Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- A1: Typed Documentary Copies of Published Poems
- A12: Typed Documentary Copies of Mostly Published Poems
- A2: Typed Copies of Poems in unpublished put-together titled Les Miserables
- A3: Typed Copies of Poems in unpublished put-together titled Collected Verse (1937 to 1943)
- A4: Typed Copies of Poems in an unpublished put-together titled Survivors - Poems of 1944 .
- A4.1: Typed Copies of Poems in an unpublished put-together titled Some of the Words We Said .
- A5: Typed Copies of Poems from 1945
- A6: Typed Documentary Copies of Published Poems
- A7: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems
- A8: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems
- A9: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems
- A10: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems
- A11: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems
- dc1: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for West of Your City
- dc2: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for Traveling through the Dark
- dc3: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for The Rescued Year
- A13: PhD Submission, Winterward
- A14: Unpublished put-together, Wind World
- A15: Unpublished put-together, It Was Like This
- dc5: Unpublished put-together, Roundup
- dc8: Poems for special Stafford issue of Small Farm
- dc4: Put-together for Allegiances
- dc6: Put-together for Someday, Maybe
- dc7: Put-together for Stories That Could Be True
- dc9: Put-together for Wyoming Circuit
- dc10: Put-together for Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People
- dc11: Put-together for A Glass Face in the Rain
- dc12a: Put-together for Eleven Untitled Poems
- dc12b: Put-together for Weather
- dc12c: Put-together for Temporary Facts
- dc12d: Put-together for That Other Alone
- dc12e: Put-together for Going Places
- dc12f: Put-together for Braided Apart
- dc12g: Put-together for The Design on the Oriole
- dc12h: Put-together for All About Light
- dc12i: Put-together for Smoke's Way
- dc12j: Put-together for Tuft By Puff
- dc12k: Put-together for The Quiet of the Land
- dc12l: Put-together for Sometimes Like a Legend
- dc13: Put-together for Segues
- dc14: Put-together for Listening Deep
- dc15: Put-together for Stories and Storms and Strangers
- dc17: Put-together for Brother Wind
- dc18: Put-together for An Oregon Message
- dc22: Put-together for Fin, Feather, Fur
- dc16: Put-together for Wyoming
- dc19: Put-together for You and Some Other Characters
- dc20: Put-together for Writing the World
- dc21: Put-together for Annie-Over
- dc33: Put-together for unpublished book, Sometimes I Breathe
- dc23: Put-together for A Scripture of Leaves
- dc24: Put-together for How To Hold Your Arms When It Rains
- dc25: Put-together for The Long Sigh the Wind Makes
- dc26: Put-together for Passwords
- dc27: Put-together for History Is Loose Again
- dc28: Put-together for Holding Onto the Grass
- dc29: Put-together for Seeking the Way
- dc30: Put-together for unpublished book Torque Tongue
- dc30.1: Put-together for unpublished book with Gibbs Smith Publishing
- dc31: Put-together for Who Are You Really, Wanderer?
- dc32: Put-together for Methow River Poems
- B1: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles A-E
- B2: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles F-M
- B3: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles N-S
- B4: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles T-Y
- D1: Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems
- D2: "Tired Poems and Their Wanderings": Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems
- D3: "Tired Poems Put Away June 1965": Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems
- D4: Typescripts of Unpublished Poems
- C1: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C2: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C3: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C4: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C5: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C6: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C7: Typescript Put-Together of Poems gathered for unpublished book, Roundup
- C8: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals
- C9: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication
- C10: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication
- C11: Typescripts of Poems for Chapbooks
- C12: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C13: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C14: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C15: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C16: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C17: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C18: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications
- C19: Additional Poems for a new book, put together / maybe add to “Sometimes I Breathe”
- C20: Unpublished Put-together: "24 Poems Good for a Book"
- C21: "OK Copies not in a book"
- C22: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication
- C22.1: Typescripts of "Translations" (from Spanish of Aleixandre, Estelles, Gonzalez, Hidalgo, Lorca, Montres, Unamuno)
- Names and Subjects
The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 1, Sub-Series 3: Documentary Copies of Poems, 1937-1993
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Stafford, William, 1914-1993
- Title
- The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 1, Sub-Series 3: Documentary Copies of Poems
- Dates
- 1937-1993 (inclusive)19371993
- Quantity
- 17 boxes, (5 cubic feet)
- Collection Number
- OLPb101STA
- Summary
- William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. This subseries of the collection includes typed documentary copies of Stafford's finished poems that he used to track submissions, rejections, and acceptances. The Index to the entire Stafford Archives can be found at: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv83782
- Repository
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Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu - Access Restrictions
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This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many credentials, Stafford served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark (1963). During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with both scholars and general readers. Stafford’s perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate and engaging dialogues by a modern American writer about three of the most important issues of the second half of the twentieth century with lasting impacts on future generations. Howard Zinn, one America’s most iconic modern historians, was keenly aware of Stafford’s insight into modern American culture. Zinn claimed, “William Stafford’s prose and poetry, wise and eloquent, speak directly to the violence of our time, and to our hope for a different world” (from cover of Every War Has Two Losers).
The William Stafford Archives, donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Stafford family in 2008, contain the private papers, publications, photographs, recordings, and teaching materials of the poet William Stafford. The Lewis & Clark College Special Collections actively add to this collection by acquiring unique Stafford related materials.
Stafford wrote every day of his life from 1950 to 1993. These 20,000 pages of daily writings form a complete record of the poet’s mostly early morning meditations, including poem drafts, dream records, aphorisms, and other visits to the unconscious, recorded on separate sheets of yellow or white paper or when traveling, often in spiral-bound reporters’ steno pads. The archive also includes typescripts of poems submitted for publication and for use in readings. Stafford listed where he submitted each poem, and whether it was accepted for publication on the typescript. Each of his published collections, large and small, is represented by its gathering of documentary copies (typescripts), called by Stafford a “put-together.” Unpublished poems, poems published in journals, and reading copies of published poems were also gathered, in a virtually complete record from 1937 to 1993, totaling about 7,000 items. The collection also includes copies of all known Stafford books and translations. Stafford saved correspondence received, with an indication of the date of reply, and sometimes a copy of the reply, from the early 1960s to August 1993. Estimated at 100,000 sheets, the collected correspondence contains some full exchanges of correspondence initiated by WS. One such exchange is the correspondence with Marvin Bell on their sequence Segues. In addition to many photographs of and relating to William Stafford, the archive includes an estimated 20,000 photographs and negatives taken and developed by Stafford of fellow poets, family, friends, and Lewis & Clark College faculty. The archive provides documentation of Stafford's teaching career, including more than one thousand index cards, some dating from research at Iowa, others from later. These were much used in preparing for classes, workshops, and lectures. The files also contain scattered notes for workshops and lectures. The archive also includes course syllabi, and faculty documents relating to Stafford's teaching years at Lewis & Clark College.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Includes Stafford's typed revisions of his poems that were used to track publication submissions, rejections, and acceptances for publication.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
The William Stafford Archives, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in Stafford's original order, which varied depended on time period and type of poetry. Many of the poems are grouped twith other poems that were published together in the same books. See the detailed listing below for more information.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
A1: Typed Documentary Copies of Published Poems, 1941-1960Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 1/Folder A1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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A1.1 | "After Plotinus"
First Line: When a statue turns its real gaze.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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December 1, 1959 |
A1.2 | "After School: Room 3"
First Line: One pale goldfish patrols the globe on Teacher’s desk.
Accepted by: New York Times.
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July 3, 1962 |
A1.3 | "All White"
First Line: Without a door closing.
Accepted by: The Oregonian.
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February 13, 1945 |
A1.4 | "Amulet"
First Line: I held a quiet stone.
Accepted by: Liberation.
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April 1, 1953 |
A1.5 | "Anniversaries"
First Line: Ash, that pure wood, breaks from dirt.
Accepted by: Oakland Tribune.
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August 1, 1957 |
A1.6 | "Art and Evidence"
First Line: Where the man had camped, where he worked.
Accepted by: Etchings.
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August 1, 1961 |
A1.7 | "At a California College"
First Line: On a dark pivot the talk veers.
Accepted by: Recurrence.
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July 26, 1954 |
A1.8 | "At Benediction"
First Line: How to compose my face? My shoulders.
Accepted by: The Nation.
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May 1, 1962 |
A1.9 | "At Roll Call"
First Line: One day I stood, small shoes upon the sand.
Accepted by: Compass and published in Down in My
Heart.
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March 1, 1942 |
A1.10 | "At the Custer Monument"
First Line: They buried the soldiers where they fell.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
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July 1, 1953 |
A1.11 | "At the NCTE Meeting"
First Line: Trying to act out what really was wrong with the place.
Accepted by: College English.
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December 1, 1955 |
A1.12 | "At the U.N."
First Line: Among what the good world speakers were uttering.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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May 1, 1956 |
A1.13 | "Away from Here"
First Line: If there were cold for injustice.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
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September 3, 1949 |
A1.14 | "Beans in the Sack"
First Line: The way beans went by each other in a sack.
Accepted by: College English.
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May 21, 1949 |
A1.15 | "Blunt or Deep"
First Line: Pulling along the edge of cruel.
Accepted by: Etchings.
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April 26, 1951 |
A1.16 | "Breath"
First Line: Far up the canyon where the salmon leap.
Accepted by: Motive and published in Down in My
Heart.
|
November 1, 1942 |
A1.17 | "Buzzards over Arkansas"
First Line: Three sombre wheeling chips tantalize a vortex.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly and New
Signatures, and published in Down in My
Heart.
|
March 2, 1942 |
A1.18 | "By the Escalator"
First Line: There are faces you own.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1959 |
A1.19 | "Civ Lecture"
First Line: It was going to rain.
Accepted by: Pioneer Log.
|
November 1, 1960 |
A1.20 | "Coming Toward a Mist"
First Line: Anyone’s face coming toward mist.
Accepted by: Etchings.
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June 1, 1956 |
A1.21 | "Cool World"
First Line: Along my river frogs like thought.
Published in Down in My Heart and
Winterward.
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March 21, 1944 |
A1.22 | "Communion at Lunch"
First Line: Eating my sandwich (little but bread these days).
Accepted by: Poetry.
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December 1, 1959 |
A1.23 | "Contributions"
First Line: Aristotle invented.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
June 13, 1945 |
A1.24 | "Country of Thin Mountains"
First Line: I tell you, friends, the mountains here are thin-.
Accepted by: Motive.
|
July 1, 1942 |
A1.25 | "Divergences"
First Line: The sleeping of the stars will finally win,
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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June 1, 1955 |
A1.26 | "Down at the Beach"
First Line: It is not true that finesse will win”.
Accepted by: Etchings.
|
October 1, 1956 |
A1.27 | "Elementary Civics"
First Line: At every level, down to duck feet on the pavement.
Accepted by: The Magazine, Lewis & Clark College.
|
July 29, 1952 |
A1.28 | "Elevator"
First Line: Spoke? No. Nobody spoke.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1959 |
A1.29 | "Encounter"
First Line: In the bright wind from the fields today.
Accepted by: Liberation.
|
March 1, 1956 |
A1.30 | "Essai / the Civilized French"
First Line: Trying to act themselves, to be what they already are.
Accepted by: UCLAN Review.
|
April 1, 1960 |
A1.31 | "Event"
First Line: At evening on Feb. 26, the long flat sunlight.
Accepted by: Feoh.
|
March 1, 1942 |
A1.32 | "Faint Message"
First Line: This world, the chalice, held briefly the day.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 9, 1947 |
A1.33 | "Family Statement"
First Line: My brother, flying a plane in this war.
Accepted by: Retort and The Bridge.
|
August 11, 1943 |
A1.34 | "Farewell to a Certain
Student"
First Line: Kathleen, you may bear burghers. Goodbye...
