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176 |
Order in the Grove |
The small grove has been let go, |
South Dakota Review |
1971 |
order, animals |
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177 |
Wish for a Season |
Today you said you would not sigh |
South Dakota Review |
1969 |
winter, longing |
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178 |
What Shall We Do? |
It is really a small matter, |
South Dakota Review |
1966 |
nonconformist, nature |
North American Review (1974) 25. |
A Single Focus 36, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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179 |
Virgin Prairie |
This old squaw of a prairie |
South Dakota Review |
1974 |
Indians, reflection |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 28, Snake in the Strawberries 68, Landmark and Other Poems 46. |
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180 |
Propped Apple Tree |
Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, farming |
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A Single Focus 22. |
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181 |
Trials of Ownership |
The title to the land's a piece of paper |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, owning |
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A Single Focus 41. |
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182 |
Love's Ways |
Almost as if you hungered to be free |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
love, desire |
Scatter the Petals (1969). |
A Single Focus 57, Landmark and Other Poems 20. |
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183 |
Forewarned |
Now when the breath of frost has chilled |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, winter |
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A Single Focus 42, Snake in the Strawberries 45. |
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184 |
The Change |
The same plowed field and |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
fall, hunting |
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A Single Focus 59. |
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185 |
Progress |
Own all the land you can get |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 44, Snake in the Strawberries 42. |
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186 |
Quarrel's Echo |
The front steps seemed not |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
relationships, sadness |
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187 |
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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188 |
Three Sides to a Farm |
So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, generations |
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A Single Focus 29, Snake in the Strawberries 38. |
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189 |
Bowed Strength |
The winter sun had set |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
winter, resilience |
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A Single Focus 64. |
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190 |
Little Bull |
The...poor...little...bull |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
animals, persistence |
North American Review (1974) 28. Out of This World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 30. |
A Single Focus 49, Landmark and Other Poems 56. |
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191 |
Intruder |
The morning flowered in |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
morning, sadness |
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A Single Focus 65, Landmark and Other Poems 25. |
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192 |
Wren in the Vervain |
Sprung from the sacred verbena family |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, birds |
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A Single Focus 14, Landmark and Other Poems 47. |
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193 |
Time's Flail |
A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, tools |
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A Single Focus 34. |
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194 |
Cold's Verdict |
Anger wraps me in a mantle of yellow |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
neighbors, winter |
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A Single Focus 49, Landmark and Other Poems 29. |
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195 |
Before Frost |
Now summer's golden bell is mute |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
seasons, harvest |
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A Single Focus 35, Snake in the Strawberries 40. |
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196 |
Love's Survival |
The blind fingertips of longing |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
summer, love |
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A Single Focus 51. |
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197 |
The New Calf |
In the basement by the furnace lies |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
animals, innocence |
North American Review (1974) 29. |
A Single Focus 70, Snake in the Strawberries 44. |
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198 |
Signed by Your Kiss |
We came too late, we found the trees |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, love |
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A Single Focus 55. |
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199 |
After the People Go |
No one lives here any more, they all have moved away |
Country Men |
1937 |
drought, nature |
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Country Men (1937) vii, (1938) 24, (1943) 34, Man and His Field 69. |
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200 |
The Hammer and the Rat |
The teetering carpenter sets his spike |
Country Men |
1943 |
distraction, inaction |
North American Review (1974) 33. |
Country Men (1943) 59. Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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