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251 |
Weed Solitude |
Machines worn out, embalmed in rust, |
Kansas City Magazine |
1960 |
machines, decay |
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Limited View 8, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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252 |
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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253 |
The Waster |
The stalks still stand erect and the tassels wave, |
Kansas City Magazine |
1961 |
animals, farming |
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Limited View 37, Landmark and Other Poems 54. |
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254 |
Time to Act |
At last the revelation, a brisk wind peels |
Kansas City Magazine |
1959 |
spring, anticipation |
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255 |
Vigilance |
Rocks grow expensive |
Kansas City Magazine |
1960 |
farming, nature |
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256 |
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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257 |
An Evasive Fellow |
Lust worries the |
Jump River Review |
1981 |
lust, evasiveness |
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258 |
The Molehill |
The molehill became a mountain |
Journal of Arts and Letters |
1967 |
argument, marriage |
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259 |
To a Loquacious Friend |
Either you bleat like a moth-eaten |
Iowa State Liquor Store |
1970 |
language, nature |
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260 |
Weltschmerz |
Saturday, late November sunshine |
Iowa State Liquor Store |
1971 |
Depression, November |
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261 |
Discarded |
I tried to open a drawer in |
Iowa State Liquor Store |
1970 |
love, memory |
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Snake in the Strawberries 51. |
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262 |
My Father's Care |
The binder glittered in the sun, |
Iowa English Yearbook |
1961 |
farming, aging |
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Limited View 32, Landmark and Other Poems 11. |
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263 |
The Well |
By accident one day I found a well, |
Iowa English Yearbook |
1961 |
water, restoration |
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Limited View 40. |
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264 |
The Barn |
It was like a house but larger and not so tame, |
Instructor |
1959 |
farming, imagination |
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265 |
First Signs |
Today the wind trudged in from the south |
Instructor |
1960 |
spring, weather |
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Limited View 34, Landmark and Other Poems 35. |
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266 |
Caveat Emptor |
I meant to take a quiet walk |
Inserat Groteski |
1971 |
ownership, wilderness |
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267 |
Beauty |
I stayed in the field though the rain was beginning to fall |
Independent |
1927 |
rain, drought |
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268 |
Summer Rain |
I stayed in the field though the rain was |
Independent |
1927 |
rain, drought |
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Country Men (1937) xxxii, (1938) 54, (1943) 61. |
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269 |
Protest |
Now as imperceptibly |
Independent |
1926 |
time, aging |
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Country Men (1937) xxxviii, (1938) 61, (1943) 69, Man and His Field 71, Snake in the Strawberries 16. |
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270 |
Dead Crows |
Early in the morning two crow abandoned wing |
Hinterland |
1936 |
death, aging |
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Country Men (1937) xi, (1938) 27, (1943) 37. |
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271 |
Retired |
He sulks in his garden, |
Hika |
1966 |
Depression, retirement |
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272 |
The Isle of the Setting Sun |
Sailorman, Sailorman, by the dark water, |
Heacock's |
1924 |
beauty, longing |
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273 |
Sad, the Way It Is |
Stay, stay, pussy willow pussies, |
Green Magazine |
1975 |
time, impermanence |
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274 |
Wither Away, Friend |
An ill-matched pair |
Grain |
1982 |
marriage, argument |
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275 |
Late Spring |
I tried to sow the oats and grass this year |
Furioso |
1951 |
farming, drought |
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Man and His Field 66, Landmark and Other Poems 53. |
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