Title First Line Original Citation
The Young Old-Timer "His hands seek each other under his overall bib"

Wallace's Farmer. 24 September 1938. p. 6.

Winter Solstice "This is the final day" Country Men (1938) 57.
March Mourning "The late snow is a fungus" Wallace's Farmer. 11 March 1939. p. 6.
On Relief "Our glances met as glances meet"

Common Sense (Feb. 1939) 26.

Silver Maples "Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies" Wallace's Farmer, 22 April 1939, pp. 15.
Spring West of Town "A man who lives inside my head" Kernels (March-April 1939) 3.
After the Son Died "The trees follow two sides of a square"

Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 262.

Boundary Lines "The dog has a squirrel up a tree."

American Prefaces, 6 (Autumn 1940) 43.

False Warning "The meadow has lost its features and the grove"

Poetry (56 Aug. 1940) 261.

Meeting a Pheasant Hunter in Our Grove "The bush’s shape has been bent by the wind" American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 44.