Snake in the Strawberries

Snake in the Strawberries by James Hearst

Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1979
 

Contents

Unpublished

Land of Beginnings

Instead of Honey

Something Not Tamed in Us

Retirement Time Is the Time to Retire

To Build a Fence

Grandfather and the Evangelist

Not to Be Overlooked

Arrogance of Things

Barns in November

But the Earth Abides

A Secret to Live By 

Routine

Need for Magic

No Symbols
 

1937

Fall Plowing

The Reason for Stars

Mad Dog

Cows Bawl on Sunday 

Winter Field

Clover Swaths

In April 

Protest
 

1943

Snake in the Strawberries

The Vine

Homesickness

After the Son Died

The Fence Row

The Neighborhood

Time Like a Hand

Stranger

Boundary Lines
 

1951

Invocation

The Oracle

Memorial Day

Accident

Farmer to His Son

Statement

Threat of Weather

After Chores
 

1962

Love

The Unprotected 

Truth

Many Hens Do Not Make Light Work

The Shadow

Moment toward Spring

The Old Admonitions

Birthplace

Limited View

Change toward Certainty

The Visit 

Late Meadowlark

Scatter the Petals

Men Give More Than Promises

Love in Autumn

Forsythia

Elegy

Apple Harvest 

Three Sides to a Farm

Quarrel's Echo

Tasters

Plea for Single Focus 

Before Frost 

Line between Seasons

Progress

Wilderness Ways

Undertow

The Hunter

Close the Accounts

The New Calf

Forewarned

Karma
 

1968 

Games Are Never Free

End of April

Here and There
 

1969

The Chipmunk and I

Dogma

View by View
 

1970

Resort to Calm 

Routine Keeps Me

Discarded
 

1971

Sharers

A Misery Bleeds

Out of Season

Thought of Bluebells 

Cock Pheasant

Alien

Cry Shame

Destruction

The Farmer's Bride

Sounds around a Man
 

1973 

A Testament 

Revelation

Day of the Cornfield
 

1974

Auction
 

1975

Portrait of an Old House

Outlived by Time

The Visitor 

A Return to Facts
 

1976

Forked Road

Veteran's Day

Self-Portrait

Frustrations

Harvest Claim

Landscape - Iowa

Dirge for an Old Wound

Virigin Prairie 

At Least on the Surface

What Wind

University

Valley and Mountain

Stream and Tree

The Blame

Spring Fever

Don't Ask the Professor

Pressed Flowers

Potencies

Father

Wren Logic

Day after Day

Revival

Winter Mood
 

1977

Growing Up

Flight and Return 

Calendar's Mischief

Lock the Door

The Way It Is

Who? Who?

Same Thing but Different

Eighty Birthdays

Hostility to Order

Not Born Again

Words that Smell Bad

Mother

The Will to Possess

Facts

I Set My Chair

Born Each Morning

Vacation in Colorado

Ute Cemetery 

It Never Went Away

The Enemy

Too Many Defeats Dull the Spirit 

Cleaning the Barn 

Judgment by Spring Rain

Each to Its Own Purpose

Shaped by Names

Alive and Well

End of the Game
 

1978

Women Shearing Men

No More Chores

Bereaved

A Disowner

Dragon Lesson

The Inevitable Words like Signposts