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A Single Focus

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Title First Line Original Publication Date Themes Republication Hearst Collections
1 Before Frost Now summer's golden bell is mute A Single Focus 1967 seasons, harvest A Single Focus 35, Snake in the Strawberries 40.
2 Bowed Strength The winter sun had set A Single Focus 1967 winter, resilience A Single Focus 64.
3 The Change The same plowed field and A Single Focus 1967 fall, hunting A Single Focus 59.
4 Cold's Verdict Anger wraps me in a mantle of yellow A Single Focus 1967 neighbors, winter A Single Focus 49, Landmark and Other Poems 29.
5 Forewarned Now when the breath of frost has chilled A Single Focus 1967 farming, winter A Single Focus 42, Snake in the Strawberries 45.
6 Intruder The morning flowered in A Single Focus 1967 morning, sadness A Single Focus 65, Landmark and Other Poems 25.
7 Little Bull The...poor...little...bull A Single Focus 1967 animals, persistence North American Review (1974) 28. Out of This World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 30. A Single Focus 49, Landmark and Other Poems 56.
8 Love's Survival The blind fingertips of longing A Single Focus 1967 summer, love A Single Focus 51.
9 Love's Ways Almost as if you hungered to be free A Single Focus 1967 love, desire Scatter the Petals (1969). A Single Focus 57, Landmark and Other Poems 20.
10 Men Give More Than Promises You'd let me walk barefoot on A Single Focus 1967 revenge, masculinity North American Review (1974) 29. A Single Focus 47, Snake in the Strawberries 35.
11 The New Calf In the basement by the furnace lies A Single Focus 1967 animals, innocence North American Review (1974) 29. A Single Focus 70, Snake in the Strawberries 44.
12 Progress Own all the land you can get A Single Focus 1967 farming, animals A Single Focus 44, Snake in the Strawberries 42.
13 Propped Apple Tree Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree A Single Focus 1967 nature, farming A Single Focus 22.
14 Quarrel's Echo The front steps seemed not A Single Focus 1967 relationships, sadness
15 Signed by Your Kiss We came too late, we found the trees A Single Focus 1967 nature, love A Single Focus 55.
16 Three Sides to a Farm So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got A Single Focus 1967 farming, generations A Single Focus 29, Snake in the Strawberries 38.
17 Time's Flail A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds A Single Focus 1967 farming, tools A Single Focus 34.
18 Trials of Ownership The title to the land's a piece of paper A Single Focus 1967 farming, owning A Single Focus 41.
19 Wren in the Vervain Sprung from the sacred verbena family A Single Focus 1967 nature, birds A Single Focus 14, Landmark and Other Poems 47.