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Evergreen Transformations |
‘‘Who knocks on my door?’’ asks History |
The Alumnus |
1976 |
education, truth |
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Dulled Appetite |
Your letter today |
A Country Man |
1993 |
friendship, impermanence |
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A Country Man 50. |
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Now I Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
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1982 |
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Now Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
religion, marriage |
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On Vacation |
Your five days of driving |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
vacation, alienation |
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Men Give More Than Promises |
You'd let me walk barefoot on |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
revenge, masculinity |
North American Review (1974) 29. |
A Single Focus 47, Snake in the Strawberries 35. |
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Advice to Farmers |
You trimmed the wilderness to size |
Sparrow Magazine |
1961 |
farming, nature |
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A Field You Cannot Own |
You thought there was a For Sale sign |
Wormwood Review |
1972 |
love, rejection |
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Not for Sale |
You thought a dollar sign imaged |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
love, money |
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And Some Seed Fell |
You think because you own the ground |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
farming, knowledge |
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The Smile |
You smiled and waved as you drove |
Ladies Home Journal |
1970 |
observation, expression |
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Surprise [1] |
You seemed brave but lost in the ambush of clover, |
The Humanist |
1957 |
love, betrayal |
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Limited View 22, Landmark and Other Poems 23. |
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Leaves Like Tears |
You say the leaves fall |
Midwest Quarterly |
1969 |
grief, winter |
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Plea for Single Focus |
You saw double today when you said you saw the wind |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
nature, farming |
Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 364, North American Review (1974) 21. |
A Single Focus 53, Snake in the Strawberries 40. |
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Forsythia |
You said, take a few dry |
Poetry |
1965 |
flowers, surprise |
North American Review (1974) 31, The Iowan (Spring 1979) 20. |
A Single Focus 13, Snake in the Strawberries 36, The Good Earth 61. |
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Deaf Ear |
You said you would come and |
Chicago Tribune Magazine |
1970 |
happiness, promise |
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Time to Go In |
You poke the fire in the fireplace, |
America |
1983 |
night, meaning |
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Shaped by Names |
You must exist somewhere |
Canadian Forum |
1977 |
language, meaning |
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Snake in the Strawberries 95. |
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The Contract |
You may have my garden if you will give to me |
Midland |
1926 |
gardening, apples |
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Country Men (1937) xxxiii, (1938) 55. |
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Sharers |
You grieved so for a rosebush |
Ladies Home Journal |
1971 |
flowers, loss |
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Snake in the Strawberries 52. |
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Come Back, Come Back |
You emptied the house |
Windless Orchard II |
1972 |
loss, loneliness |
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A Return to Facts |
You check out the office |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
renewal, retirement |
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Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 63. |
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The Hunter |
You cannot kill the white-tailed deer |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
hunting, persistence |
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A Single Focus 69, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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What Time Is It Anyway? |
You can't win 'em all, |
Focus |
1984 |
work, alienation |
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The Experiment |
You came and found me when the stars were blowing |
Midland |
1926 |
fire |
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Country Men (1937) xxii, (1938) 43, (1943) 50, Man and His Field 35. |
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