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426 |
Trials of Ownership |
The title to the land's a piece of paper |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, owning |
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A Single Focus 41. |
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427 |
Forewarned |
Now when the breath of frost has chilled |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, winter |
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A Single Focus 42, Snake in the Strawberries 45. |
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428 |
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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429 |
We All Bear the Mark |
The mark of Cain is hard to spot |
Rendezvous |
1967 |
sin, judgement |
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430 |
Three Sides to a Farm |
So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, generations |
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A Single Focus 29, Snake in the Strawberries 38. |
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431 |
Penance for Anger |
Many times you have fed me, my dear, |
Northwest Review |
1967 |
argument, forgiveness |
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432 |
Quarrel's Echo |
The front steps seemed not |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
relationships, sadness |
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433 |
Intruder |
The morning flowered in |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
morning, sadness |
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A Single Focus 65, Landmark and Other Poems 25. |
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434 |
Progress |
Own all the land you can get |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 44, Snake in the Strawberries 42. |
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435 |
Signed by Your Kiss |
We came too late, we found the trees |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, love |
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A Single Focus 55. |
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436 |
Time's Flail |
A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, tools |
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A Single Focus 34. |
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437 |
The Molehill |
The molehill became a mountain |
Journal of Arts and Letters |
1967 |
argument, marriage |
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438 |
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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439 |
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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440 |
Propped Apple Tree |
Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, farming |
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A Single Focus 22. |
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441 |
Revival |
The anxious hours numb me |
Reporter |
1967 |
fall, mortality |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 56, Snake in the Strawberries 76. |
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442 |
Men Give More Than Promises |
You'd let me walk barefoot on |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
revenge, masculinity |
North American Review (1974) 29. |
A Single Focus 47, Snake in the Strawberries 35. |
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443 |
It Was Like This |
It was neither the Herod in me |
Commonweal |
1967 |
argument, forgiveness |
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444 |
The Change |
The same plowed field and |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
fall, hunting |
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A Single Focus 59. |
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445 |
The New Calf |
In the basement by the furnace lies |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
animals, innocence |
North American Review (1974) 29. |
A Single Focus 70, Snake in the Strawberries 44. |
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446 |
Little Bull |
The...poor...little...bull |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
animals, persistence |
North American Review (1974) 28. Out of This World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 30. |
A Single Focus 49, Landmark and Other Poems 56. |
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447 |
Wren in the Vervain |
Sprung from the sacred verbena family |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, birds |
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A Single Focus 14, Landmark and Other Poems 47. |
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448 |
Out of Bounds |
Black asphalt abides between unbroken curbs of cement, |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
cities, gardening |
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449 |
Words of a Season |
Bundled in scarfs the kids ride their bikes |
Epoch |
1966 |
seasons, transitions |
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A Single Focus 15, Landmark and Other Poems 30. |
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450 |
Tornado |
The cornfield felt a need to write |
Etc. A Review of General Semantics |
1966 |
weather, order |
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