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176 |
The Wasted Corner |
She was a higglety, pigglety hen |
Wormwood Review |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 27, Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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177 |
Utopia |
When early dark and chilly rains |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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178 |
Home |
The house sags like it’s grieving, paint |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1963 |
misfortune, rootedness |
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179 |
Discovery |
The wind swept the yard, wrinkled the pond, |
Catholic Rural life |
1963 |
nature, weather |
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180 |
The Return Flight |
Evening spread fingers of shadow |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
birds, fall |
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A Single Focus 72. |
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181 |
Unearned Gift |
Shut the door |
America |
1964 |
love, joy |
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A Single Focus 61, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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182 |
Ownership |
Old neighbors of my people |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1964 |
farming, mortality |
Harper's Bazaar (December 1968) 180. |
A Single Focus 73, Landmark and Other Poems 43. |
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183 |
Wilderness Token |
Wild grapes tied their vines |
New Mexico Quarterly |
1964 |
nature, appreciation |
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A Single Focus 16. |
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184 |
Claim of Two Countries |
My native land finds its map |
New Frontiers |
1964 |
nature, farming |
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A Single Focus 52, Landmark and Other Poems 18. |
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185 |
Buried Seeds |
The buried seeds drink up the snow |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
nature, spring |
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A Single Focus 43. |
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186 |
Love's Apostate |
I shoulder my bag, slink through |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
forgiveness, resentment |
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A Single Focus 54. |
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187 |
Reprieve |
I too have gone |
Onward |
1964 |
misfortune, love |
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188 |
Tasters |
The summer sun made blood like sap |
Midwest Quarterly |
1964 |
summer, desire |
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A Single Focus 45, Snake in the Strawberries 39. |
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189 |
The Balance |
I bathed in the tender welter |
New Frontiers |
1964 |
seasons, nature |
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A Single Focus 46. |
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190 |
The Captain Ashore |
I know a man whose twisted wife |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
greed, respect |
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191 |
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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192 |
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. |
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193 |
Second Look |
Lord, let me be patient without rancor |
Eventorium Muse |
1965 |
decay, perseverance |
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194 |
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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195 |
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. |
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196 |
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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197 |
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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198 |
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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199 |
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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200 |
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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