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176 |
Need For Magic |
After a lonely night and an empty day |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
loss, longing |
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Snake in the Strawberries 11. |
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177 |
Outsider |
The field stretches from morning |
America |
1979 |
plowing, nature |
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178 |
Here and There |
It's true the days are longer, |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
spring, despair |
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Snake in the Strawberries 47. |
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179 |
Apparition in the Afternoon |
The telephone lies in its incubator. |
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1979 |
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180 |
No Symbols |
The barn's warm breath |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
birth, meaning |
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Snake in the Strawberries 12. |
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181 |
Pause between Clock Ticks |
Like a caught breath |
Yankee Magazine |
1979 |
decisions, stillness |
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182 |
Something Not Tamed in Us |
Early this winter morning |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
birds, charity |
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Snake in the Strawberries 4. |
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183 |
The Backward Flow |
A man bent with the burden |
University of Windsor Review |
1979 |
aging, fall |
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184 |
An Account of Failures |
I woke this morning and felt |
West Branch |
1979 |
regret, perseverance |
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185 |
Retirement Blues |
Neither anger nor reproach will |
Poetry View |
1979 |
aging, life |
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186 |
Retirement Time Is the Time to Retire |
About twilight, swallows stitched |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
retirement, aging |
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Snake in the Strawberries 5. |
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187 |
Death of a Marriage |
They reached home, |
Black and White |
1979 |
divorce, silence |
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188 |
A Shabby Day |
Out of doors, office-bound, |
Black and White |
1979 |
cities, community |
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189 |
Women Shearing Men |
The wind whistles a bawdy tune, |
Canadian Forum |
1979 |
control, animals |
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Snake in the Strawberries 97. |
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190 |
To Build a Fence |
We stretch a barbed wire from corner post |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
fences, labor |
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Snake in the Strawberries 6. |
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191 |
Do People Care for People? |
Appetites in the barnyard bawled |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
compassion, civilization |
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192 |
Shove It, Brother, Shove It |
From bedroom to bathroom to |
North American Review |
1979 |
optimism, disability |
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193 |
Grandfather and the Evangelist |
A tent with a platform and with folding chairs, |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
religion, experience |
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Snake in the Strawberries 6. |
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194 |
Hang On to the Grab Bar |
Caught in the revolving door |
Kansas Quarterly |
1979 |
longing, civilization |
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195 |
Sauce for the Gander |
The last person to bed starts the |
Cedar Arts Forum |
1978 |
marriage, night |
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196 |
Change in Appetites |
We had a hired man whose remarks |
South Dakota Review |
1978 |
sex, animals |
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197 |
Bereaved |
Granted, a meeting with her, |
The American Scholar |
1978 |
death, grief |
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Snake in the Strawberries 98. |
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198 |
On Guard |
The sun protects my back |
Tinderbox |
1978 |
morning, fear |
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199 |
A Disowner |
Not my world today |
Event: Journal of Contemporary Art |
1978 |
integrity, alienation |
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Snake in the Strawberries 99. |
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200 |
The Inevitable Words like Signposts |
The morning's paper carried a story |
Ohio Review |
1978 |
death, friendship |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 22, Ohio Review 30 (1983) 252. |
Snake in the Strawberries 100. |
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