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551 |
Liberated by Generosity |
Today was a turning point |
America |
1981 |
frugality, generosity |
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552 |
Time to Cross Over |
A black man with his family |
Slackwater Review |
1981 |
attitudes, race |
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553 |
Love is Not Earned |
A display of my skills |
Northeast |
1981 |
love, skill |
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554 |
Kelly's Woods |
Kelly’s Woods—our picnic grounds |
Time Like a Furrow: Essays |
1981 |
family, childhood |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 40-42. |
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555 |
We Ought to Burst into Bloom |
This morning my wife bought me |
America |
1981 |
spring, appreciation |
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556 |
Witnesses |
The orchard basks in |
South Dakota Review |
1982 |
fall, wilderness |
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557 |
Now I Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
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1982 |
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558 |
This Is the Way It Seems |
The first of the month the mail |
English Journal |
1982 |
money, routine |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 44. |
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559 |
Only Flowers Seem Not to Die |
On our May Day anniversary |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
flowers, loss |
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560 |
What's Time to a Hog? |
Today a man asked me |
Nebraska Review |
1982 |
time, mortality |
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561 |
After Snowfall |
Sky smooth as a country |
New Jersey Poetry Journal |
1982 |
winter, farming |
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562 |
Photograph |
A photograph taken from |
The Davidson Miscellany |
1982 |
appearances, smoking |
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563 |
Now Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
religion, marriage |
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564 |
Alms to the Giver |
The mail this morning made me |
The Davidson Miscellany |
1982 |
greed, deception |
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565 |
Resolution |
Strokes took off the big tree's top |
after Ward Bib. |
1982 |
work |
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566 |
A Balance Sheet |
From my father's family I inherit |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
family, habit |
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567 |
Shelter under Glass |
The seventh grade came to visit |
New Letters |
1982 |
children, appreciation |
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568 |
Double Talk |
The exercises we schedule |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
duality, survival |
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569 |
Sign-Directed |
I was born under the sign |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
birth, superstition |
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570 |
Let It Shine |
The guy who hides his light |
Wormwood Review |
1982 |
confidence, religion |
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571 |
Taking the Bull to Water |
The herd bull leaves his stall |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
animals, danger |
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572 |
Missed Fortune |
Late for our dates, |
Boston Monthly |
1982 |
superstition, opportunity |
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573 |
Walls |
My terrace wall dropped |
Yankee Magazine |
1982 |
ownership, division |
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574 |
No Advice Today, Thank You |
Why, the presumptuous bastard |
Kansas Quarterly |
1982 |
religion, relationships |
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575 |
The Weed Cutter |
Earth soaked by a thunderstorm |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
adolescence, farming |
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