|
576 |
It Never Went Away |
In daytime the cellar seemed safe, |
New River Review |
1977 |
night, fear |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 91. |
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|
577 |
November |
The sun dripped honey-colored days |
Ladies Home Journal |
1965 |
fall, harvest |
|
A Single Focus 71, Landmark and Other Poems 32. |
|
|
578 |
High Winds and Low Pressures |
The sun backs through a cloud, |
America |
1975 |
breakfast, weather |
|
|
|
|
579 |
Abandoned Orchard |
These weathered trees |
Poetry Now |
1984 |
decay, perseverance |
|
|
|
|
580 |
Judgement by Spring Rain |
Some snarl faced poet |
Yankee Magazine |
1973 |
seasons, aging |
|
Proved by Trial 7, Snake in the Strawberries 94. |
|
|
581 |
No News is Good News |
Having read the same names in the paper |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
community, significance |
|
|
|
|
582 |
Do People Care for People? |
Appetites in the barnyard bawled |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
compassion, civilization |
|
|
|
|
583 |
The Shadow |
I have seen the butcher's shadow |
Chicago Jewish Forum |
1959 |
animals, slaughter |
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Limited View 4, Snake in the Strawberries 29. |
|
|
584 |
A Way by Water |
In the basement this morning |
Colorado Quarterly |
1978 |
water, animals |
|
|
|
|
585 |
Day's Facts |
There came a morning when |
Prairie Schooner |
1970 |
technology, breakdown |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 37. |
|
|
586 |
Benchmark of Plunder |
We needed an onion, the row |
A Country Man |
1993 |
theft, exchange |
|
A Country Man 25. |
|
|
587 |
Susanna and the Elders |
Let us put thought aside |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
innocence, secrecy |
|
Proved by Trial 21, Snake in the Strawberries 83. |
|
|
588 |
Advice to Farmers |
You trimmed the wilderness to size |
Sparrow Magazine |
1961 |
farming, nature |
|
|
|
|
589 |
Castrating the Pigs |
It always seemed to be a rainy day |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
animals, masculinity |
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|
|
|
590 |
The Waster |
The stalks still stand erect and the tassels wave, |
Kansas City Magazine |
1961 |
animals, farming |
|
Limited View 37, Landmark and Other Poems 54. |
|
|
591 |
The Gift for Love |
Underbrush, grasses, weeds, |
Eidolons |
1972 |
wilderness, order |
|
|
|
|
592 |
Praise |
When I forced the fat land with seed |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
farming, nature |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 55, Landmark and Other Poems 57 (as "Now I Am Free"). |
|
|
593 |
March Mourning |
The late snow is a fungus |
Wallace's Farmer |
1939 |
snow, death |
Man and His Field |
Man and His Field 57. |
|
|
594 |
Silver Maples |
Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies |
Wallace's Farmer |
1939 |
farming, nature |
North American Review |
|
|
|
595 |
A Matter of Fact |
All through the summer I failed to wring truth out of words, |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1961 |
birds, truth |
Poet Lore 71 (Winter 1976-77) 128. |
|
|
|
596 |
After Chores |
Close down, Night |
American Prefaces |
1935 |
chores, sleep |
American Prefaces 5 (June 1940) 169. |
Country Men (1937) xxxvii, (1938) 58, (1943) 66, Man and His Field 48, Snake in the Strawberries 26 |
|
|
597 |
Alien |
The winter trees replied |
Harper's Bazaar |
1970 |
winter, solitude |
Voyages to the Inland Sea II 44. |
Proved by Trial 18, Snake in the Strawberries 55. |
|
|
598 |
Time Like a Hand |
The hardware merchant reaches back for the past |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
aging, alienation |
North American Review (1974) 35. |
The Sun at Noon 22, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
|
|
599 |
Apple Harvest |
The wind knocks on my door |
Bitterroot |
1965 |
fall, mortality |
North American Review (1974) 35. |
A Single Focus 68, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
|
|
600 |
Beggared |
The quietness with which I watch you go |
Limited View |
1962 |
loss, loneliness |
Scatter the Petals (1969). |
Limited View 24. |
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