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
July 31, 1950 |
A1.35 | "Flowers and Rocks"
First Line: Attentive to the air, returning the rain’s touch.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
July 1, 1959 |
A1.36 | "From the Committee"
First Line: We plan to have slow wing beats.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
April 1, 1955 |
A1.37 | "Genius in Our Classroom"
First Line: The sun rose in a childs head.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
August 1, 1957 |
A1.38 | "German Shepherd"
First Line: Maple in front of elm unsteady from storms.
Accepted by: Saturday Evening Post and Uclan
Review 1964.
|
October 25, 1955 |
A1.39 | "Glimpses"
First Line: By a simple bridge, a log, we cross.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
June 1, 1961 |
A1.40 | "Good Boy"
First Line: When the minister speaks.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
June 2, 1949 |
A1.41 | "Hero"
First Line: When he tasted the banquet.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
January 1, 1948 |
A1.42 | "Hero Learning to Leave Home"
First Line: Ordered by straight sounds.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
March 1, 1959 |
A1.43 | "High Water"
First Line: We saw the Sunday morning bodies.
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
June 4, 1948 |
A1.44 | "Hudson River Vista"
First Line: A pride of Mohawks, their scalps all whiskied.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
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June 1, 1956 |
A1.45 | "Humanities 3: The Greeks"
First Line: Levering a hold like a shovel-handle.
Accepted by: Pioneer Log.
|
November 1, 1960 |
A1.46 | "Immolation"
First Line: The murder was accomplished.
Accepted by: Prairie Schooner.
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October 4, 1941 |
A1.47 | "Incident"
First Line: While the sun is blaming Nevada.
Accepted by: Western Bookman.
|
February 3, 1953 |
A1.48 | "Indian Summer"
First Line: In autumn-leaved, soft-moccasined September.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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September 22, 1945 |
A1.49 | "In Eastern Oregon"
First Line: Down that wind from heights through desperate air.
Accepted by: College English and Oregon
Journal.
|
December 1, 1955 |
A1.50 | "In the Briars"
First Line: They shot the rabbit. Next night, back again,
Accepted by: The Magazine, Lewis & Clark College
|
January 26, 1952 |
A1.51 | "In the Mirror"
First Line: Alone here with a stranger.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review
|
February 20, 1952 |
A1.52 | "In the Still Night"
First Line: Mixed in the signals around us.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1959 |
A1.53 | "In the Study in the Morning"
First Line: On paper the color of rain.
Accepted by: Oakland Tribune.
|
March 1, 1957 |
A1.54 | "In Trust"
First Line: I saw the gulls being gulls.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
February 1, 1953 |
A1.55 | "In Turning Land"
First Line: Railroads through Oregon follow a kind of need.
Accepted by: Oregon Journal.
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March 1, 1957 |
A1.56 | "Isaiah ‘54"
First Line: The people who tried to walk.
Accepted by: New Signatures and New Mexico
Quarterly Review
|
September 16, 1944 |
A1.57 | "Kinship"
First Line: I lean my cheek on palm.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
July 15, 1945 |
A1.58 | "Like Opening a Package"
First Line: Like opening a package.
Accepted by: Etchings.
|
August 1, 1960 |
A1.59 | "Little Stranger"
First Line: Walking away, bending his knee.
Accepted by: Houyhnhmn’s Scrapbook.
|
August 16, 1944 |
A1.60 | "Lonely Feeling"
First Line: Locomotives voted to whistle.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
October 23, 1948 |
A1.61 | "To a Cynical Lady Lover Meets a Cynical
Lady"
First Line: A lady made of pemmican.
Accepted by: Etchings.
|
February 1, 1958 |
A1.62 | "Love Song"
First Line: I do not find you so dreadful.
Accepted by: The Bridge.
|
December 30, 1952 |
A1.63 | "In the Morning" [Malleable]
First Line: A train of clouds that formed somewhere.
Accepted by: Oregon Journal.
|
February 17, 1950 |
A1.64 | "Marked by a Star"
First Line: They briefed the men for the mission.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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December 13, 1944 |
A1.65 | "Meditations / a Careful
Program"
First Line: Forgotten, the reason for change has been forgotten.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
December 1, 1954 |
A1.66 | "Meditation"
First Line: If I could remember all at once.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
March 1, 1943 |
A1.67 | "Midnight"
First Line: Down black trees on our land rain goes.
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
January 1, 1953 |
A1.68 | "Moles"
First Line: Every day that the sky droops down.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
November 16, 1948 |
A1.69 | "Moment, Instant, Flash"
First Line: The time the steering gear broke.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
December 7, 1948 |
A1.70 | "Monday Again"
First Line: Turn on the toaster.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
January 22, 1954 |
A1.71 | "More Than Bread"
First Line: I do not want to live here.
Published in Down in My Heart.
|
January 19, 1944 |
A1.72 | "Mr. Conscience"
First Line: The meditative crane.
Accepted by: Grundtvig Review.
|
June 6, 1945 |
A1.73 | "My Mind Awoke in a..."
First Line: My mind awoke in a shirt of flame.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1958 |
A1.74 | "Before Anyone Spoke" [Near the
Presidio]
First Line: Before anyone spoke.
Accepted by: Inland.
|
August 1, 1956 |
A1.75 | "Night Light"
First Line: There is a footfall faintley every night.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
October 1, 1955 |
A1.76 | "No One Can Let Go"
First Line: To win by action is our age’s pride.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
February 1, 1957 |
A1.77 | "North of the Ohio"
First Line: More and more like the river’s.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
October 1, 1955 |
A1.78 | "Note"
First Line: The sparrows are as reckless as ever.
Accepted by: Reeds, Lewis & Clark College.
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December 31, 1945 |
A1.79 | "Observation"
First Line: Bending over, watching them quietly.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly Review and New
Signatures.
|
December 1, 1941 |
A1.80 | "Old House by the Tracks"
First Line: Passing glances into this empty room.
Accepted by: The Bridge.
|
October 22, 1952 |
A1.81 | "On an Island in the San
Juans"
First Line: Rabbits here have chosen their holes.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 1, 1961 |
A1.82 | "On Location"
Not a poem.
|
undated |
A1.83 | "On Penitencia Creek"
First Line: Minnows nibble at my white feet.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
March 1, 1957 |
A1.84 | "On Reading a Newspaper Account of a
Friend Shot by a Madman"
First Line: That picture all of us are dealt every day.
Accepted by: UCLAN Review.
|
January 1, 1961 |
A1.85 | "On the Beach"
First Line: Only few, and they by grace.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 1, 1958 |
A1.86 | "On the Way"
First Line: Perfectly anonymous I go up the stair.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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April 30, 1951 |
A1.87 | "Overhearing"
First Line: You will go away some time.
Accepted by: The Nation.
|
September 1, 1956 |
A1.88 | "People"
First Line: Eating what they don’t like.
Accepted by: Grundtvig Review.
|
May 3, 1947 |
A1.89 | "Perspective"
First Line: From far enough even a war a murmur.
Accepted by: Experiment.
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August 31, 1949 |
A1.90 | "Philosophy 1"
First Line: The bridge that really is here.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
June 24, 1948 |
A1.91 | "Poet Bites Job"
First Line: The wisest thing after the wisdom of time.
Accepted by: College English.
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January 25, 1956 |
A1.92 | "Preparedness"
First Line: Knowing the explosion would happen.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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September 1, 1954 |
A1.93 | "Project"
First Line: From up where beavers hold the river together.
Accepted by: Golden Gate.
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March 1, 1955 |
A1.94 | "Reflection"
First Line: Leaders of the world may pose for newspapers.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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January 2, 1953 |
A1.95 | "Review"
First Line: The arm is bayonet good.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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December 5, 1945 |
A1.96 | "Scenes at Yaddo"
First Line: In the music fountain filling the music room.
Accepted by: Inland.
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June 1, 1956 |
A1.97 | "Serious Separate Things"
First Line: Getting used to being a man.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
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December 1, 1957 |
A1.98 | "S. Freud, Alcove 7, U.
Library"
First Line: Saved by forgetting or neglect...aloud.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
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January 25, 1952 |
A1.99 | "Shepherd"
First Line: According to the silence, winter has arrived-.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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July 16, 1957 |
A1.100 | "Sight of the World"
First Line: Through the cat portal into the cave.
Accepted by: Experiment and published in the anthology
Poems from the Iowa Poetry Workshop.
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June 1, 1947 |
A1.101 | "So Long"
First Line: Of the millions of rain.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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May 9, 1946 |
A1.102 | "Sometimes Considering"
First Line: Sometimes considering.
Accepted by: Etchings.
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May 1, 1960 |
A1.103 | "Sort of Political Comment from a New Kind
of Citizen"
First Line: A spaniel-heard combat boot comes near.
Accepted by: December.
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September 1, 1958 |
A1.104 | "Spring Interest"
First Line: Today, or maybe yesterday, the minnows returned.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
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June 1, 1956 |
A1.105 | "Stick Up"
First Line: Hands up! trees.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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December 31, 1945 |
A1.106 | "Still Life"
First Line: On our way somewhere we sat at this table.
Accepted by: Approach.
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June 6, 1956 |
A1.107 | "Still Night"
First Line: If I should find a locomotive.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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February 2, 1945 |
A1.108 | "Stray Thought"
First Line: In the center of the intersection.
Accepted by: The Oregonian.
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March 1, 1956 |
A1.109 | "Sunday Avenue"
First Line: There are no right ones married to wrong ones here.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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March 4, 1948 |
A1.110 | "Super Market"
First Line: Every bit of yellow cheese in the market.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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February 15, 1947 |
A1.111 | "Tall Animals"
First Line: For pigs the click of the pail is enough.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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January 28, 1945 |
A1.112 | "Temporary Monuments"
First Line: In my headache one steady light held on.
Accepted by: Kansas City Star 1962.
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September 6, 1961 |
A1.113 | "Testimony to an Inquisitor"
First Line: Mud through my toes I’m from this land.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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June 25, 1954 |
A1.114 | "That Early Spring"
First Line: When blizzards fought the redbud down.
Accepted by: Talisman.
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September 1, 1957 |
A1.115 | "That Emperor Who Wrote..."
First Line: He ruled a hard state, a capital of rock.
Accepted by: Emerson College Magazine.
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August 1, 1958 |
A1.116 | "Thought, the Pacifist"
First Line: While the bullet was coming.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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December 1, 1959 |
A1.117 | "Trace"
First Line: Raccoons leave designs to stare from daylight mud.
Accepted by: The Bridge.
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October 1, 1955 |
A1.118 | "Translated from Grandmother's
Lesebuch"
First Line: On every merry-go-round there was one hideous....
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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September 6, 1951 |
A1.119 | "Villain I Saw"
First Line: Wherever he went a cat beside him.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest 1963.
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August 1, 1960 |
A1.120 | "We Call It the Chaparral"
First Line: We call it the chaparral.
Published in Down in My Heart.
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March 1, 1943 |
A1.121 | "Juke Joint"
First Line: When the chromium buds of America bloom.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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April 23, 1945 |
A1.122 | "West of Boston"
First Line: With steadfast lechery my parents loved each other.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
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March 18, 1962 |
A1.123 | "Word for Mr. Wordsworth"
First Line: Going out to put a hand on the door frame.
Accepted by: College English 1958.
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October 7, 1956 |
A1.124 | "World’s Judgement"
First Line: When they unsort the world’s honesty...
Accepted by: The Bridge.
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April 1, 1955 |
A1.125 | "Writers’ Conference"
First Line: Can the speakers know how high the volume’s on?.
Accepted by: The Nation.
