51 |
Ape in My Heart |
Lust stinks in my nostrils |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
shame, lust |
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Planting Red Geraniums 21 |
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Apparition in the Afternoon |
The telephone lies in its incubator. |
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1979 |
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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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Around the Bend |
Around the bend the water stills, |
Outdoor America |
1926 |
fishing, perseverance |
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Arrogance of Things |
The growth of the cornfield today |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
death, materiality |
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Snake in the Strawberries 8. |
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At Least on the Surface |
People who live in neighborhoods |
Miscellany |
1976 |
neighbors, appearances |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 65, Snake in the Strawberries 69. |
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At Least Once a Problem Solved |
Sometimes I feel like a shadow |
Colorado Quarterly |
1978 |
birth, accomplishment |
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At Least One Step |
It was a night to stay inside, |
Sunday Oregonian |
1972 |
faith, religion |
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Auction |
The house offers its private |
Fiction: The Magazine for Storytelling |
1974 |
money, belongings |
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Snake in the Strawberries 60. |
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Autumn Love |
When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves |
Ladies Home Journal |
1959 |
love, fall |
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Limited View 27, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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Away with Boards |
The last storm shook |
Kansas Quarterly |
1984 |
cities, destruction |
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Banish Morning Fear |
When he woke at dawn, it was his habit to think |
Modern Maturity |
1980 |
aging, mortality |
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Barns In November |
Along an empty road I watched the barns |
Poetry |
1935 |
winter, harvest |
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Country Men (1937) xxiv, (1938) 46, (1943) 54, Man and His Field 31, Snake in the Strawberries 8. |
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Beauty |
I stayed in the field though the rain was beginning to fall |
Independent |
1927 |
rain, drought |
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see variant note |
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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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Beggared |
The quietness with which I watch you go |
Limited View |
1962 |
loss, loneliness |
Scatter the Petals (1969). |
Limited View 24. |
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67 |
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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Belief |
My neighbor and I have stood in the sun |
Midland |
1927 |
friendship, life |
Literary Digest 12 Nov. (1927) 34, Des Moines Sunday Register 13 Jan. (1929) 8g, College Eye Iowa State Teachers College 12 July (1935) 2. |
Country Men (1937) ii, (1938) 18, (1943) 28, Man and His Field 27. |
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Benchmark of Plunder |
We needed an onion, the row |
A Country Man |
1993 |
theft, exchange |
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A Country Man 25. |
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70 |
Bereaved |
Granted, a meeting with her, |
The American Scholar |
1978 |
death, grief |
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Snake in the Strawberries 98. |
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Best Not to Hope for Miracles |
He had heard that water |
A Country Man |
1993 |
mortality, illness |
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A Country Man 41. |
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Better a Bonfire |
Hitch up the mule, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
memory, secrecy |
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A Country Man 29. |
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Between Neighbors |
A raw nerve jumped in our |
Wisconsin Review |
1970 |
argument, neighbors |
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Between Snow and Stars |
The sun trips and falls headlong down the sky |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
animals, farming |
Late Harvest 75. |
The Sun at Noon 20, Man and His Field 44, Landmark and Other Poems 42. |
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Birth Pains |
I do not remember birth pains |
The New Renaissance |
1978 |
morning, birth |
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