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76 |
Guarding the Fire |
The wind throws snow at the window |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
imagination, alienation |
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77 |
Good Friday |
My neighbor plants potatoes on Good Friday |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
superstition, tradition |
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The Sun at Noon 11, Landmark and Other Poems 50. |
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78 |
The Neighborhood |
The neighborhood has a mind and heart of its own |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
secrecy, community |
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The Sun at Noon 24, Snake in the Strawberries 20. |
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79 |
Free Man |
Hans Karen and debt were old friends until 1932 |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
debt, money |
North American Review (1974) 31. |
The Sun at Noon 25, Landmark and other Poems 16. |
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80 |
Spring Barnyard |
Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
animals, materiality |
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The Sun at Noon 37. |
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81 |
Stranger |
Following his father's footsteps |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
retirement, alienation |
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The Sun at Noon 26, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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82 |
The Hammer and the Rat |
The teetering carpenter sets his spike |
Country Men |
1943 |
distraction, inaction |
North American Review (1974) 33. |
Country Men (1943) 59. Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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83 |
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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84 |
Logician |
Pete Everson was called four-eyed Pete |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
infidelity, strategy |
North American Review (1974) 37. |
The Sun at Noon 27, Landmark and other Poems 16. |
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85 |
How Many Shadows Has a Man |
The dog looked into the water |
Country Men |
1943 |
experience, knowledge |
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86 |
Homesickness |
Marie Summers took a course in Commercial |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
cities, alienation |
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The Sun at Noon 28, Snake in the Strawberries 19. |
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87 |
Burn the Cocoons |
The sun waits in the sky for me |
Poetry |
1944 |
farming, planting |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 81. |
Man and His Field 47, Landmark and Other Poems 41. |
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88 |
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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89 |
All Anyone Could Say |
The children that we love are busy people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
children, exploration |
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Man and His Field 58. |
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90 |
Accident |
The iron teeth of the harrow |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
birds, destruction |
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Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 48, Snake in the Strawberries 24. |
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91 |
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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92 |
For A Neighbor Woman |
Early this morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, gardening |
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Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 10. |
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93 |
Analogy |
It's like digging all day at a buried stone |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, introspection |
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Man and His Field 60. |
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94 |
What Was That? |
Never was so much hubbub in the morning, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
work, farming |
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Man and His Field 41. |
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95 |
Construction |
The hammer voices went on an on |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
labor, winter |
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Man and His Field 62. |
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96 |
Point of View |
After a dark day low with clouds, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
sunset, perspective |
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Man and His Field 43. |
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97 |
Burning a Dead Heifer |
This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, animals |
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Man and His Field 63. |
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98 |
Memorial Day |
It puzzles me to see the stooping people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
flowers, death |
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Man and His Field 51, Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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99 |
The Harvesters |
Bright was the stubble, the sun that day |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, work |
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Man and His Field 63. |
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100 |
Impudence |
Rowdy winter wind, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
wind, winter |
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Man and His Field 52. |
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