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August 31, 1949 |
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A12.2 | “Accompanied by Pythagoras”
First Line: At odd places when the trees.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
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February 1, 1967 |
A12.3 | “Adjustment”
First Line: Oh, suddenly we saw how easy.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
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October 1, 1965 |
A12.4 | “Agents”
First Line: At the last how many are there, clung.
Accepted by: Black Sun, Lewis & Clark College.
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January 1, 1967 |
A12.5 | “Age of Microfilm”
First Line: Remember those curls of.
Accepted by: The Goodly Co..
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September 1, 1964 |
A12.6 | “Airport”
First Line: At the fountain you bow to drink: that water.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
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April 1, 1965 |
A12.7 | “Alarmists”
First Line: After they called and it was only a wolf.
Accepted by: St. Andrews Review .
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May 1, 1965 |
A12.8 | “All the New Mornings”
First Line: One song at a time we crossed.
Accepted by: This Issue .
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May 1, 1970 |
A12.9 | “All the Time”
First Line: We live in a town clocks hurt. They chase.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
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July 1, 1967 |
A12.10 | “American Gothic”
First Line: If we see better through tiny.
Accepted by: Pebble.
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July 1, 1968 |
A12.11 | “Analysis”
First Line: The men wear the leather jackets, and their mates.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
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March 1, 1965 |
A12.12 | “Art in California: Housing
Project”
First Line: Here they worship Beauty and create the perfect mistake.
Accepted by: Granta.
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July 1, 1961 |
A12.13 | “Assurances”
First Line: Shepherding people all the time, a host.
Accepted by: Granta.
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September 1, 1962 |
A12.14 | “As the Song Says”
First Line: At first, the song says, Love is.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
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April 1, 1967 |
A12.15 | “At a Humanities Conference”
First Line: To the man at the door I though my friend.
Accepted by: Prism.
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March 1, 1962 |
A12.16 | “At First National”
First Line: Every morning when day.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
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December 1, 1967 |
A12.17 | “At the Advanced Placement
Conference”
First Line: We teach ourselves how to teach others.
Accepted by: Special Libraries.
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January 1, 1967 |
A12.18 | “At the Observatory”
First Line: On a hill one night away down here in space.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
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June 1, 1963 |
A12.19 | “Augurer”
First Line: Around our city, around these right clocks.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
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June 19, 1956 |
A12.20 | “Augustine”
First Line: Following a dry creek without a bend.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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February 1, 1957 |
A12.21 | “Autumn”
First Line: Somewhere a signal jammed.
Accepted by: Poet & Critic.
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September 1, 1960 |
A12.22 | “Baby Ten Months Old Looks at the Public
Domain”
First Line: Somewhere near the end of a snowshoe trail.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
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July 3, 1949 |
A12.23 | “Be Calm. God Has Offered Us Pretty
Names”
First Line: Let fawn autumn come.
Accepted by: A Nosegay in Black.
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August 1, 1965 |
A12.24 | “Beginning”
First Line: Everyone lost that last bombardment.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
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July 1, 1965 |
A12.25 | “Below the Border”
First Line: The Yaquis by the highway417.
Accepted by: Poetry Bag.
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March 1, 1966 |
A12.26 | “Bertha’s Guitar”
First Line: When cuando the dove la paloma.
Accepted by: Redstart.
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September 1, 1966 |
A12.27 | “Beyond the Casement”
First Line: Besides what happens, ther are.
Accepted by: Doones.
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October 1, 1966 |
A12.28 | “Biography”
First Line: Two days were walking down the street.
Accepted by: Cloud Maraude.
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November 1, 1967 |
A12.29 | “Bravery of Love”
First Line: If I should have that bravery of gaining love.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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October 1, 1955 |
A12.30 | “Bulletin" [1950]
First Line: At five o’clock one morning according to the chart.
Accepted by: Experiment.
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A12.31 | “Bulletin" [1962]
First Line: No one need bring back those ponies.
Accepted by: New York Times.
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December 1, 1962 |
A12.32 | “By the College Library”
First Line: One square of the walk says.
Accepted by: Roanoke Review.
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August 1, 1967 |
A12.33 | “Calendar Jottings”
First Line: Watch the career of blue.
Accepted by: Reeds.
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January 1, 1953 |
A12.34 | “Child’s Face in History
Class”
First Line: It remembers. It welcomes.
Accepted by: Roadapple Review.
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June 1, 1967 |
A12.35 | “Clash”
First Line: The butcher knife was there.
Accepted by: Fair.
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June 1, 1956 |
A12.36 | “Day After Then”
First Line: He adjusted the blinds for the morning sun.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
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February 1, 1963 |
A12.37 | “Deaf Gardener”
First Line: While he worked he was absent.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
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January 1, 1966 |
A12.38 | “Diary Entry”
First Line: The State has taught its men a new kind of organized.
Accepted by: December.
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October 1, 1961 |
A12.39 | “Dining Alone”
First Line: The centerpiece.
Accepted by: Human Voice.
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July 1, 1968 |
A12.40 | “Distance" [1968]
First Line: In the movies a horse.
Accepted by: Pebble.
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November 1, 1968 |
A12.41 | “Distance" [1964]
First Line: Suddenly it was Mexico that afternoon.
Accepted by: December.
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October 1, 1964 |
A12.42 | “Dog Asleep”
First Line: Dogs have dreams of Laika, her free soul.
Accepted by: Golden Gate / Creative Review & In Inside Outer
Space .
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July 1, 1958 |
A12.43 | “Doodled While Counseling a
Student”
First Line: They say we learn by judicious.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
A12.44 | “Dorothy Wordsworth”
First Line: A girl who lived in a house of stone.
Accepted by: Pebble.
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July 1, 1968 |
A12.45 | “Doves”
First Line: Doves are what belong when accepted.
Accepted by: Focus Midwest.
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December 1, 1961 |
A12.46 | “Dreamer”
First Line: Charging in the train across Utah.
Accepted by: Inland.
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January 1, 1956 |
A12.47 | “Driving the Big Loop”
First Line: We began to belong in the country.
Accepted by: Hawk & Whippoorwill.
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August 1, 1960 |
A12.48 | “Dust Bowl Years”
First Line: We had to see our farm despised.
Accepted by: Focus Midwest.
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May 1, 1956 |
A12.49 | “Elegy for Arthur L.
Throckmorton”
First Line: Birds at the cemetery sing as wise as they can.
Accepted by: Little Review.
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December 1, 1962 |
A12.50 | “Extended Haiku”
First Line: Why did my wife buy for my desk.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
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September 1, 1963 |
A12.51 | “Extension”
First Line: Into the daylight I follow a blind man.
Accepted by: Wascana Review.
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April 1, 1953 |
A12.52 | “Faculty Bulletin Filler”
First Line: The seminar in logic meets under a fan.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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October 1, 1965 |
A12.53 | “Faculty Portraits I: The Part-Time
Teacher in English”
First Line: The old lady from the employment bureau.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review .
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October 1, 1961 |
A12.54 | “Faculty Portraits II: Old Mrs. Berg in
Foreign Languages”
First Line: Knitting two needles to make them.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review .
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October 1, 1961 |
A12.55 | “Faculty Portraits IV: The Political
Scientist”
First Line: People weren’t worth his politics, he felt.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review .
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August 1, 1961 |
A12.56 | “Fall”
First Line: As the air thins - cold weather.
Accepted by: Nosegay in Black.
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October 1, 1964 |
A12.57 | “Family Drive”
First Line: Sweeping toward us over the hills.
Accepted by: Ladies’ Home Journal.
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February 1, 1954 |
A12.58 | “Father’s Things in the Attic”
First Line: The state forgot to forbid.
Accepted by: The Journal.
|
August 1, 1965 |
A12.59 | “5 A.M. in Summer”
First Line: Day says, “Again.” A lost bird.
Accepted by: Poetry Australia.
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May 1, 1966 |
A12.60 | “For a Colleague Who Took His
Life”
First Line: News of his death peeled off the yellow car.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
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August 1, 1966 |
A12.61 | “For a Friend I Never Found”
First Line: This picture develops in absolute silence.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
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November 1, 1966 |
A12.62 | “For All Those Gone Who Bowed or
Stopped”
First Line: Armies are marching with flags down a long street.
Accepted by: Carleton Misc..
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December 1, 1960 |
A12.63 | “For Certain Little Magazines We Won’t
Bother to Name”
First Line: These bears that howl their wounds.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter and Special
Libraries.
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February 1, 1964 |
A12.64 | “Forest People [Whystop, Oregon/Two Towns
in Oregon]”
First Line: Whystop, a town made with trees.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1964 |
A12.65 | “For President Morgan Odell”
First Line: Students and faculty and Mr. President.
Accepted by: Lewis & Clark Voyageur.
|
January 1, 1949 |
A12.66 | “For the Library in Liberal,
Kansas”
First Line: Tranced like a cloud, that faint.
Accepted by: The Poetry Bag.
|
September 1, 1965 |
A12.67 | “From a Contemporary
Theologian”
First Line: In our home rocket, one part.
Accepted by: Southwester.
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May 1, 1966 |
A12.68 | “From a Train Window”
First Line: Shading my forehead I held our land.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
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March 1, 1955 |
A12.69 | “From Exile”
First Line: Going around in their slow day.
Accepted by: December.
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December 1, 1954 |
A12.70 | “From the Head Archer at
Warwick”
First Line: Because we deal simply by arrivals.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
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September 20, 1962 |
A12.71 | “Galway’s New Poem”
First Line: Close, where the unborn eyes begin to swim.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal and Stone
Drum.
|
May 1, 1969 |
A12.72 | “Gauguin”
First Line: Forth from all stone continents forever.
Accepted by: The Goodly Co..
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March 1, 1954 |
A12.73 | “Genesis”
First Line: This apple story - let it roll a moment.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
April 4, 1952 |
A12.74 | “Glass”
First Line: The perfect window is nothing. You.
Accepted by: Jason.
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March 1, 1966 |
A12.75 | “Glimpses, Medallions”
First Line: A possum caught its odd-shape breath.
Accepted by: Baby John.
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May 1, 1965 |
A12.76 | “Good Man”
First Line: Maybe a lawyer, you come to.
Accepted by: The Poetry Bag.
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October 1, 1965 |
A12.77 | “Greeting”
First Line: Sun at the door today: “Found you!”.
Accepted by: World Order.
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July 1, 1961 |
A12.78 | “Halloween”
First Line: It was a tall figure in a mask.
Accepted by: Roanoke Review.
|
November 1, 1966 |
A12.79 | “Home Place”
First Line: That grit farm land grain by grain.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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February 1, 1953 |
A12.80 | “How to Call the Universe”
First Line: Telephone and LIght, once on a journey.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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October 1, 1966 |
A12.81 | “How to Live with a Volcano”
First Line: Be alert..
Accepted by: St. Andrews Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
A12.82 | “In an Old High School Album”
First Line: The light inside that camera accepted.
Accepted by: University Portland Review.
|
October 1, 1966 |
A12.83 | “In Anthropology”
First Line: Backward and upside down, but with an.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
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October 1, 1968 |
A12.84 | “In Atlantis or New York”
First Line: They still do not have the right kind of money,
Accepted by: December.
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June 1, 1961 |
A12.85 | “In California”
First Line: Someone is running.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
A12.86 | “In Certain Homes”
First Line: In certain homes people with keepsakes lean.
Accepted by: Spender.
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June 1, 1955 |
A12.87 | “In Chihuahua”
First Line: A sky like one-way glass persuades you.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
November 1, 1967 |
A12.88 | “In Hagenback Park”
First Line: For days I forget that stare in the zoo,
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
A12.89 | “In School”
First Line: So the world can see into our eyes.
Accepted by: The Record .
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July 1, 1968 |
A12.90 | “In the Bronte Country”
First Line: Emily’s room looks out on the graves...
