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201 |
A Field You Cannot Own |
You thought there was a For Sale sign |
Wormwood Review |
1972 |
love, rejection |
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202 |
Expression of a Homeplace |
If I close one eye |
A Country Man |
1993 |
perceptions, birds |
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A Country Man 35. |
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203 |
Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) |
Fresh from the slow hills of Iowa |
Ladies Home Journal |
1962 |
welcoming, Mexico |
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Limited View 12. |
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204 |
Tired of Earth |
Wind bites dust from the furrows |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1962 |
farming, death |
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Limited View 14, Late Harvest 72. |
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205 |
Melancholy at Night |
Each evening at bedtime |
Poetry View |
1980 |
death, loss |
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206 |
The Flower |
The afternoon bent over |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
love, flowers |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 15. |
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207 |
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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208 |
A Show of Compassion |
The man at her table frowned |
A Country Man |
1993 |
work, compassion |
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A Country Man 26. |
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209 |
The Captain Ashore |
I know a man whose twisted wife |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
greed, respect |
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210 |
Statement |
It doesn't matter what the critics say, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, critics |
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Man and His Field 19, Snake in the Strawberries 24, The Good Earth 56, Selected Poems 9. |
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211 |
Mr. Norris and the Civet Cat |
We four boys liked to fish |
Maine Life |
1981 |
compassion, animals |
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212 |
Pray for Belief |
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Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
faith, perspective |
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Planting Red Geraniums 30. |
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213 |
Harvest Claim |
The clover field in bloom seemed innocent |
Kansas City Star |
1957 |
seasons, harvest |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 60, Snake in the Strawberries 67. |
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214 |
Common Ground |
Two neighbors lived across a road |
Kansas City Magazine |
1965 |
neighbors, farming |
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A Single Focus 28. |
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215 |
Pride in Love |
The neighbors laugh up their sleeve |
Poet Lore |
1971 |
flowers, love |
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216 |
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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217 |
Double Talk |
The exercises we schedule |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
duality, survival |
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218 |
Sauce for the Gander |
The last person to bed starts the |
Cedar Arts Forum |
1978 |
marriage, night |
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219 |
Point of No Return |
Grass in the cracks of the sidewalk, |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
memory, decay |
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Dry Leaves. |
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220 |
Whatever Happened |
When I was young I discovered |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
reading, conformity |
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Snake in the Strawberries 82, The Good Earth 68. |
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221 |
Seeding |
The morning sun looks in on me |
Midland |
1932 |
farming, planting |
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Country Men (1937) xxii, (1938) 44 (1943) 51, Man and His Field 45. |
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222 |
Change in Appetites |
We had a hired man whose remarks |
South Dakota Review |
1978 |
sex, animals |
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223 |
Resort to Calm |
No protest, just the door's soft sigh, |
Prairie Schooner |
1970 |
relaxation, neighbors |
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Snake in the Strawberries 50. |
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224 |
Witnesses |
The orchard basks in |
South Dakota Review |
1982 |
fall, wilderness |
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225 |
Time of Contrition |
Today I saw the gossip pack |
Denver Post |
1959 |
gossip, regret |
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