551 |
Each Spring |
When ducks print signs in the mud for the farmer to read, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
spring, hope |
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552 |
Lost |
I hear a child crying |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
lost, fear |
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553 |
The Old Admonitions |
The friend that I had |
Prairie Schooner |
1958 |
loneliness, loss |
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Limited View 2, Snake in the Strawberries 30, The Good Earth 57. |
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554 |
The Happy Farmer |
This farm where I live |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
farming, poverty |
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555 |
Success |
When I come home from work at close of day |
Best Articles and Stories |
1958 |
farming, animals |
Poetry 92 (Aug. 1958) 299. |
Limited View 3, Landmark and Other Poems 52. |
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556 |
Scatter the Petals |
She sleeps as if the mouth of buds, |
American Friend |
1958 |
death, mourning |
Scatter the Petals (1969). |
Limited View 25, Snake in the Strawberries 34. |
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557 |
The Plowboy |
I’ll plow myself a pillow, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
planting, death |
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558 |
The Supplicant |
I try, when I awake, on a bright Sunday morning |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
rest, Sunday |
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559 |
Harvest Claim |
The clover field in bloom seemed innocent |
Kansas City Star |
1957 |
seasons, harvest |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 60, Snake in the Strawberries 67. |
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560 |
Spring On The Farm |
The mixed emotions which I hold this spring |
Canadian Poetry Magazine |
1957 |
animals, spring |
The MacDonald Farm Journal 20.3 (March 1959) 19, Wallace's Farmer (16 March 1963) 50. |
Limited View 30, Landmark and Other Poems 52. |
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561 |
Surprise [1] |
You seemed brave but lost in the ambush of clover, |
The Humanist |
1957 |
love, betrayal |
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Limited View 22, Landmark and Other Poems 23. |
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562 |
Threat of Weather |
We know we can outlast the weather |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, weather |
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Man and His Field 57, Snake in the Strawberries 25. |
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563 |
The Oracle |
The oracle whose customer I am |
Poetry |
1951 |
uncertainty, foretelling |
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Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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564 |
The Return |
Shot from cannon-barrelled wind the sleet |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
memory, technology |
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Man and His Field 32, Landmark and Other Poems 51 (as "The Magic Lantern"). |
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565 |
All Anyone Could Say |
The children that we love are busy people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
children, exploration |
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Man and His Field 58. |
|
566 |
Fog |
Waves of the sea's ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
weather, defamiliarization |
North American Review 299.2 (Spring 2014) 26. |
Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 36. |
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567 |
Accident |
The iron teeth of the harrow |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
birds, destruction |
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Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 48, Snake in the Strawberries 24. |
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568 |
No Leaves? No Apples? |
No fruit bends the orchard trees |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
fall, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 59. |
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569 |
For A Neighbor Woman |
Early this morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, gardening |
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Man and His Field 28, Landmark and Other Poems 10. |
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570 |
Analogy |
It's like digging all day at a buried stone |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, introspection |
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Man and His Field 60. |
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571 |
What Was That? |
Never was so much hubbub in the morning, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
work, farming |
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Man and His Field 41. |
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572 |
Construction |
The hammer voices went on an on |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
labor, winter |
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Man and His Field 62. |
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573 |
Point of View |
After a dark day low with clouds, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
sunset, perspective |
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Man and His Field 43. |
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574 |
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. |
|
575 |
Memorial Day |
It puzzles me to see the stooping people |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
flowers, death |
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Man and His Field 51, Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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