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
June 25, 1969 |
A12.91 | “In the Postoffice”
First Line: Wanted: Al Halstead, alias Hal Alstead.
Accepted by: The Poetry Bag.
|
March 1, 1966 |
A12.92 | “In This Traffic, in This
Time”
First Line: Let the car turn, gleam, be the Cadillac.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
A12.93 | “Isolationists”
First Line: In Kansas there wasn’t any tide.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly Review.
|
January 1, 1964 |
A12.94 | “Karma”
First Line: Gandhi falling made the sign of faith.
Accepted by: Listen.
|
July 1, 1957 |
A12.95 | “Late at the Hospital”
First Line: The candle so silent, then the sound.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
February 1, 1970 |
A12.96 | “Laurie’s Choir”
First Line: Light from the suNorthwestard window hunts.
Accepted by: Poem.
|
February 1, 1967 |
A12.97 | “Learning to Be Humble and
Dumb”
First Line: Wyoming taught pioneers not to be clever,
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
January 1, 1965 |
A12.98 | “Lesson One Spring”
First Line: One spring when I was a boy.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
November 1, 1964 |
A12.99 | “Listen, My Children”
First Line: Before men made moons.
Accepted by: Expedition.
|
November 1, 1957 |
A12.100 | “Local Item”
First Line: No heart hurt, but all reguarded,
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
November 1, 1966 |
A12.101 | “Locality”
First Line: Rivers have rivers in them,
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly .
|
December 21, 1962 |
A12.102 | “Long Cool Summers”
First Line: Look where summer was, long.
Accepted by: The Journal.
|
October 1, 1965 |
A12.103 | “Love Is a Dangerous God”
First Line: Now that place on the back of your. A
ccepted by: Cafe Solo.
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May 1, 1968 |
A12.104 | “Lucy Poem”
First Line: In our little town before the day train.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
April 1, 1954 |
A12.105 | “Map in the Dean’s Office”
First Line: Interviews follow a valley.
Accepted by: University of Tampa Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1958 |
A12.106 | “Meditation”
First Line: The man ahead of me in church.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
March 1, 1963 |
A12.107 | “Memorandum”
First Line: You’ll see some time.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
December 1, 1964 |
A12.108 | “Translation of Longfellow,
'Milton'”
First Line: Once alone on the Coast I saw this Hell.
Accepted by: Northwest Review .
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September 1, 1967 |
A12.109 | “Milton Game”
First Line: We are lost with all that was best.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
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August 1, 1969 |
A12.110 | “Minority Report”
First Line: A master sent this picture out. It won.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
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December 1, 1961 |
A12.111 | “In the Manner of Vern Rutsala:
Monday”
First Line: Awake like a hippopotamus with eyes bulged.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.112 | “My Application”
First Line: The committee bends over my trip.
Accepted by: Special Libraries.
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September 1, 1969 |
A12.113 | “My Head Apologizes to an Oldfashioned
Teacher”
First Line: Emblems where your hat was - a cross,
Accepted by: Sou’ wester.
|
June 1, 1967 |
A12.114 | “My Parents Were Simple Folk”
First Line: While the hunter plunged where he wanted to go,
Accepted by: Quarterly Review of Literature.
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August 1, 1963 |
A12.115 | “New Family from Chicago”
First Line: Their cat comes on little fog feet.
Accepted by: Special Libraries.
|
September 1, 1969 |
A12.116 | “New Tombstones ”
First Line: They rush through the evening light.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
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September 1, 1967 |
A12.117 | “Night Words”
First Line: My hand invented sorrow.
Accepted by: Fiddlehead.
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January 1, 1947 |
A12.118 | “Note for Historians of the Assassination
of President Kennedy”
First Line: They wrote his life who write.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
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March 1, 1964 |
A12.119 | “Notes from a Summer Abroad”
First Line: The moon, that had God’s name and wore.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
A12.120 | “Old Mountaineer Starts the
Day”
First Line: Patient, I wait by the kitchen table.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
September 1, 1966 |
A12.121 | “On a Misty Morning”
First Line: Men who dream the world.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1964 |
A12.122 | “On an Early Picture of the
College”
First Line: Sentiment, or some other kind of ivy, won’t let.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
January 1, 1956 |
A12.123 | “On a Picture Sent by a Friend in
Ohio”
First Line: This awakened water coming to touch.
Accepted by: Elizabeth.
|
November 22, 1968 |
A12.124 | “On being Invited to a Testimonial
Dinner”
First Line: We are trained and quiet intellectuals.
Accepted by: Liberation.
|
February 1, 1956 |
A12.125 | “Once They Believed These
Mountains”
First Line: And the wide forest surrounded.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
October 1, 1969 |
A12.126 | “On Earth”
First Line: In Wyoming, high, often cold or.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1966 |
A12.127 | “Only Thing Pure Water Says Is
‘And’”
First Line: Just listen to the river, it’s long story.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
October 1, 1964 |
A12.128 | “On That Farm”
First Line: Those birds came down their.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
February 1, 1970 |
A12.129 | “On the Freeway”
First Line: A late driver listens. Police.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
March 1, 1964 |
A12.130 | “On the Haiku”
First Line: Haiku go this this.
Accepted by: The Activist.
|
June 1, 1966 |
A12.131 | “On Winter Ridge”
First Line: I tense my shoulder. No one knows.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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May 1, 1967 |
A12.132 | “Orientations”
First Line: Thought, an instinct, wavers for policy.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
February 1, 1966 |
A12.133 | “Penseroso”
First Line: When rain flies down wherever it can through the grass.
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
April 1, 1955 |
A12.134 | “Phrases”
First Line: Slow as molasses” my mother called spring.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
January 1, 1966 |
A12.135 | “Picking Up Chores”
First Line: Picking up chores the first fall day.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 4, 1952 |
A12.136 | “Picture Man”
First Line: Somewhere in this town like broken jewelry.
Accepted by: Doones.
|
December 1, 1967 |
A12.137 | “Placement of Material”
First Line: May the air somewhere find Marjorie.
Accepted by: Granta.
|
February 1, 1962 |
A12.138 | “Plea by Way of the Ladies, from the
Poets”
First Line: Like sorrow and their scarves, history.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
June 1, 1965 |
A12.139 | “Portrait of a Refugee
Musician”
First Line: He blinked awake, a child, a shriek.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1965 |
A12.140 | “Prodigal”
First Line: After Shakespeare the wandering tongue.
Accepted by: Another Poetry Anthology.
|
December 1, 1960 |
A12.141 | “Prologue for a Tragedy”
First Line: This is the queen, who will die.
Accepted by: The Garret.
|
February 1, 1966 |
A12.142 | “Puppy That Came for Nobody’s
Hand”
First Line: Years later, on some far mesa, that dog would stand.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
|
August 1, 1958 |
A12.143 | “Quaker at the Worldly
College”
First Line: I learn, like a limousine, Sir Wisdom through. Accepted by:
Critical Quarterly and Poetry
Northwest.
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January 1, 1964 |
A12.144 | “Quaker Meeting”
First Line: It is wrong for the world ever to be a picture.
Accepted by: Stand.
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February 1, 1965 |
A12.145 | “Questions to Ask in
Salzburg?”
First Line: Are people outside the church ever honored.
Accepted by: Taratara.
|
August 1, 1969 |
A12.146 | “Reading Wordsworth”
First Line: You earn the world back by.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
July 1, 1968 |
A12.147 | “Real Truth But Not an Indictment of Any
Governor”
First Line: Here comes the Governor’s limousine cruising at seventy.
Accepted by: Seattle Magazine.
|
March 1, 1963 |
A12.148 | “Recall”
First Line: Image of me, I follow, eyes closed.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly Review.
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January 5, 1949 |
A12.149 | “Report from Over the
Mountains”
First Line: News that reaches a cliff and is answered.
Accepted by: The Garret.
|
April 1, 1968 |
A12.150 | “Rescue”
First Line: Beside me perch all the birds we owned.
Accepted by: Medford Tribune.
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April 1, 1955 |
A12.151 | “Research”
First Line: Inside that blast where the deaf live.
Accepted by: Lillabulero.
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May 1, 1966 |
A12.152 | “Returning”
First Line: It starts at the state line, returning; “Torque”.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
May 1, 1967 |
A12.153 | “Reverberation”
First Line: The refrigerator talks, nudges the wall.
Accepted by: New York Times.
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February 1, 1963 |
A12.154 | “Riddles”
First Line: You are looking at me now.
Accepted by: The Human Voice.
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September 1, 1968 |
A12.155 | “R. L. Stevenson Tree on Oahu”
First Line: Here under the trade wind that breaks off.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
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November 1, 1967 |
A12.156 | “San Miguel”
First Line: That old man on two sticks in the plaza.
Accepted by: The Voyageur.
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April 1, 1965 |
A12.157 | “Sheep in a Ghost Town”
First Line: Sheep cried, then grayed near from hills.
Accepted by: World Order.
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July 1, 1965 |
A12.158 | “Sidelong at a Beach”
First Line: A steel chain binds an arm.
Accepted by: Preview.
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September 1, 1965 |
A12.159 | “Singers Near the Airport at
Spokane”
First Line: When the sun touches the ground, larks.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
July 1, 1967 |
A12.160 | “Society Column”
First Line: At this party I picked the wrong.
Accepted by: The Nation.
|
May 1, 1966 |
A12.161 | “Statement on regionalism”
First Line: All events and experiences are local.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
August 1, 1967 |
A12.162 | “Still Days”
First Line: All night we practiced being no one.
Accepted by: Dryad.
|
July 1, 1965 |
A12.163 | “Subsistence”
First Line: Remember for good one little strange thing: last fall.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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December 1, 1959 |
A12.164a | “Suburban Report 1: Our
Situation”
First Line: Geese have taken to checking our town of late.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.164b | “Suburban Report 2: At a Traffic
Light”
First Line: Engines rehearse probability.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.164c | “Suburban Report 3: A Memorandum About How
to See the Old”
First Line: The poor, who own estates we hardly know.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.165 | “Suburban Report 4: A Conversation in
Front of a Church”
First Line: Tradition is out. What was.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.165 | “Suburban Report 5: Distancing Our Town -
An Early View”
First Line: At the edge of our woods one morning.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.165 | “Suburban Report 6: A Temporary Seeing:
Piano Town”
First Line: In that land this land recedes from no one.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.166 | “Suburban Report 7: The Observer, On His
Way, Continues to Search”
First Line: If I open my hand, the line there still says.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
September 1, 1963 |
A12.167 | “Summer in Montana”
First Line: If we built on the slope.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1965 |
A12.168 | “Summer Song”
First Line: Let the tide cream near. Why.
Accepted by: The Journal.
|
October 1, 1965 |
A12.169 | “Sunday Morning Before
Daylight”
First Line: Air all over valley through all hand.
Accepted by: The Oregonian.
|
February 1, 1957 |
A12.170 | “Then”
First Line: It was all simple and square.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
January 31, 1955 |
A12.171 | “Thinking About Marriage”
First Line: We thought the wheels, then their.
Accepted by: St. Andrews Review.
|
December 1, 1968 |
A12.172 | “Thinking of Herbert Burke’s
Farm”
First Line: A certain chickenhouse, the way the door.
Accepted by: Carleton Misc.
|
February 1, 1964 |
A12.173 | “Three Down the Middle 1:
Faith”
First Line: Someone comes by and says they know.
Accepted by: The Activist.
|
April 1, 1967 |
A12.173 | “Three Down the Middle 2:
Storms”
First Line: Limbs fall. Wind garbles.
Accepted by: The Activist.
|
April 1, 1967 |
A12.173 | “Three Down the Middle 3: Natural
Rights”
First Line: You see a tent curve over a family.
