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76 |
Birthplace |
This is the heart of the farm where I was born, |
Limited View |
1962 |
memory, home |
Snake in the Strawberries 30. |
Limited View 42, The Good Earth 58. |
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77 |
Bitter Taste |
I ate the sour grapes and tried |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
anger, nature |
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78 |
Blue Again |
We saw the horizon with stubborn clutch |
Country Men |
1937 |
weather, clouds |
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79 |
Bluejay |
Into the calm of morning as stone breaks |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
birds, hunting |
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Proved by Trial 15. |
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80 |
Bluejay and I |
The bluejay perches on the |
Spectrum, the Richmond Tri-Annual Review |
1969 |
birds, work |
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81 |
Book of the Mind |
Chilled and seared by the weather |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
introspection, thoughts |
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Planting Red Geraniums 22 |
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82 |
Born Again |
He woke up when she died, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
loss, death |
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83 |
Born Each Morning |
What a shocking way to enter the world, |
Colorado Quarterly |
1977 |
morning, birth |
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Snake in the Strawberries 89. |
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84 |
Bound to Happen |
At the haybarn's peak where |
New England Review |
1981 |
aging, animals |
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85 |
Boundary Lines |
The dog has a squirrel up a tree. |
American Prefaces |
1940 |
fear, animals |
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The Sun at Noon 19, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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86 |
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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87 |
Buried Seeds |
The buried seeds drink up the snow |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
nature, spring |
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A Single Focus 43. |
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88 |
Burn the Cocoons |
The sun waits in the sky for me |
Poetry |
1944 |
farming, planting |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 81. |
Man and His Field 47, Landmark and Other Poems 41. |
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89 |
Burning a Dead Heifer |
This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, animals |
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Man and His Field 63. |
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But the Earth Abides |
The windmill squeaks, flaps broken vanes, |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
renewal, entropy |
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Snake in the Strawberries 9. |
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91 |
Calendar's Mischief |
A day of shock, |
America |
1977 |
time, seasons |
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Snake in the Strawberries 78. |
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92 |
Castrating the Pigs |
It always seemed to be a rainy day |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
animals, masculinity |
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93 |
Caveat Emptor |
I meant to take a quiet walk |
Inserat Groteski |
1971 |
ownership, wilderness |
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94 |
Celebration of Losers |
This morning the roadway lacks friends, |
North Country |
1977 |
regret, failure |
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95 |
Cerebral Palsy |
Each morning the wild, random |
The Windless Orchard |
1980 |
illness, perseverance |
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96 |
Change in Appetites |
We had a hired man whose remarks |
South Dakota Review |
1978 |
sex, animals |
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97 |
Change toward Certainty |
The afternoon closed it until it seemed |
Limited View |
1962 |
love, nature |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 79, The Iowan (Spring 1979) 21. |
Limited View 20, Shaken by Leaf-Fall 25, Snake in the Strawberries 32. |
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98 |
Chill Comfort |
The sun rose, burned off the mist, |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
breakfast, loneliness |
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Proved by Trial 17. |
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99 |
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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100 |
Choreman |
I am a born choreman |
A Country Man |
1993 |
work, pride |
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A Country Man 44. |
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