Poems 1928-1936. Transition --
Spirals. Promise of brilliant funeral ; When ecstasy is inconvenient --
Will you write me a Christmas poem? --
Next year or I fly my rounds tempestuous --
Domestic and unavoidable --
The president of the holding company --
Fancy another day gone --
Poems 1936-1945. O let's glee glow as we go --
A country's economics sick --
Lady in the leopard coat --
Scuttle up the workshop --
There was a bridge once that said I'm going --
When do we live again Ann --
No retiring summer stroke --
Petrou his name was sorrow --
The eleventh of progressional --
New goose 1936-1945. Don't shoot the rail! --
Ash woods, willow, close to shore --
For sun and moon and radio --
She had tumult of the brain --
Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? --
Not feeling well, my wood uncut --
Remember my little granite pail? --
A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have --
My man says the wind blows from the south --
Here it gives the laws for fishing thru the ice--
On Columbus Day he set out for the north --
Black Hawk held : in reason --
We know him--Law and Order League --
The clothesline post is set --
I said to my head, write something --
Grandpa's got his old age pension --
There's a better shine --
That woman!--eyeing houses --
I doubt I'll get silk stockings out --
To see the man who took care of our stock --
Gen. Rodimstev's story/(Stalingrad) --
Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham --
Well, spring overflows the land --
What a woman!--hooks men like rugs --
The brown muskrat, noiseless --
The broad-leaved arrow-head.
"New goose" manuscript 1936-1945. To a Maryland editor, 1943 --
Summer's away, I traded my chicks for trees --
She was a mourner too. Now she's gone --
Seven years a charming woman wore --
The land of four o'clocks is here --
Brought the enemy down --
The number of Britons killed --
Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store --
Allied convoy/reaches Russia --
Coopered at Fish Creek --
A working man appeared in the street --
Look, the woods, the sky, our home --
I walked/from Chicago to Big Bull Falls (Wausau) --
See the girls in shorts on their bicycles --
When Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed --
Tell me a story about the war --
Poet Percival said : I struck a lode --
Terrible things coming up --
Their apples fall down --
The government men said don't plant wheat --
Am I real way out in space --
On a row of cabins/next my home --
The cabin door flew open --
The elegant office girl --
When brown folk lived a distance.
For Paul and other poems 1945-1956. For Paul. Paul --
Nearly landless and on the way to water --
Understand me, dead is nothing --
How bright you'll find young people --
If he is of constant depth --
The young ones go away to school --
In the great snowfall before the bomb --
Not all that's heard is music. We leave --
Tell me a story about the war --
Laval, Pemeret, Pétain --
Your father to me in your eighth summer --
To Paul now old enough to read --
What horror to awake at night --
Sorrow moves in wide waves --
Jesse James and his brother Frank --
May you have lumps in your mashed potatoes --
Old Mother turns blue and from us --
Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt? --
The slip of a girl-announcer --
My father said "I remember" --
You know, he said, they used to make --
In Europe they grow a new bean while here --
I've been away from poetry --
I am sick with the time's buying sickness --
The death of my poor father --
To Aeneas who closed his piano --
My friend the black and white collie --
They live a cool distance --
For Paul and other poems. Other poems 1945-1956. Horse, hello --
Energy glows at the lips --
We physicians watch the juices rise --
European travel/(Nazi New Order) --
So you're married, young man --
She grew where every spring --
On hearing/the wood pewee --
Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance --
He lived--childhood summers --
Dear Mona, Mary and all --
Don't tell me property is sacred! --
February almost March bites the cold --
Poems 1957-1959. Linnaeus in Lapland --
No matter where you are --
Poems 1960-1964. In Leonardo's light --
The wild and wavy event --
To my small/electric pump --
Homemade / handmade poems 1960-1964. Consider at the outset --
Something in the water --
Frog noise/suddenly stops --
Watching dan-/cers on skates --
Chicory flower/on campus --
Fall ("Early morning corn") --
Some float off on chocolate bars --
The park/"a darling walk/for the mind" --
Poems 1965-1967. Autumn --
Last night the trash barrel --
The boy tossed the news --
They've lost their leaves --
My mother saw the green tree toad --
I lost you to water, summer --
Young in Fall I said : the birds.
North Central. Lake Superior. In every part of every living thing --
Iron the common element of earth --
Through all this granite land --
And at the blue ice superior spot --
Schoolcraft left the Soo--canoes --
The smooth black stone --
I'm sorry to have missed --
Traces of living things. Museum --
I walked/on New Year's Day --
J.F. Kennedy after/the Bay of Pigs --
Poems 1968-1970. Paean to place --
Not all harsh sounds displease --
Harpsichord & salt fish. Thomas Jefferson --
Poems at the porthole. Blue and white ; The soil is poor ; Michelangelo ; Wallace Stevens --
Subliminal. Sleep's dream ; Waded, watched, warbled ; Illustrated night clock's ; Honest ; Night --
Thomas Jefferson inside --
Prose and radio plays 1937. Uncle.
Poems 1951-1952. Switchboard girl --
The evening's automobiles --
from Taste and tenderness.