Accepted by: The Activist.
|
April 1, 1967 |
A12.174 | “Through Nature to Eternity”
First Line: A man taps a message out. A water pipe, say.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
May 1, 1968 |
A12.175 | “Thunder Clouds”
First Line: One by one people abandon caution.
Accepted by: The Fair.
|
December 1, 1966 |
A12.176 | “To All Poets Today”
First Line: There was a bird that sang one time.
Accepted by: Driftwood.
|
October 1, 1955 |
A12.177 | “To Friends in an Iowa Town”
First Line: Dandelions in that air where nothing.
Accepted by: Seven.
|
October 1, 1968 |
A12.178 | “To a Colleague Fulbrighting in
Finland”
First Line: Our near course ends with you gone far.
Accepted by: Voices.
|
September 13, 1957 |
A12.179 | “To Post in World Capitals”
First Line: Under old newspapers in the park.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
|
December 1, 1964 |
A12.180 | “Transfusion”
First Line: Again, for months, you live by.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
February 1, 1965 |
A12.181 | “Trying Not to Write”
First Line: Sudden as red is, today arrives.
Accepted by: Elizabeth.
|
September 1, 1968 |
A12.182 | “Two Generations - A Legend from
Japan”
First Line: A boy cherished by his parents.
Accepted by: Quixote.
|
November 1, 1966 |
A12.183 | “Two Kinds of Faith”
First Line: Some things I know hard.
Accepted by: Arizona Quarterly.
|
April 12, 1947 |
A12.184 | “Two Poems from India about
Bravery”
First Line: Yes, bandits carry tiger insurance here.
Accepted by: The Goodly Co.
|
December 1, 1965 |
A12.185 | “Visit to Boston”
First Line: Too many ways to say “Truth” compete.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
March 1, 1965 |
A12.186 | “Walk in December”
First Line: Migrations of little positive things.
Accepted by: Portland University Review .
|
December 1, 1954 |
A12.187 | “Walking with the Blind Girl”
First Line: We enter a hall in the music building.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
|
January 1, 1966 |
A12.188 | “Walking with Walter Mead at Santa
Barbara”
First Line: Each time too late, we saw.
Accepted by: Temper.
|
July 1, 1964 |
A12.189 | “Walk in the Wordsworth
Country”
First Line: I walk their kingdom with my stupid feet.
Accepted by: Back Door.
|
September 1, 1969 |
A12.190 | “War Season”
First Line: The birds that winter blew past our yard.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
April 18, 1945 |
A12.191 | “Watchmen”
First Line: In rooms at night.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
December 1, 1964 |
A12.192 | “Way Rain Falls”
First Line: Fathers house towered.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
October 26, 1943 |
A12.193 | “Way Rocks Fall”
First Line: The school fanatics run where.
Accepted by: Elizabeth.
|
March 1, 1957 |
A12.194 | “Way to Say It”
First Line: We found a place for our town.
Accepted by: Friends of Seattle Market.
|
February 1, 1958 |
A12.195 | “Western”
First Line: It all uncoils because the land humps real.
Accepted by: Denver Quarterly.
|
April 1, 1957 |
A12.196 | “We Three”
First Line: My fat hog remember.
Accepted by: Sponsa Regis.
|
August 14, 1945 |
A12.197 | “When no one Knocks”
First Line: You come to the door. Out there.
Accepted by: Cafe Solo.
|
January 1, 1968 |
A12.198 | “When running is all you can
do”
First Line: When running is all you can do.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
November 8, 1958 |
A12.199 | “While the Clock Ticks”
First Line: Across the plain some doll goes. You.
Accepted by: Road Apple Review.
|
January 1, 1967 |
A12.200 | “With Some Artists at Fort
Rock”
First Line: A sundown after nothing - all that.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
May 1, 1965 |
A12.201 | “Withdrawn from Circulation”
First Line: They are making new stories faster than people can read.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
October 15, 1962 |
A12.202 | “Emily”
First Line: On that page where the whole world moved.
Accepted by: Emily Dickenson Anthology.
|
April 1, 1961 |
A12.203 | “Writing Early Any Morning”
First Line: When I was little, and bowed.
Accepted by: Pebble.
|
September 1, 1968 |
A12.204 | “You Too”
First Line: Down from rock to shale to sand.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
May 14, 1960 |
A2: Typed Copies of Poems in unpublished put-together titled Les Miserables, 1937-1943Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 2/Folder A2
Written in Los Prietos, California.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A2.1 | "Week End in Santa Barbara"
First Line: A girl smiles Eden; the wind blows Arabia.
|
June 1, 1942 |
A2.2 | "Night Sound"
First Line: An acorn falls on our roof in the night.
|
September 2, 1942 |
A2.3 | "Looking down from a Mountain"
First Line: Everyone in that town is bloat with a bitterness.
|
August 11, 1943 |
A2.4 | "Executive"
First Line: He cooes his vast affairs thru looping wires.
|
July 1, 1942 |
A2.5 | "World, Broken"
First Line: I am going away now, remembering.
|
April 14, 1943 |
A2.6 | "Like Whitman"
First Line: If any time was used preparing.
|
August 27, 1943 |
A2.7 | untitled
First Line: I had a comrade. I guess he lost his way.
|
July 6, 1943 |
A2.8 | "Far Down, a River"
First Line: I held the little trees away.
|
January 15, 1943 |
A2.9 | "Incident"
First Line: I lived an instant, leaning at rest.
|
November 3, 1942 |
A2.10 | untitled
First Line: Insistent at the balconies of leaves.
|
May 2, 1942 |
A2.11 | "Dark-Browed Rough Pacifist"
First Line: In these rooms where light curtains blow.
|
August 15, 1942 |
A2.12 | "Exile (1)"
First Line: In this gray pine-held land of furtive eyes.
|
May 3, 1942 |
A2.13 | "Circle"
First Line: I steeply think of you, then drag my breath.
|
November 2, 1942 |
A2.14 | "Acacia"
First Line: I wanted to close her eyes, and went.
|
March 10, 1943 |
A2.15 | untitled
First Line: It does not take a blaze to prove I’ve seen.
|
January 11, 1943 |
A2.15 | untitled
First Line: Jack wore a bright red shirt today.
|
January 11, 1943 |
A2.16 | "Face"
First Line: Many were the stealthy years, and caravans nosing. Accepted
by: Illiterati.
|
December 27, 1943 |
A2.17 | "Possibility"
First Line: My gull thoughts may swerve along a shore.
|
November 4, 1942 |
A2.18 | F"rom the Sound of Peace"
First Line: Now is glass and an egg and gossamer in the wind.
|
October 18, 1942 |
A2.19 | untitled
First Line: One day in youth with laughing friends surrounded.
|
January 1, 1938 |
A2.20 | "Discovery"
First Line: One day turning, unresting in mountain sunlight.
|
October 1, 1941 |
A2.21 | "C.O. Park Project"
First Line: On vehement-green Southern sod.
|
April 7, 1942 |
A2.22 | untitled
First Line: Out of sleep I came with open eyes.
|
August 18, 1943 |
A2.23 | "Likenesses"
First Line: Over the prairie birds fly high.
|
August 1, 1941 |
A2.24 | "Truth Is Where You Find It"
First Line: She cried out and held me, but she did not love me.
|
October 10, 1941 |
A2.25 | untitled
First Line: spoke about sacrifice.
|
November 7, 1943 |
A2.26 | "Social Call"
First Line: The pale June garden was high green springtime.
|
August 14, 1942 |
A2.27 | "Commonplaces"
First Line: They kill in this war, but not from a sickness.
|
August 12, 1942 |
A2.27 | "Southwest"
First Line: This is the tangy land of wide, strong, sunlit places.
|
July 1, 1940 |
A2.28 | "Then" [1942]
First Line: This low and beyond beauty voice of things.
|
December 1, 1942 |
A2.29 | "For a Christmas Sonnet"
First Line: Though wind be iron against ringing hill.
|
September 1, 1942 |
A2.30 | untitled
First Line: Time fills the canyon, stillness of dim bowl.
|
June 17, 1942 |
A2.31 | "Names for Our Lives"
First Line: To give our lives a name, a realm to talk in.
|
October 6, 1941 |
A3: Typed Copies of Poems in unpublished put-together titled Collected Verse (1937 to 1943), 1937-1944Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 2/Folder A3
Written in Los Prietos, California.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A3.1 | “Instructions for Applicants”
First Line: Ella should live on a street like a song.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
October 5, 1941 |
A3.2 | “Instructions for Applicants”
First Line: Ella should live on a street like a song.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
December 1, 1941 |
A3.3 | “Current”
First Line: All braided into torrents falls.
|
August 15, 1943 |
A3.4 | “Oh Never]”
First Line: Because we oh no never.
|
April 2, 1942 |
A3.5 | “Experiment”
First Line: Blue, blue forever ever and ever falling.
|
April 8, 1942 |
A3.6 | “Current Interest”
First Line: By chance the eyes nose mouth, the flat of jaw.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
January 1, 1940 |
A3.7 | “Director”
First Line: Come down, branch, along the window. There..
|
August 16, 1942 |
A3.8 | “Los Prietos”
First Line: Dear friends, the swarthy earth shoulders into....
|
June 20, 1942 |
A3.9 | “Los Prietos”
First Line: Doves in the dust of our pacifist camp.
Accepted by: CPS Magazine.
|
August 18, 1942 |
A3.10 | “Way Men Walk”
First Line: falling forward.
|
August 1, 1942 |
A3.11 | “Puppy -- Cinnamon Lady”
First Line: I do not believe in those eyes, soundless.
|
October 19, 1942 |
A3.12 | “untitled”
First Line: I do not know how that fine dust rises.
|
December 31, 1943 |
A3.13 | “Meditation]”
First Line: If I could remember all at once -- but I have forgotten.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
March 11, 1943 |
A3.14 | “Prison Camp”
First Line: I heard the homeless laugh.
|
June 1, 1943 |
A3.15 | “Stranger in Town”
First Line: I looked for the town.
|
June 8, 1942 |
A3.16 | “Tragedy”
First Line: In a big plank room in the mountains.
|
March 12, 1943 |
A3.17 | “untitled”
First Line: Into the light with a cry.
|
September 1, 1943 |
A3.18 | “untitled”
First Line: I was there when it happened.
|
August 7, 1943 |
A3.19 | “Search”
First Line: I went in every house and every room.
Accepted by: Illiterati.
|
February 18, 1943 |
A3.20 | “Portrait of Johnny Johnson”
First Line: Johnny has found his rock.
|
November 21, 1943 |
A3.21 | “CO’s Work on Mt. Road”
First Line: Like bay trees on the edge of La Cumbre Peak.
Accepted by: Illiterati.
|
December 23, 1942 |
A3.22 | “Medals Are Pieces of Silver”
First Line: Medals are fastened with ribbon.
Accepted by: The Compass.
|
December 4, 1943 |
A3.23 | “Artist”
First Line: Men store their carefulness in things.
|
April 5, 1942 |
A3.24 | “Walking at Night”
First Line: Now I am alone, following the downwar slur.
|
March 13, 1943 |
A3.25 | “Our Men”
First Line: Our men walk lightly and scatter over the mountains.
Accepted by: Illiterati.
|
September 15, 1943 |
A3.26 | “Snow”
First Line: Silently down from Big Pine Mountains, white.
|
November 5, 1942 |
A3.27 | “Baby at Our House”
First Line: Snowflake in the life of the world.
Accepted by: Gospel Messenger.
|
May 31, 1943 |
A3.28 | “Country Company”
First Line: Song, where shall I hold your width.
|
September 6, 1943 |
A3.29 | “Artistes”
First Line: Their gains are small in the campaign.
|
January 23, 1943 |
A3.30 | “untitled”
First Line: Their voices were stilled across the land.
|
May 1, 1942 |
A3.31 | “Stranger”
First Line: There is a person who listens*.
|
September 18, 1943 |
A3.32 | “Apology”
First Line: There was a flowering bush one time by where I ....
|
May 13, 1943 |
A3.33 | “Men in Chapel”
First Line: These valiant, these sailers without qualm.
