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226 |
Guarding the Fire |
The wind throws snow at the window |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
imagination, alienation |
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227 |
Reprieve |
I too have gone |
Onward |
1964 |
misfortune, love |
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228 |
Not to Give In |
"I wouldn't take a horse |
A Country Man |
1993 |
father, defiance |
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A Country Man 48. |
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229 |
The Unprotected |
The sun at noon |
America |
1959 |
farming, responsibility |
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Limited View 35, Snake in the Strawberries 27. |
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230 |
Meeting a Pheasant Hunter in Our Grove |
The bush’s shape has been bent by the wind |
American Prefaces |
1940 |
wind, nature |
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231 |
An Evasive Fellow |
Lust worries the |
Jump River Review |
1981 |
lust, evasiveness |
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232 |
A Green Voice |
Whatever cold tones |
Midwest Quarterly |
1969 |
renewal, holiday |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 54, Landmark and Other Poems 24. |
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233 |
Day with a Bad Taste |
The street gasps with the exhaust |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
cities, loneliness |
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Planting Red Geraniums 25 |
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234 |
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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235 |
Two Men |
The stiff man scrubs his hands, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
duality, conformity |
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236 |
Who Cares for History? |
They tore down the old Saylor house, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
memory, loss |
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A Country Man 15. |
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237 |
Impudence |
Rowdy winter wind, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
wind, winter |
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Man and His Field 52. |
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238 |
Learning |
Sometimes you must break in |
Colorado Quarterly |
1978 |
neighbors, farming |
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239 |
Time to Cross Over |
A black man with his family |
Slackwater Review |
1981 |
attitudes, race |
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240 |
Comfort in an Old Tune |
The fields echo an old tune |
Pebble: A Magazine of Poetry |
1971 |
nature, peacefulness |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 71, Landmark and Other Poems 27. |
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241 |
Quarrel's Echo |
The front steps seemed not |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
relationships, sadness |
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242 |
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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243 |
Bluejay and I |
The bluejay perches on the |
Spectrum, the Richmond Tri-Annual Review |
1969 |
birds, work |
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244 |
The Contract |
You may have my garden if you will give to me |
Midland |
1926 |
gardening, apples |
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Country Men (1937) xxxiii, (1938) 55. |
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245 |
The Gardener |
When in the sun and armed with shears |
English Journal |
1971 |
gardening, fall |
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246 |
Resolution |
Strokes took off the big tree's top |
after Ward Bib. |
1982 |
work |
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247 |
Cross Purposes |
The farmer sun |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1961 |
weather, superstition |
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Limited View 36, Landmark and Other Poems 40. |
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248 |
Ute Cemetery |
Gravestones lean every which way, |
Westerly Review |
1977 |
death, memory |
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Snake in the Strawberries 90. |
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249 |
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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250 |
The Strongest Magic |
Anger pens me in a sty |
Trace |
1968 |
anger, love |
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