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76 |
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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77 |
Time Like a Hand |
The hardware merchant reaches back for the past |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
aging, alienation |
North American Review (1974) 35. |
The Sun at Noon 22, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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78 |
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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79 |
Alien |
The winter trees replied |
Harper's Bazaar |
1970 |
winter, solitude |
Voyages to the Inland Sea II 44. |
Proved by Trial 18, Snake in the Strawberries 55. |
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80 |
After Chores |
Close down, Night |
American Prefaces |
1935 |
chores, sleep |
American Prefaces 5 (June 1940) 169. |
Country Men (1937) xxxvii, (1938) 58, (1943) 66, Man and His Field 48, Snake in the Strawberries 26 |
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A Matter of Fact |
All through the summer I failed to wring truth out of words, |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1961 |
birds, truth |
Poet Lore 71 (Winter 1976-77) 128. |
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82 |
Silver Maples |
Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies |
Wallace's Farmer |
1939 |
farming, nature |
North American Review |
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83 |
March Mourning |
The late snow is a fungus |
Wallace's Farmer |
1939 |
snow, death |
Man and His Field |
Man and His Field 57. |
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84 |
Threat of Violence |
Icicles dripped in the |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
animals, violence |
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The Good Earth 65 |
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85 |
What Time Is It Anyway? |
You can't win 'em all, |
Focus |
1984 |
work, alienation |
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86 |
Storm Bound |
Whipped by the blizzard I fled |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
winter, birds |
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87 |
The Storm |
A storm struck down the old willow |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
weather, imagination |
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A Single Focus 62, Landmark and Other Poems 31. |
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88 |
Small Thorns |
The odor from garbage my neighbor |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
neighbors, annoyance |
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89 |
The Maid who Served an Ogre |
She washed the dishes, cleaned the sink, |
Periodical of Art in Nebraska |
1976 |
desire, danger |
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90 |
Moment Toward Spring |
This is the day when on the hills of noon |
Ladies Home Journal |
1959 |
spring, transition |
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Limited View 13, Snake in the Strawberries 29. |
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91 |
To Build a Fence |
We stretch a barbed wire from corner post |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
fences, labor |
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Snake in the Strawberries 6. |
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92 |
The Call |
The call burst into the room |
Cardinal Poetry Quarterly |
1968 |
birds, destruction |
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93 |
Queer People |
Queer people eat soup |
Erebus Rising |
1971 |
compassion, nonconformity |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 41, Landmark and Other Poems 16. |
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94 |
Mind-Boggled |
His mind bent with the weight |
A Country Man |
1993 |
religion, uncertainty |
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A Country Man 39. |
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95 |
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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96 |
Weather Words |
The garden waited to be covered, |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
gardening, winter |
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97 |
Time's Laggard |
The house of summer closed its doors. |
The Saturday Evening Post |
1960 |
winter, stubbornness |
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98 |
Choosing |
The stolid farmer took his hoe |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
farming, choice |
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The Sun at Noon 18, Landmark and Other Poems 50, Man and His Field 33. |
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99 |
How Many Shadows Has a Man |
The dog looked into the water |
Country Men |
1943 |
experience, knowledge |
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100 |
Where Did They Go? |
Where did they go, the maple grove, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
time, memory |
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A Country Man 46. |
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