Accepted by: CPS Magazine.
|
April 9, 1942 |
A3.34 | “Explorers”
First Line: They said it was the Great Divide.
|
November 9, 1943 |
A3.35 | “untitled”
First Line: They say sound is the ear and sight the eye.
|
February 11, 1943 |
A3.36 | “untitled”
First Line: Just at sundown, this is the heart.
|
September 1, 1943 |
A3.37 | “Discovery”
First Line: This land, the coast I found, the low dark line.
|
August 1, 1942 |
A3.38 | “Communication [to the
Alienated]*”
First Line: This turn of the hand is for them.
|
April 6, 1942 |
A3.39 | “Communique”
First Line: This whimpering child is an army.
|
August 11, 1943 |
A3.40 | “Possession”
First Line: We have a Sabbath; it’s from long ago.
|
March 9, 1943 |
A3.41 | “Inspirational Talk”
First Line: We must dedicate our lives!” The speaker views.
|
March 4, 1942 |
A3.42 | “White Pigeons”
First Line: What’s that --.
|
April 1, 1937 |
A3.43 | “Rebels”
First Line: When we look up from sorrow toward the dark.
|
October 17, 1942 |
A3.44 | “untitled”
First Line: While we sat on the lawn in the shade.
|
July 5, 1943 |
A3.45 | “untitled”
First Line: Why should I fray grass with the feet*.
|
April 3, 1942 |
A3.46 | “Escape”
First Line: With runaway wild smoke across the brain.
|
April 1, 1942 |
A4: Typed Copies of Poems in an unpublished put-together titled Survivors - Poems of 1944., 1944Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 2/Folder A4
Compiled at Gansner Bar, California on January 8, 1945.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A4.1 and A4.2 | 4 page index |
|
A4.3 | “Then" [1944]
First Line: I will call you by your softest name.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
January 22, 1944 |
A4.4 | “A Posy" [Hi, Neighbor!]
First Line: Some people keep a large and savage messiah.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 20, 1944 |
A4.4 | “In Our Time”
First Line: The wrath of God is offered at a fire sale.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
September 20, 1944 |
A4.4 | “Pin Boys”
First Line: We are pinboys at their bowling alley.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
September 20, 1944 |
A4.5 | “To a Gold Star Mother”
First Line: Which are the men who killed your son?.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
March 23, 1944 |
A4.6 | “For Poems - ‘42 & ‘43”
First Line: I carry pieces of my world before the crowd.
|
May 5, 1944 |
A4.7 | “At a Little Church”
First Line: Following the velvet trail, I found their shrine.
Accepted by: Gospel Messenger.
|
March 25, 1944 |
A4.8 | “The Way Rain Falls”
First Line: Father’s house stood.
|
October 26, 1943 |
A4.9 | “Carnadine”
First Line: A red army is advancing.
|
May 6, 1944 |
A4.10 | “untitled”
First Line: Death was there one morning.
|
November 1, 1944 |
A4.11 | “untitled”
First Line: A man with grey long coat, with half-soled shoes.
|
June 14, 1944 |
A4.12 | untitled
First Line: Go home, little world.
Accepted by: Saturday Review of Literature.
|
July 1, 1944 |
A4.13 | “Nocturne" [At Night]
First Line: Gone, gone. So silent..
|
October 22, 1943 |
A4.14 | “Red”
First Line: He was like everyone else,.
|
May 31, 1944 |
A4.15 | untitled
First Line: I do not love the truth.
|
September 21, 1944 |
A4.16 | “Counsel”
First Line: If any ask, say yes.
|
May 24, 1944 |
A4.17 | untitled
First Line: In front of theaters I see the tall and bold.
|
May 21, 1944 |
A4.18 | untitled
First Line: It’s an old story.
|
May 29, 1944 |
A4.19 | “These Mornings”
First Line: Watch our smoke curdle up out of the chimney.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
January 20, 1944 |
A4.20 and A4. 21 | “Speech from the Big Play" [height over
the cabin]
First Line: Not many of you in the world remember.
|
November 1, 1944 |
A4.22 | “Trapped”
First Line: Now, gardens bound our world.
|
March 13, 1944 |
A4.23 | “Fire in Lava Country”
First Line: Part of the earth not made to walk on.
|
May 28, 1944 |
A4.24 | untitled
First Line: Shall we have that singing in the evening?.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
January 19, 1944 |
A4.25 | “[November Incident]”
First Line: Silent the big dark ranger came down.
|
May 27, 1944 |
A4.26 | “Laguna Beach”
First Line: The beach professionals.
|
April 20, 1944 |
A4.27 | “untitled”
First Line: The one who said “No violence”.
|
May 21, 1944 |
A4.28 | “Happy Journey!”
First Line: The person with our treasure swings.
Accepted by: Common Sense, Saturday Review of
Literature.
|
May 31, 1944 |
A4.29 | “War Guilt”
First Line: The pupil of the son.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
March 9, 1944 |
A4.30 | “Speech from a Play”
First Line: The reason you cannot say anything is....
|
January 21, 1944 |
A4.31 | untitled
First Line: There are no mountains here, no sea, no name.
|
May 24, 1944 |
A4.32 | untitled
First Line: There was a roar in battle, Jericho to come,.
Accepted by: Fellowship; Saturday Review of Literature; and
Atlantic.
|
December 2, 1943 |
A4.33 | untitled
First Line: There was a time when valor wore old shoes.
Accepted by: Pacifist Verse?.
|
November 6, 1943 |
A4.34 | untitled
First Line: They handle the ripe smooth fruit.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
October 14, 1944 |
A4.35 | untitled
First Line: They taught me to be hurt.
|
September 18, 1944 |
A4.36 | “Listening" [Something about
Music]
First Line: Our wilderness, the world.
|
October 1, 1944 |
A4.37 | untitled
First Line: They flawed when struck.
|
September 21, 1944 |
A4.38 | “One Friend”
First Line: To drink the dark we close the eyes.
Accepted by: Tiger’s Eye.
|
November 4, 1944 |
A4.39 | untitled
First Line: Turn off the lamp, wait,.
|
October 23, 1943 |
A4.40 | “[Little Stranger]?”
First Line: Walking away, bending his knees.
|
August 16, 1944 |
A4.41 | untitled
First Line: We hear, whispering in our veins.
|
July 1, 1944 |
A4.42 | “Christmas Comes But Once a
Year”
First Line: What they told us on Christmas was all right.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
February 13, 1944 |
A4.43 | “We Kindred”
First Line: Whoever stands uncertain in the night.
Accepted by: Saturday Review of Literature.
|
June 7, 1944 |
A4.44 | “Words One Summer”
First Line: Words were our summer.
|
August 1, 1944 |
A4.45 | “Reproof”
First Line: You driving 35.
|
April 20, 1944 |
A4.46 | untitled
First Line: You might as well put.
|
March 31, 1944 |
A4.47 | untitled
First Line: Your tragedy before the ship goes down.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
December 21, 1943 |
A4.1: Typed Copies of Poems in an unpublished put-together titled Some of the Words We Said., ???Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 2/Folder A4.1
Compiled at ???? on January 8, 1945.
A5: Typed Copies of Poems from 1945, 1945Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 2/Folder A5
Mostly unpublished poems.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A5.1 | “Before the Big Storm”
First Line: You are famous in my mind.
|
January 3, 1945 |
A5.2 | “Victory”
First Line: All violent like the knife that drove.
|
August 16, 1945 |
A5.3 | “Alone They Set the Only God”
First Line: Alone they set the only God.
|
August 14, 1945 |
A5.4 | “On a Militaristic Church
Service”
First Line: And there I sat on my swami.
|
September 8, 1945 |
A5.5 | “Note On Solemn War””
First Line: A note on solemn war.
|
August 17, 1945 |
A5.6 | “From Battle”
First Line: Catch the pattering soul, God, with.
|
January 10, 1945 |
A5.7 | “For Bessie, who always …”
First Line: For Bessie, who always knew pain.
|
January 10, 1945 |
A5.8 | “He whetted his wit…”
First Line: He whetted his wit on words.
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April 14, 1945 |
A5.9 | “I came out of blindness-”
First Line: I came out of blindness-.
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January 1, 1945 |
A5.10 | “I come from afar””
First Line: I come from afar.
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September 22, 1945 |
A5.11 | “I had forgotten the clown…”
First Line: I had forgotten the clown in me.
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March 15, 1945 |
A5.12 | “Flickerings”
First Line: I’m glad the heart sleeps.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
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March 15, 1945 |
A5.13 | “One Place I Saw”
First Line: In that bright place the earth is always dry.
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January 1, 1945 |
A5.14 | “Softly”
First Line: I want an old sunset.
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August 18, 1945 |
A5.15 | “Farewell Note”
First Line: Like a big black dog we followed their question home.
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March 11, 1945 |
A5.16 | “Listener Farewell Note” [Short
Story]
First Line: Like a big black dog I followed your question home.
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March 11, 1945 |
A5.17 | “Sound: Summer 1945”
First Line: Not a loud sound, the buzz of the rattlesnake.
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August 1, 1945 |
A5.18 | “Sound: Summer 1945”
First Line: Not a loud sound, the buzz of the rattlesnake.
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August 8, 1945 |
A5.19 | “So mildly there…”
First Line: So mildly there from far away.
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April 13, 1945 |
A5.20 | “Square on a German wagon”
First Line: Square on a German wagon.
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August 10, 1945 |
A5.21 | “That land spoke””
First Line: That land spoke.
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March 9, 1945 |
A5.22 | “Occupied City”
First Line: The biggen weight was iron.
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November 27, 1945 |
A5.23 | “first thing that grows..”
First Line: The first thing that grows in the spring.
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July 28, 1945 |
A5.24 | “Translation from the Yaqui”
First Line: The hairy faced who walk like aged bears.
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May 1, 1945 |
A5.25 | untitled
First Line: The little days have known, with their big eyes.
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April 28, 1945 |
A5.26 | “Mr. Conscience”
First Line: The meditative crane.
Accepted by: Grundtvig Review.
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June 6, 1945 |
A5.27 | “midgets of war…”
First Line: The midgets of war have loud hollow guns.
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May 24, 1945 |
A5.28 | “sky is hunting some one”
First Line: The sky is hunting some one-.
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March 1, 1945 |
A5.29 | “Ladies and Gentlemen”
First Line: Their tranquil lives like moss on ponds.
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December 2, 1945 |
A5.30 | “Unto a great deaf mountain”
First Line: Unto a great deaf mountain.
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January 5, 1945 |
A5.31 | “Nine-Years Old (II)”
First Line: Violence lowered its lids of silence.
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September 24, 1945 |
A5.32 | “CO Week End”
First Line: When we went into town.
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October 31, 1945 |
A5.33 | “Nine-Years Dream”
First Line: You have made tracks in our snow!.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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June 21, 1945 |
A6: Typed Documentary Copies of Published Poems, 1946Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A6
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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A6.1 | “Romantic”
First Line: I go down into truth the hard way.
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April 16, 1946 |
A6.2 | “untitled”
First Line: All around the biggest bay the curious hive.
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June 2, 1946 |
A6.3 | “Members of the Kingdom”
First Line: All over the world meeting briefly.
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December 6, 1946 |
A6.4 | “Arrow Maker”
First Line: heard the chipping.
Accepted in: Accent.
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November 3, 1946 |
A6.5 | “Trotline Treasure”
First Line: Held that gold over it.
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June 17, 1946 |
A6.6 | “Grad”
First Line: Here where the pen secretes wisdom.
