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376 |
The Way It Is |
Prepare the ground, I told her, |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
gardening, gender |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 18. |
Snake in the Strawberries 80. |
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377 |
Vacation in Colorado |
The street's hullabaloo tramps |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
wilderness, civilization |
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Snake in the Strawberries 90. |
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378 |
Escape Artist |
Well, well, so this is the way |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
argument, performance |
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379 |
Alive and Well |
Don't fill the kitchen pot |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
winter, perseverance |
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Snake in the Strawberries 96. |
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380 |
Who? Who? |
Do you ever stop to wonder— |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
identity, reflection |
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Snake in the Strawberries 80. |
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381 |
Same Thing but Different |
The paperboy slammed the screen door |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
community, routine |
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Snake in the Strawberries 81. |
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382 |
Whatever Happened |
When I was young I discovered |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
reading, conformity |
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Snake in the Strawberries 82, The Good Earth 68. |
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383 |
Hostility to Order |
Today the sun's eye |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
entropy, order |
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Snake in the Strawberries 84. |
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384 |
Flight and Return |
The locked house next door |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
neighbors, racism |
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Snake in the Strawberries 78. |
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385 |
Two Men |
The stiff man scrubs his hands, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
duality, conformity |
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386 |
Hardened Arteries |
When the office screwed a few bucks |
Poetry Now |
1975 |
selfishness, guilt |
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Proved by Trial 14. |
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387 |
Anyone Can See |
Anyone with half wit can see |
Poetry Now |
1981 |
farming, gift |
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388 |
Only Flowers Seem Not to Die |
On our May Day anniversary |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
flowers, loss |
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389 |
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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390 |
Castrating the Pigs |
It always seemed to be a rainy day |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
animals, masculinity |
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391 |
Abandoned Orchard |
These weathered trees |
Poetry Now |
1984 |
decay, perseverance |
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392 |
Sign-Directed |
I was born under the sign |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
birth, superstition |
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393 |
How Good is Good Enough |
He must have read whatever signs |
Poetry Now |
1981 |
homelessness, distinctions |
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394 |
Crop Inspector |
The farmer opened the gate, |
Poetry Now |
1984 |
farming, perseverance |
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395 |
An In-Between Time |
He hasn't quite left her, |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
divorce, change |
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396 |
Muskrats in the Cornfield |
Persuasion of rain and sun |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
farming, animals |
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Proved by Trial 22. |
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397 |
Off Limits |
He burned the grass |
Poetry Now |
1979 |
fire, control |
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398 |
Double Talk |
The exercises we schedule |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
duality, survival |
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399 |
Instead of Honey |
Let's get to work, time may be short with us, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
labor, religion |
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Snake in the Strawberries 4. |
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400 |
The Snapshot |
There we four sit, quick perched as sparrows on a wire, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
memory, holiday |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 15, Christmas in Iowa. Ed. Clarence Andrews. Iowa City: Midwest Heritage Publishing Co. (1979) 66. |
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