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526 |
Subscription to Salvation |
What do you know, |
Wormwood Review |
1981 |
religion, solicitation |
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527 |
Small Thorns |
The odor from garbage my neighbor |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
neighbors, annoyance |
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528 |
The Wasted Corner |
She was a higglety, pigglety hen |
Wormwood Review |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 27, Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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529 |
A Field You Cannot Own |
You thought there was a For Sale sign |
Wormwood Review |
1972 |
love, rejection |
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530 |
The Advantage |
Three haystacks stood against the wind, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
winter, chores |
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Man and His Field 65. |
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531 |
Accident |
The iron teeth of the harrow |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
birds, destruction |
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Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 48, Snake in the Strawberries 24. |
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532 |
The Deacon Goes for His Sunday Paper |
Good morning, good morning, it is a good morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
happiness, disappointment |
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Man and His Field 67. |
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533 |
What Was That? |
Never was so much hubbub in the morning, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
work, farming |
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Man and His Field 41. |
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534 |
Point of View |
After a dark day low with clouds, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
sunset, perspective |
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Man and His Field 43. |
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535 |
Memorial Day |
It puzzles me to see the stooping people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
flowers, death |
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Man and His Field 51, Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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536 |
Impudence |
Rowdy winter wind, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
wind, winter |
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Man and His Field 52. |
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537 |
Crow's Impatience |
After the hay was made and the threshing done, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, birds |
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Man and His Field 37, Landmark and Other Poems 48. |
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538 |
The Thief |
The fists of the summer sun |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
weather, seasons |
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Man and His Field 52. |
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539 |
The Great Coincidence |
How strange that in the human flow, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, chance |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 80. |
Man and His Field 53. |
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540 |
Fact |
I knew a man once who gave up the ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
life, suicide |
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Man and His Field 39, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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541 |
Threat of Weather |
We know we can outlast the weather |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, weather |
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Man and His Field 57, Snake in the Strawberries 25. |
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542 |
Fog |
Waves of the sea's ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
weather, defamiliarization |
North American Review 299.2 (Spring 2014) 26. |
Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 36. |
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543 |
All Anyone Could Say |
The children that we love are busy people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
children, exploration |
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Man and His Field 58. |
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544 |
For A Neighbor Woman |
Early this morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, gardening |
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Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 10. |
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545 |
Statement |
It doesn't matter what the critics say, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, critics |
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Man and His Field 19, Snake in the Strawberries 24, The Good Earth 56, Selected Poems 9. |
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546 |
No Leaves? No Apples? |
No fruit bends the orchard trees |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
fall, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 59. |
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547 |
The Debtor |
These leaden days when the sky is overcast |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
farming, debt |
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Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 39. |
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548 |
Three Old Horses |
Returning to the gate at close of day |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
wisdom, animals |
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Man and His Field 24. |
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549 |
Analogy |
It's like digging all day at a buried stone |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, introspection |
|
Man and His Field 60. |
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550 |
The Orchard Man |
Grandfather came from a town meeting country, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
family, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 25. |
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