A Single Focus
| Title | First Line | Theme(s) | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Propped Apple Tree | "Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree" | nature, farming | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 22. |
| Quarrel's Echo | "The front steps seemed not" | relationships, sadness | A Single Focus, 1967, pp. 40 |
| Signed by Your Kiss | "We came too late, we found the trees" | nature, love | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 55. |
| The Change | "The same plowed field and" | fall, hunting | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 59. |
| The New Calf | "In the basement by the furnace lies" | animals, innocence | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 70. |
| Three Sides to a Farm | "So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got" | farming, generations | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 29. |
| Time's Flail | "A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds" | farming, tools | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 34. |
| Trials of Ownership | "The title to the land's a piece of paper" | farming, owning | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 41. |
| Wren in the Vervain | "Sprung from the sacred verbena family" | nature, birds | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 14. |