601 |
Valley and Mountain |
The valley floor crawls with streets |
Michigan Quarterly |
1969 |
mountains, transcendence |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 13, Snake in the Strawberries 70. |
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602 |
Veteran's Day |
How thankful they should be, |
Des Moines Register |
1976 |
war, innocence |
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Snake in the Strawberries 65. |
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603 |
View by View |
Poplars mark the limit of the yard |
New York Times |
1969 |
love, secrecy |
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Snake in the Strawberries 49. |
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604 |
Vigilance |
Rocks grow expensive |
Kansas City Magazine |
1960 |
farming, nature |
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605 |
The Vine |
His wife and young son in his heart, the future riding his shoulders |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
farming, nature |
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The Sun at Noon 14, Man and His Field 39, Snake in the Strawberries 18. |
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606 |
Virgin Prairie |
This old squaw of a prairie |
South Dakota Review |
1974 |
Indians, reflection |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 28, Snake in the Strawberries 68, Landmark and Other Poems 46. |
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607 |
Virtue of Logic |
He believed in the generation |
The New Renaissance |
1978 |
reason, argument |
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608 |
The Visit |
The little world of the garden bare, |
Wormwood Review |
1962 |
birds, winter |
Snake in the Strawberries 33. |
Limited View 41. |
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609 |
The Visitor |
In the heat of the afternoon |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
farming, ownership |
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Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 62. |
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610 |
Voices |
The restless sea is calling, and I would be away |
Good Housekeeping |
1924 |
longing, restriction |
All the Silver Pennies. Ed. Blanche Jennings Thompson. New York: MacMillan (1967) 128. |
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611 |
Waiting |
Waiting is not patience |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
frustration, fishing |
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Dry Leaves. |
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612 |
The Wall |
A door builds a strange wall |
Kansas Quarterly |
1976 |
perspective, home |
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Proved by Trial 16. |
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613 |
Walls |
My terrace wall dropped |
Yankee Magazine |
1982 |
ownership, division |
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614 |
Warm-Eyed Memory |
While I wait for my next student |
Sou'wester Literary Quarterly |
1968 |
birds, memory |
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615 |
The Warning Cry |
The warning cry of wild geese from cold and cloudy roads |
Country Men |
1937 |
spring, renewal |
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616 |
The Wasted Corner |
She was a higglety, pigglety hen |
Wormwood Review |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 27, Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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617 |
The Waster |
The stalks still stand erect and the tassels wave, |
Kansas City Magazine |
1961 |
animals, farming |
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Limited View 37, Landmark and Other Poems 54. |
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618 |
A Way by Water |
In the basement this morning |
Colorado Quarterly |
1978 |
water, animals |
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|
|
619 |
The Way It Is |
Prepare the ground, I told her, |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
gardening, gender |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 18. |
Snake in the Strawberries 80. |
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620 |
The Way the Light Shines |
The shrill singing of cicada |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
aging, friendship |
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|
621 |
A Way to Measure |
How stupid to try to measure |
Cottonwood Review |
1968 |
time, memory |
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|
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622 |
We All Bear the Mark |
The mark of Cain is hard to spot |
Rendezvous |
1967 |
sin, judgement |
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623 |
We Ought to Burst into Bloom |
This morning my wife bought me |
America |
1981 |
spring, appreciation |
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624 |
Wealth of News |
A mile of main road and |
A Country Man |
1993 |
childhood, animals |
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A Country Man 45. |
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625 |
Weather Wise |
The wind might be telling a lie |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
weather, seasons |
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Planting Red Geraniums 18 |
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