201 |
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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202 |
Love in Autumn |
Do you remember the meadow |
America |
1965 |
love, fall |
Scatter the Petals. (1969) |
A Single Focus 63, Snake in the Strawberries 36. |
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203 |
The Farmer's Season |
Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season, |
America |
1965 |
spring, farming |
"Book Review," Wallace's Farmer (28 Oct. 1967) 3, North American Review (1974) 34, Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 5. |
A Single Focus 3, Landmark and Other's Poems 56. |
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204 |
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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205 |
For God's Sake |
Why don't you clean up your place, |
Penny Poems From Midwestern University |
1965 |
garden, decay |
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Proved by Trial 19, Landmark and Other Poems 21. |
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206 |
Close the Accounts |
The putting away time shows up |
Commonweal |
1965 |
farming, fall |
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A Single Focus 19, Snake in the Strawberries 44, Landmark and Other Poems 37. |
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207 |
A Place to Sit |
Come in, come in, Neighbor, please come in |
New Frontiers |
1965 |
hardship, resentment |
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A Single Focus 31, Landmark and Other Poems 12. |
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208 |
Wilderness Ways |
The rabbit knows why the hawk is there |
Commonweal |
1965 |
wilderness, animals |
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A Single Focus 20, Snake in the Strawberries 42. |
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209 |
Cold Snap |
The winter night in your face |
Kansas City Magazine |
1965 |
winter, music |
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A Single Focus 56. |
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210 |
Shortcut |
A shortcut, so we said, a different road, |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
countryside, lost |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 35. |
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211 |
Apple Harvest |
The wind knocks on my door |
Bitterroot |
1965 |
fall, mortality |
North American Review (1974) 35. |
A Single Focus 68, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
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212 |
Hen Pheasant |
Dusk fills the grove and seeps |
Poetry |
1965 |
farming, birds |
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A Single Focus 23. |
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213 |
Undertow |
The bay of morning shines through |
Seven |
1965 |
writing, distraction |
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A Single Focus 58, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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214 |
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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215 |
Behind the Stove |
It takes more than wind and sleet to |
Poetry |
1965 |
affair, desire |
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A Single Focus 48, Landmark and Other Poems 11. |
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216 |
Retired |
He sulks in his garden, |
Hika |
1966 |
Depression, retirement |
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217 |
Line Between Seasons |
The rollicking whinny of the wind |
Quartet |
1966 |
nature, winter |
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A Single Focus 25, Snake in the Strawberries 41. |
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218 |
The Meeting |
This is the curb where |
Motive |
1966 |
love, loss |
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A Single Focus 60, Landmark and Other Poems 23. |
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219 |
Words of a Season |
Bundled in scarfs the kids ride their bikes |
Epoch |
1966 |
seasons, transitions |
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A Single Focus 15, Landmark and Other Poems 30. |
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220 |
Tornado |
The cornfield felt a need to write |
Etc. A Review of General Semantics |
1966 |
weather, order |
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221 |
Metamorphosis |
I starved for the honey you |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
nature, insects |
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A Single Focus 17. |
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222 |
Out of Bounds |
Black asphalt abides between unbroken curbs of cement, |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
cities, gardening |
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223 |
Day's Routine |
A day of simple duties |
Today |
1966 |
work, marriage |
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Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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224 |
Potencies |
Earth, sun-plowed, rain-swept, trembles |
Commonweal |
1966 |
farming, diligence |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 27, Snake in the Strawberries 73. |
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225 |
Elegy |
Listen, my friend, shuttered in |
Today |
1966 |
spring, isolation |
Annals of Iowa 42 (Spring 1974) 294, Late Harvest 76. |
A Single Focus 66, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
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