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April 6, 1946 |
A6.7 | “Campanile”
First Line: How many young have gone by here slow.
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April 9, 1946 |
A6.8 | “Two Bits Worth”
First Line: I heard some oath in boots mug the red beer.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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April 11, 1946 |
A6.9 | “untitled”
First Line: I heard the shadowed quip.
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March 10, 1946 |
A6.10 | “untitled”
First Line: I thought they shouldn’t turn the light so low.
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January 12, 1946 |
A6.11 | “untitled”
First Line: Oh, ingots in gingham.
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April 5, 1946 |
A6.12 | “Persons in Mountains”
First Line: Slope raised green and on up aiming true.
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January 17, 1946 |
A6.13 | “Foundations”
First Line: Some invisible tower.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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August 16, 1946 |
A6.14 | “Out the Dark Window”
First Line: Something from somewhere bows the trees.
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November 30, 1946 |
A6.15 | “Stray No One”
First Line: That stray no one.
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October 21, 1946 |
A6.16 | “Home Town from the Flyer”
First Line: The leaves, the stir of it.
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August 28, 1946 |
A6.17 | “Humanity in the Service”
First Line: The place by the ear.
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October 14, 1946 |
A6.18 | “Gust”
First Line: The wind that knows long walls is like my mind.
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November 24, 1946 |
A6.19 | “untitled”
First Line: They listened to him say his creed.
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January 27, 1946 |
A6.20 | “untitled”
First Line: When I walked along the earth.
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May 4, 1946 |
A6.21 | “Love Was a Pup”
First Line: When I was a kid, then love was a pup.
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April 18, 1946 |
A6.22 | “To Those Among Us…”
First Line: When we saw all of our friends, the helpers together.
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March 7, 1946 |
A6.23 | “Human Song”
First Line: Whenever we loved, our hearts were rolled.
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May 16, 1946 |
A6.24 | “untitled”
First Line: While one bird bears the noon.
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September 3, 1946 |
A6.25 | “untitled”
First Line: You dropped into my morning a sound.
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March 30, 1946 |
A6.26 | “Katherine”
First Line: Your small face in the bird well.
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June 3, 1946 |
A6.27 | “Katherine”
First Line: Your small face in the bird well.
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June 3, 1946 |
A7: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems, 1947Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A7
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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A7.1 | “Walking Papers”
First Line: Foreman’s house in the shade of a tree.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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December 6, 1947 |
A7.2 | “Walking Papers”
First Line: Born in a town by a water tank.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
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December 6, 1947 |
A7.3 | “Faith”
First Line: If I could be all alone.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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October 10, 1947 |
A7.4 | “Heroes Around Here”
First Line: The one that wasn’t scared.
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November 10, 1947 |
A7.5 | “It Was This Way”
First Line: Again today I have not saved the world.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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November 30, 1947 |
A7.6 | “Leader I Met”
First Line: A leader I met.
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June 28, 1947 |
A7.7 | “untitled”
First Line: A million explosions went out.
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December 28, 1947 |
A7.8 | “Northern Coast”
First Line: Down here off the leaned back land.
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August 3, 1947 |
A7.9 | “untitled”
First Line: Down wall, cat, and the twenty claws.
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December 28, 1947 |
A7.10 | “Knives Broadways”
First Line: How many have really lived that hill?.
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September 24, 1947 |
A7.11 | “Promoters”
First Line: If the world hasn’t reminded me,.
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September 21, 1947 |
A7.12 | “Veteran”
First Line: I have jerked out of a fall.
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March 11, 1947 |
A7.13 | “To a Pessimist”
First Line: In all the world you saw.
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August 27, 1947 |
A7.14 | “Prescription for Some”
First Line: Learn somehow to achieve grey.
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September 7, 1947 |
A7.15 | “Down Town”
First Line: How one knew how to mean slow.
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February 11, 1947 |
A7.16 | “Now”
First Line: Our weight swings on a sagging hinge.
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December 18, 1947 |
A7.17 | “Now Zone”
First Line: Over the world.
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November 15, 1947 |
A7.18 | “Graduate Work”
First Line: Perched there, footed on stone, up high.
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September 5, 1947 |
A7.19 | “Every Breakfast”
First Line: Reading the morning news.
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August 2, 1947 |
A7.20 | “Withheld”
First Line: The fields may be green, or some other color.
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September 15, 1947 |
A7.21 | “Big Book”
First Line: The gray nets of the fisher boat.
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February 15, 1947 |
A7.22 | “Mute”
First Line: The kind of gashed healed with iodine.
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July 1, 1947 |
A7.23 | “Incident: 1950”
First Line: The ticket men wait by the ramp.
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July 1, 1947 |
A7.24 | “untitled”
First Line: There in the deep room.
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March 20, 1947 |
A7.25 | “untitled”
First Line: The way home.
|
October 7, 1947 |
A7.26 | “At 4:30”
First Line: This life cloth in daylight, pulled and shrunk.
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July 1, 1947 |
A7.27 | “Little Song of Heredity”
First Line: The wheat’ll vittle you all.
|
August 1, 1947 |
A7.28 | “Rebel Telling You”
First Line: We must cannot tell.
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December 17, 1947 |
A7.29 | “untitled”
First Line: Your tears fell on my eyes.
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May 20, 1947 |
A8: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems, 1948Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A8
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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A8.1 | untitled
First Line: Nothing, nothing, somewhere I’ll achieve to nothing.
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January 10, 1949 |
A8.2 | “Reverie”
First Line: Thought out over the desert.
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January 4, 1949 |
A8.3 | untitled
First Line: I have a horse.
|
September 11, 1948 |
A8.4 | “Tolstoy’s “Hadji Murad”
First Line: Broken but not harvested.
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August 9, 1948 |
A8.5 | “Passport”
First Line: Down the long grade into Denver.
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January 1, 1948 |
A8.6 | “What Kind of Shoes”
First Line: I have wondered with what kind of shoes.
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April 5, 1948 |
A8.7 | “What Kind of Shoes (contd)”
First Line: As it was, we all shuddered through.
|
April 1, 1948 |
A8.8 | “Someone”
First Line: Listen, captain, tighten your puttees;.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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August 10, 1948 |
A8.9 | “Lame Dog”
First Line: Old dog was here for someone.
|
July 17, 1948 |
A8.10 | “Aim”
First Line: Short boys who do tall things.
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February 15, 1948 |
A8.11 | “Landslide”
First Line: That ragged path, now studied with bloom.
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March 17, 1948 |
A8.12 | “Sand Blaster”
First Line: The sand blaster come polishing along.
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June 21, 1948 |
A8.13 | “Constant Storm”
First Line: The wind like tearing silk all night.
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January 24, 1948 |
A8.14 | untitled
First Line: When the tiger doesn’t move.
|
June 24, 1948 |
A8.15 | “Brim Wide”
First Line: When tides of green lay deep.
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April 11, 1948 |
A8.16 | untitled
First Line: Who grab cold and spite.
|
January 9, 1948 |
A9: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems, 1949Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A9
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A9.1 | "Looking West"
First Line: When I burned the papers a wind from the dark.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
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December 27, 1949 |
A10: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems, 1950Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A10
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A10.1 | "In the Hard Light"
First Line: On the beach at Nescowin we heard the sand.
Accepted by: Western Review.
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November 13, 1950 |
A10.2 | "In the White World"
First Line: In the white morning before day.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
September 28, 1950 |
A10.3 | "On Guard"
First Line: I know how timid the August river pauses.
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
August 31, 1950 |
A10.4 | "It’s All Right"
First Line: It cannot make any difference to you.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
March 20, 1950 |
A10.5 | "To Be Continued"
First Line: In this the year of the bomb.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
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January 30, 1950 |
A11: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems, 1940-1945Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 3/Folder A11
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
A11.1 | “Prisoner”
First Line: Touched the walls on every side again -.
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May 8, 1942 |
A11.2 | “Prison Camp”
First Line: I heard the homeless laugh.
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June 1, 1943 |
A11.3 | “Stranger 2" [in Town]
First Line: I looked for the town.
|
June 8, 1942 |
A11.4 | “Home Town”
First Line: Peace on my little town, a speck in the safe....
Accepted by: Feoh, University of Kansas.
|
October 3, 1941 |
A11.5 | “Vine”
First Line: Slash thought and a thunder of miles distant.
Accepted by: Feoh, University of Kansas.
|
May 10, 1942 |
A11.6 | untitled
First Line: A man should always have a friend, a wall.
|
May 5, 1942 |
A11.7 | “Event”
First Line: At evening on Feb. 26, the long flat sunlight.
Accepted by: Feoh, University of Kansas.
|
March 3, 1942 |
A11.8 | “Observation”
First Line: Bending over, watching them quietly.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly Review; New
Signatures.
|
December 1, 1941 |
A11.9 | “Experiment - Friend Sky”
First Line: Blue, blue forever ever and ever falling.
|
April 1, 1942 |
A11.10 | “Refugee”
First Line: Crept through a forest and stopped where a limb.
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August 1, 1940 |
A11.11 | “Breath”
First Line: Far up the canyon where the salmon leap.
|
November 1, 1942 |
A11.12 | “Tall Animals”
First Line: For pigs the click of the pail is enough.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
January 28, 1945 |
A11.13 | “Flickerings”
First Line: I’m glad the heart sleeps..
Accepted by: Soutwest Review.
|
March 15, 1945 |
A11.14 | “At Roll Call”
First Line: One day I stood, small shoes upon the sand.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
March 1, 1942 |
A11.15 | untitled
First Line: Only the children play in the snow.
|
October 7, 1941 |
A11.16 | “Home" [Possession]
First Line: Our father owned a star.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
June 21, 1944 |
A11.17 | “Night on a Hill”
First Line: Rain censors distant things; haze dims far hills.
|
June 9, 1942 |
A11.18 | “To the Busy Editor”
First Line: Some lines go trotting far across the page....
|
October 9, 1941 |
A11.19 | “Pin Boy”
First Line: I am pinboy at their bowling alley.
|
undated |
A11.19 | “Posy" [Hi, Neighbor!]
First Line: Some people keep a large and savage messiah.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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September 20, 1944 |
A11.19 | “In Our Time" / "We Give Their
Lives”
First Line: The wrath of God is offered at a fire sale.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
September 20, 1944 |
A11.20 | “Baby at Our House”
First Line: Snowflake in the life of the world.
Accepted by: Gospel Messenger.
|
May 31, 1943 |
A11.21 | “[Landscape for Postcards]”
First Line: Stern duty is a bitter thought.
|
December 15, 1944 |
A11.22 | “War Season”
First Line: The birds that winter blew past our yard.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
April 18, 1945 |
A11.23 | “Exile (2)”
First Line: The burning city of my sorrow hurts.
|
May 4, 1942 |
A11.24 | “Mr. Conscience”
First Line: The meditative crane.
Accepted by: Grundtvig Review and Poetry.
|
June 6, 1945 |
A11.25 | “Discovery”
First Line: This land, the coast I found, the low dark line.
|
August 17, 1942 |
A11.26 | “Buzzards Over Arkansas”
First Line: Three somber wheeling buzzards tatalize a vortex.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly Review.
|
March 1, 1942 |
A11.27 | untitled
First Line: Twelve slow wild geese beat by.
|
October 11, 1941 |
A11.28 | “We Call It the Chaparral”
First Line: We called it the chaparral.
|
March 14, 1943 |
dc1: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for West of Your City, 1950-1959Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 4/Folder dc1
Assembled in 1960.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc1.1 | untitled
table of contents.
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March 28, 1959 |
dc1.2 | “Midwest”
first section contents.
