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526 |
Subscription to Salvation |
What do you know, |
Wormwood Review |
1981 |
religion, solicitation |
|
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|
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527 |
The Wasted Corner |
She was a higglety, pigglety hen |
Wormwood Review |
1963 |
farming, animals |
|
A Single Focus 27, Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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528 |
Do People Care for People? |
Appetites in the barnyard bawled |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
compassion, civilization |
|
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|
|
529 |
Metamorphosis |
I starved for the honey you |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
nature, insects |
|
A Single Focus 17. |
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|
530 |
Fact |
I knew a man once who gave up the ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
life, suicide |
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Man and His Field 39, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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|
531 |
Threat of Weather |
We know we can outlast the weather |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, weather |
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Man and His Field 57, Snake in the Strawberries 25. |
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532 |
All Anyone Could Say |
The children that we love are busy people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
children, exploration |
|
Man and His Field 58. |
|
|
533 |
Fog |
Waves of the sea's ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
weather, defamiliarization |
North American Review 299.2 (Spring 2014) 26. |
Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 36. |
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|
534 |
Statement |
It doesn't matter what the critics say, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, critics |
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Man and His Field 19, Snake in the Strawberries 24, The Good Earth 56, Selected Poems 9. |
|
|
535 |
No Leaves? No Apples? |
No fruit bends the orchard trees |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
fall, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 59. |
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|
536 |
For A Neighbor Woman |
Early this morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, gardening |
|
Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 10. |
|
|
537 |
The Debtor |
These leaden days when the sky is overcast |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
farming, debt |
|
Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 39. |
|
|
538 |
Three Old Horses |
Returning to the gate at close of day |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
wisdom, animals |
|
Man and His Field 24. |
|
|
539 |
Analogy |
It's like digging all day at a buried stone |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, introspection |
|
Man and His Field 60. |
|
|
540 |
The Orchard Man |
Grandfather came from a town meeting country, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
family, perseverance |
|
Man and His Field 25. |
|
|
541 |
Construction |
The hammer voices went on an on |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
labor, winter |
|
Man and His Field 62. |
|
|
542 |
Burning a Dead Heifer |
This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, animals |
|
Man and His Field 63. |
|
|
543 |
The Return |
Shot from cannon-barrelled wind the sleet |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
memory, technology |
|
Man and His Field 32, Landmark and Other Poems 51 (as "The Magic Lantern"). |
|
|
544 |
The Harvesters |
Bright was the stubble, the sun that day |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, work |
|
Man and His Field 63. |
|
|
545 |
The Advantage |
Three haystacks stood against the wind, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
winter, chores |
|
Man and His Field 65. |
|
|
546 |
Accident |
The iron teeth of the harrow |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
birds, destruction |
|
Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 48, Snake in the Strawberries 24. |
|
|
547 |
The Deacon Goes for His Sunday Paper |
Good morning, good morning, it is a good morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
happiness, disappointment |
|
Man and His Field 67. |
|
|
548 |
What Was That? |
Never was so much hubbub in the morning, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
work, farming |
|
Man and His Field 41. |
|
|
549 |
Point of View |
After a dark day low with clouds, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
sunset, perspective |
|
Man and His Field 43. |
|
|
550 |
Memorial Day |
It puzzles me to see the stooping people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
flowers, death |
|
Man and His Field 51, Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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