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376 |
High Winds and Low Pressures |
The sun backs through a cloud, |
America |
1975 |
breakfast, weather |
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377 |
Chill Comfort |
The sun rose, burned off the mist, |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
breakfast, loneliness |
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Proved by Trial 17. |
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378 |
A Prejudiced Witness |
This morning my wife and I |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
birds, marriage |
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Dry Leaves, Landmark and Other Poems 20. |
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379 |
Plea for Persistence |
Wait and begin again, |
Periodical of Art in Nebraska |
1975 |
persistence, knowledge |
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380 |
The Visitor |
In the heat of the afternoon |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
farming, ownership |
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Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 62. |
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381 |
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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382 |
Outlived by Time |
The empty hearse skimmed away |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
death, funeral |
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Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 62. |
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383 |
Self-Portrait |
The mirror lacks depth, |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
reflection, aging |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 53, Snake in the Strawberries 66. |
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384 |
University |
Morning light throws a wreath |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
university, summer |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 26, Snake in the Strawberries 70. |
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385 |
Waiting |
Waiting is not patience |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
frustration, fishing |
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Dry Leaves. |
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386 |
Home Work |
Today is cleaning day in the pens |
The Ghent Quarterly |
1975 |
work, animals |
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387 |
Day After Day |
The baby cries in its crib |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
insecurity, despair |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 18, Snake in the Strawberries 75. |
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388 |
Wedding Anniversary |
A frightening day |
Sunday Clothes |
1975 |
farming, anger |
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Proved by Trial 11. |
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389 |
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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390 |
Too Many Defeats Dull the Spirit |
The worst was |
Poetry Now |
1975 |
farming, weather |
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Proved by Trial 12, Snake in the Strawberries 92. |
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391 |
Sad, the Way It Is |
Stay, stay, pussy willow pussies, |
Green Magazine |
1975 |
time, impermanence |
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392 |
The Groundhog |
Scooped from his winter nest |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
faith, animals |
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Dry Leaves. |
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393 |
Each to Its Own Purpose |
They said, don't use words |
Yankee Magazine |
1975 |
poetry, language |
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Proved by Trial 13, Snake in the Strawberries 94. |
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394 |
Portrait of an Old Horse |
I wonder what shaggy thoughts |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
aging, animals |
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Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 61. |
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395 |
The Snapshot |
There we four sit, quick perched as sparrows on a wire, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
memory, holiday |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 15, Christmas in Iowa. Ed. Clarence Andrews. Iowa City: Midwest Heritage Publishing Co. (1979) 66. |
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396 |
Keep the Storm Outside |
Rain patters on my roof |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
weather, reflection |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 33, Landmark and Other Poems 34. |
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397 |
Wonder of Hummingbirds |
Glass cells of red syrup hang |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
birds, amazement |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 68, Landmark and Other Poems 24 (variant). |
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398 |
Landscape—Iowa |
No one who lives here |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
land, people |
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Snake in the Strawberries 67, The Good Earth 63., Selected Poems 10 |
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399 |
Short Cut |
A short cut, so we said, a different road, |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
roaming, countryside |
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400 |
Take This Guy |
Now take this guy next door, |
The New Renaissance |
1976 |
argument, jealousy |
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