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576 |
Home Work |
Today is cleaning day in the pens |
The Ghent Quarterly |
1975 |
work, animals |
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577 |
Farmer to His Son |
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578 |
Home |
The house sags like it’s grieving, paint |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1963 |
misfortune, rootedness |
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579 |
Autumn Love |
When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves |
Ladies Home Journal |
1959 |
love, fall |
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Limited View 27, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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580 |
Best Not to Hope for Miracles |
He had heard that water |
A Country Man |
1993 |
mortality, illness |
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A Country Man 41. |
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581 |
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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582 |
Cerebral Palsy |
Each morning the wild, random |
The Windless Orchard |
1980 |
illness, perseverance |
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583 |
Between Neighbors |
A raw nerve jumped in our |
Wisconsin Review |
1970 |
argument, neighbors |
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584 |
Come On, Let's Go |
Wake up, dope head, wake up, |
KPFA Folio |
1970 |
farming, spring |
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585 |
Late Spring |
I tried to sow the oats and grass this year |
Furioso |
1951 |
farming, drought |
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Man and His Field 66, Landmark and Other Poems 53. |
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586 |
One Thing Leads to Another |
A flock of geese and a basket |
A Country Man |
1993 |
birds, shame |
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A Country Man 14. |
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587 |
Love's Survival |
The blind fingertips of longing |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
summer, love |
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A Single Focus 51. |
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588 |
Gift for All |
The miracles of creation |
Skylark |
1981 |
animals |
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589 |
Robin In The Straw |
A robin scratches right and left |
Midland |
1932 |
reflection, birds |
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Country Men (1937) xxvii, (1938) 49, (1943) 56. |
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590 |
[The committee debated] |
The committee debated |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
censorship, satire |
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Planting Red Geraniums 23 |
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591 |
What's Time to a Hog? |
Today a man asked me |
Nebraska Review |
1982 |
time, mortality |
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592 |
Until The Storm Passes |
The wheel-rounded wind races |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II |
1972 |
winter, relationships |
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Landmark and Other Poems 31. |
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593 |
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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594 |
Without Your Good Morning |
Perhaps I miss you more than I should, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
death, loss |
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A Country Man 49. |
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595 |
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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596 |
The Windmill |
Time I greased the windmill, |
Texas Review |
1981 |
childhood, recklessness |
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597 |
A Secret to Live By |
In the attic of my mind |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
memory, revelation |
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Snake in the Strawberries 10. |
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598 |
Names for an Obstacle |
This iceberg of granite |
Poem |
1969 |
rootedness, perseverance |
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599 |
The Red Flower |
The day sagged under heavy wind |
Limited View |
1962 |
love, renewal |
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Limited View 26. |
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600 |
Discovery |
The wind swept the yard, wrinkled the pond, |
Catholic Rural life |
1963 |
nature, weather |
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