451 |
Potencies |
Earth, sun-plowed, rain-swept, trembles |
Commonweal |
1966 |
farming, diligence |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 27, Snake in the Strawberries 73. |
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452 |
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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453 |
Retired |
He sulks in his garden, |
Hika |
1966 |
Depression, retirement |
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454 |
Metamorphosis |
I starved for the honey you |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
nature, insects |
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A Single Focus 17. |
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455 |
Out of Bounds |
Black asphalt abides between unbroken curbs of cement, |
Wormwood Review |
1966 |
cities, gardening |
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456 |
Tornado |
The cornfield felt a need to write |
Etc. A Review of General Semantics |
1966 |
weather, order |
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457 |
Elegy |
Listen, my friend, shuttered in |
Today |
1966 |
spring, isolation |
Annals of Iowa 42 (Spring 1974) 294, Late Harvest 76. |
A Single Focus 66, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
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458 |
Conservative |
The wilderness sleeps in seed and furrow |
Today |
1966 |
farming, wilderness |
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A Single Focus 67, Landmark and Other Poems 49. |
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459 |
Winter Mood |
Warm in mackinaw and boots I read |
America |
1966 |
winter, poetry |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 21, Snake in the Strawberries 76., Shaken by Leaf-Fall 21, Snake in the Strawberries 76. |
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460 |
What Shall We Do? |
It is really a small matter, |
South Dakota Review |
1966 |
nonconformist, nature |
North American Review (1974) 25. |
A Single Focus 36, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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461 |
Forsythia |
You said, take a few dry |
Poetry |
1965 |
flowers, surprise |
North American Review (1974) 31, The Iowan (Spring 1979) 20. |
A Single Focus 13, Snake in the Strawberries 36, The Good Earth 61. |
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462 |
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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463 |
In Doubt |
Perhaps the fields are doubtful too in spring |
Midwest Quarterly |
1965 |
farming, winter |
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A Single Focus 24, Landmark and Other Poems 35. |
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464 |
Marred |
This headache of a morning |
Sparrow Magazine |
1965 |
morning, birds |
North American Review (1974) 31. |
A Single Focus 38, Landmark and Other Poems 19. |
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465 |
Home Place |
This is the way it was: |
The Congregationalist |
1965 |
snowstorm, winter |
Harper's Bazaar (Jan. 1969) 96. |
A Single Focus 39. |
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466 |
Karma |
Still, cries of hunting shake the grove |
DePaul Literary Magazine |
1965 |
hunting, wilderness |
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A Single Focus 26, Snake in the Strawberries 45. |
|
467 |
The Quarrel |
The front steps seemed not |
American Press |
1965 |
argument, silence |
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A Single Focus 40, Snake in the Strawberries 39. |
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468 |
A Chance Meeting |
A chance day opened a door |
Motive |
1965 |
fall, conversation |
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469 |
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. |
|
470 |
Shortcut |
A shortcut, so we said, a different road, |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
countryside, lost |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 35. |
|
471 |
Common Ground |
Two neighbors lived across a road |
Kansas City Magazine |
1965 |
neighbors, farming |
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A Single Focus 28. |
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472 |
Love in Autumn |
Do you remember the meadow |
America |
1965 |
love, fall |
Scatter the Petals. (1969) |
A Single Focus 63, Snake in the Strawberries 36. |
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473 |
For God's Sake |
Why don't you clean up your place, |
Penny Poems From Midwestern University |
1965 |
garden, decay |
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Proved by Trial 19, Landmark and Other Poems 21. |
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474 |
The Farmer's Season |
Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season, |
America |
1965 |
spring, farming |
"Book Review," Wallace's Farmer (28 Oct. 1967) 3, North American Review (1974) 34, Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 5. |
A Single Focus 3, Landmark and Other's Poems 56. |
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475 |
Plea for Single Focus |
You saw double today when you said you saw the wind |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
nature, farming |
Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 364, North American Review (1974) 21. |
A Single Focus 53, Snake in the Strawberries 40. |
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