126 |
The Insatiable Demand |
He chopped his work |
The New Renaissance |
1979 |
busyness, overwhelmed |
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127 |
Emeritus |
He cleans out the file and crams |
National Retired Teachers Association Journal |
1977 |
retirement, time |
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128 |
Lack of Seed Power |
He drooped like a wilted flower |
Harper's Bazaar |
1980 |
impotence, regret |
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129 |
A Hawk Is Not a Rabbit |
He got the message! |
Colorado Quarterly |
1978 |
independence, aging |
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130 |
Never Too Late |
He grunted, jammed |
North American Review |
1984 |
aging, gardening |
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A Country Man 28. |
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131 |
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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132 |
Need of Solid Ground |
He hadn't offended God nor failed His Word |
Limited View |
1962 |
work, perseverance |
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Limited View 18. |
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133 |
An In-Between Time |
He hasn't quite left her, |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
divorce, change |
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134 |
How Good is Good Enough |
He must have read whatever signs |
Poetry Now |
1981 |
homelessness, distinctions |
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135 |
Retired |
He sulks in his garden, |
Hika |
1966 |
Depression, retirement |
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136 |
Born Again |
He woke up when she died, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
loss, death |
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137 |
Memorial Day 1982 |
Henry Jensen sits in the sun |
A Country Man |
1993 |
war, death |
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A Country Man 32. |
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138 |
Cleaning Lady |
Her coat is vague as fog but she herself |
Anglo-American Studies |
1983 |
work, virtue |
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A Country Man 18. |
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139 |
The Search |
Here on the hillside is a square of ground |
Wallace's Farmer |
1940 |
farming, neighbors |
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A Single Focus 37, Landmark and Other Poems 46. |
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140 |
The Young Old-Timer |
His hands seek each other under his overall bib |
Wallace's Farmer |
1938 |
farming, resentment |
North American Review (1974) 32. |
The Sun at Noon 12, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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141 |
Mind-Boggled |
His mind bent with the weight |
A Country Man |
1993 |
religion, uncertainty |
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A Country Man 39. |
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142 |
The Sage and the Stones |
His Neighbors farmed |
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1962 |
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143 |
Emerson's Page |
His Neighbors scratched |
Educational Leadership |
1959 |
nature, wisdom |
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Limited View 28, Shaken by Leaf-fall 50, Landmark and Other Poems 29. |
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144 |
The Vine |
His wife and young son in his heart, the future riding his shoulders |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
farming, nature |
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The Sun at Noon 14, Man and His Field 39, Snake in the Strawberries 18. |
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145 |
Better a Bonfire |
Hitch up the mule, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
memory, secrecy |
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A Country Man 29. |
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146 |
Modern Design |
How can you clean up the place |
Slow Loris Reader |
1978 |
order, gardening |
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147 |
The Great Coincidence |
How strange that in the human flow, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, chance |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 80. |
Man and His Field 53. |
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148 |
A Way to Measure |
How stupid to try to measure |
Cottonwood Review |
1968 |
time, memory |
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149 |
Veteran's Day |
How thankful they should be, |
Des Moines Register |
1976 |
war, innocence |
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Snake in the Strawberries 65. |
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150 |
Truth |
How the devil do I know |
Sparrow Magazine |
1961 |
knowledge, farming |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 79, Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 289, Interpreting Literature. 5th ed. 1974. 19, North American Review (1974) 19, The Iowan (Spring |
Limited View 38, Snake in the Strawberries 28, The Good Earth 67. |
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