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March 1, 1959 |
dc1.3 | “West of Your City”
First Line: West of your city into the fern.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc1.4 | “One Home”
First Line: Mine was a Midwest home - you can keep your world.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
|
October 1, 1953 |
dc1.5 | “Ceremony”
First Line: On the third finger of my left hand.
Accepted by: Talisman.
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June 1, 1956 |
dc1.6 | “In the Deep Channel”
First Line: Setting a trotline after sundown.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
|
August 1, 1953 |
dc1.7 | “At the Salt Marsh”
First Line: Those teal with traveling wings.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly .
|
January 8, 1947 |
dc1.8 | “Hail Mary”
First Line: Cedars darkened their slow way.
Accepted by: Hudson Review .
|
December 1, 1954 |
dc1.9 | “Listening”
First Line: My father could hear a little animal step.
Accepted by: Talisman .
|
September 1, 1952 |
dc1.10 | “Circle of Breath”
First Line: The night my father died the moon shone on the snow.
Accepted by: Atlantic .
|
December 1, 1953 |
dc1.11 | “Visit Home”
First Line: In my sixties I will buy a hat.
Accepted by: New Republic .
|
October 1, 1955 |
dc1.12 | “Farm on the Great Plains”
First Line: A telephone line goes cold.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 1, 1956 |
dc1.13 | “Far West”
second section contents
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March 1, 1959 |
dc1.14 | “Walking West”
First Line: Anyone with quiet pace who.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1953 |
dc1.15 | “Our People”
First Line: Under the killdeer cry.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
January 1, 1953 |
dc1.16 | “Survey”
First Line: Down in the Frantic Mountains.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 10, 1951 |
dc1.17 | “In the Oregon Country”
First Line: From Old Fort Walla Walla and the Klickitats.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1951 |
dc1.18 | “Gun of Billy the Kid”
First Line: When they factoried Billy the Kid’s Gun.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1953 |
dc1.19 | “Willa Cather”
First Line: Far as the night goes, brittle as the stars.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
July 1, 1953 |
dc1.20 | “By the Snake River”
First Line: Something sent me out in these desert places.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
May 1, 1956 |
dc1.21 | “Small Item”
First Line: A tumbleweed that was trying.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
December 6, 1948 |
dc1.22 | “At the Bomb Testing Site”
First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
December 1, 1953 |
dc1.23 | “Lore”
First Line: Dogs that eat fish edging tidewater die.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
December 1, 1954 |
dc1.24 | “Weather Report”
First Line: Light wind at Grand Prairie, drifting snow.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1954 |
dc1.25 | “Vacation”
First Line: One scene as I bow to pour her coffee.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 31, 1950 |
dc1.26 | “Fish Counter at Bonneville”
First Line: Downstream they have killed the river and built a dam.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 7, 1951 |
dc1.27 | “Sauvies Island”
First Line: Some years ago I first hunted on Sauvies Island.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
February 1, 1956 |
dc1.28 | “Watching the Jet Planes Dive”
First Line: We must go back and find a trail on the ground.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1953 |
dc1.29 | “Summons in Indiana: Move to CA
1”
First Line: In the crept hours on our street.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1956 |
dc1.30 | “Lost Chance (first version of Move to CA
1)”
First Line: In the crept hours on our street.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1956 |
dc1.31 | “Glimpsed on the Way: Move to CA
2”
First Line: Think of the miles we left.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1956 |
dc1.32 | “Summit: Move to CA 3”
First Line: Past the middle of the continent.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 8, 1952 |
dc1.33 | “Springs Near Hagerman: Move to CA
4”
First Line: Water leaps from lava near Hagerman.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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January 1, 1951 |
dc1.34 | “Highway 40: Move to CA 5”
First Line: Those who wear green glasses through Nevada.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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August 1, 1956 |
dc1.35 | “Written on the Stub of the First
Paycheck: Move to CA 6”
First Line: Gasoline makes game scarce.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1956 |
dc1.36 | “Outside”
third section contents.
|
March 1, 1959 |
dc1.37 | “Bi-Focal”
First Line: Sometimes up out of this land.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 2, 1950 |
dc1.38 | “Outside”
First Line: The least little sound sets the coyotes walking.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
February 1, 1953 |
dc1.39 | “Boom Town”
First Line: Into any sound important.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 3, 1951 |
dc1.40 | “Level Light”
First Line: Sometimes the light when evening fails.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
March 20, 1955 |
dc1.41 | “Two Evenings”
First Line: Back of the stride of the power line.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
June 1, 1953 |
dc1.42 | “Ice-Fishing”
First Line: Not thinking other than how the hand works.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1955 |
dc1.43 | “Well Rising”
First Line: The well rising without sound.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
April 1, 1953 |
dc1.44 | “Ritual to Read to Each Other”
First Line: If you don’t know the kind of person I am.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
July 1, 1953 |
dc1.45 | “Connections”
First Line: Ours is a low, curst, under-swamp land.
Accepted by: Talisman.
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September 23, 1953 |
dc1.46 | “Acquaintance”
First Line: Because our world hardened.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 5, 1952 |
dc1.47 | “On the Glass Ice”
First Line: It was time. Arriving at Long Lake the storm.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
January 1, 1956 |
dc1.48 | “Sayings from the Northern
Ice”
First Line: It is people at the edge who say.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
October 1, 1955 |
dc1.49 | “It Is the Time You Think”
First Line: Deaf to process, alive only to ends.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1955 |
dc1.50 | “Sunset: Southwest”
First Line: In front of the courthouse holding the adaptable flag.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
December 1, 1954 |
dc1.51 | “Following”
First Line: There dwelt in a cave, and winding I thought lower.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
March 1, 1953 |
dc1.52 | “Postscript”
First Line: You reading this page, this trial.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
February 21, 1951 |
dc2: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for Traveling through the Dark, 1950-1962Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 4/Folder dc2
Assembled in 1962.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc2.1 | untitled
contents page 1.
|
February 1, 1962 |
dc2.2 | untitled
contents page 2.
|
February 1, 1962 |
dc2.3 | “In Medias Res”
subtitle, pt.1.
|
1962 |
dc2.4 | “Traveling through the Dark”
First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc2.5 | “In Medias Res”
First Line: On Main one night when they sounded the chimes.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1959 |
dc2.6 | “Elegy”
First Line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
June 3, 1952 |
dc2.7 | “Stared Story”
First Line: Over the hill came horsemen, horsemen.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
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November 17, 1953 |
dc2.8 | “Thinking for Berky”
First Line: In the late night listening fom bed.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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January 1, 1955 |
dc2.9 | “With My Crowbar Key”
First Line: I do tricks in order to know.
Accepted by: Botteghe Oscure.
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April 1, 1956 |
dc2.10 | “Thought Machine”
First Line: Its little eye stares “On” in its forehead.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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March 1, 1960 |
dc2.11 | “Mouse Night: One of Our
Games”
First Line: We heard thunder. Nothing great - on high.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
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August 1, 1957 |
dc2.12 | “Parentage”
First Line: My father didn’t really belong in history.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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March 1, 1955 |
dc2.13 | “Research Team in the
Mountains”
First Line: Answers are just echoes, they say. But.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
October 1, 1957 |
dc2.14 | “Holding the Sky”
First Line: We saw a town by the track in Colorado.
Accepted by: Schooner.
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January 1, 1951 |
dc2.15 | “Job”
First Line: It starts before light.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1959 |
dc2.16 | “Prairie Town”
First Line: There was a river under First and Main.
Accepted by: Fiddlehead.
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March 1, 1956 |
dc2.17 | “Tornado”
First Line: First the soul of our house left, up the chimney.
Accepted by: Poetry Book Society Supplement.
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June 1, 1960 |
dc2.18 | “Conservative”
First Line: Indiana felt the ice.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
May 1, 1957 |
dc2.19 | “Woman at Banff”
First Line: While she was talking a bear happened along, violating.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
July 1, 1960 |
dc2.20 | “Tillamook Burn”
First Line: These mountains have heard God.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1955 |
dc2.21 | “Old Hamer Place”
First Line: The wind came every night like an animal.
Accepted by: Contact.
|
December 1, 1959 |
dc2.22 | “On Quitting a Little College”
First Line: By footworn boards, by steps.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
March 1, 1956 |
dc2.23 | “Reporting Back”
First Line: By the secret that holds the forest up.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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February 1, 1958 |
dc2.24 | “Poets’ Annual Indigence
Report”
First Line: Tonight beyond the determined moon.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
March 1, 1958 |
dc2.25 | “In Response to a Question”
First Line: The earth says have a place; be what that place requires.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 1, 1960 |
dc2.26 | “With One Launched Look”
First Line: The cheetah levels at one far deer.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc2.27 | “B.C.”
First Line: The seed that met water spoke a little name.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
June 1, 1955 |
dc2.28 | “Captive”
First Line: Calmly through the bars observe.
Accepted by: December.
|
November 1, 1958 |
dc2.29 | “View from Here”
First Line: In Antarctica drooping their little shoulders.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
December 13, 1955 |
dc2.30 | “Lit Instructor”
First Line: Day after day up here beating my wings.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
November 15, 1952 |
dc2.31 | “Star in the Hills”
First Line: A star hit in the hills behind our house.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
October 1, 1956 |
dc2.32 | “I Was in the City All Day”
First Line: Into the desert, trading people for horses.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1958 |
dc2.33 | “Poet to a Novelist”
First Line: When we write, fighting feedback, eedback, dback.
Accepted by: Listen.
|
March 1, 1957 |
dc2.34 | “Universe Is One Place”
First Line: Crisis they call it? - when.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1959 |
dc2.35 | “In the Night Desert”
First Line: The Apache word for love twists.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1961 |
dc2.36 | “Before the Big Storm”
subtitle, pt.2.
|
1962 |
dc2.37 | “Before the Big Storm”
First Line: You are famous in my mind.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
January 3, 1945 |
dc2.38 | “Things We Did That Meant
Something”
First Line: This as memory to a bloodhound’s nose.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1957 |
dc2.39 | “At Liberty School”
First Line: Girl in the front row who had no mother.
Accepted by: Schooner.
|
September 9, 1953 |
dc2.40 | “Lake Chelan”
First Line: They call it regional, this relevence.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1960 |
dc2.41 | “Museum at Tillamook”
First Line: Stll faces on the wall: that look.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 1, 1960 |
dc2.42 | “Late at Night”
First Line: Falling separate into the dark.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
October 14, 1950 |
dc2.43 | “Summer Will Rise”
First Line: Summer Will Rise till the houses fear.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
February 1, 1956 |
dc2.44 | “Fall Journey”
First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.
Accepted by: Schooner.
|
August 1, 1954 |
dc2.45 | “Dedication”
First Line: We stood by the library. It was an August night.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
December 1, 1953 |
dc2.46 | “Chickens the Weasel Killed”
First Line: A passerby being fair about sacrifice.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1957 |
dc2.47 | “Requiem”
First Line: Mother is gone. Bird songs wouldn’t let her breathe.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
June 1, 1954 |
dc2.48 | “Last Friend ”
First Line: In every life poor body earns its own evil.
Accepted by: Listen (Marvell Press, Yorkshire).
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February 13, 1951 |
dc2.49 | “Lyf So Short”
First Line: We have lived in that room larger than the world.
Accepted by: New Republic.
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January 1, 1954 |
dc2.50 | “Only Card I Got on my Birthday Was from
an Insurance Man”
First Line: On upland farms into abandoned wells.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
January 1, 1961 |
dc2.51 | “At the Old Place”
First Line: The beak of dawn’s rooster pecked.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1956 |
dc2.52 | “Love the Butcher Bird Lurks
Everywhere”
First Line: A gather of apricots fruit pickers left.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
August 1, 1957 |
dc2.53 | “Learning”
First Line: A needle knows everything lengthwise.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
October 16, 1950 |
dc2.54 | “Adults Only”
First Line: Animals own a fur world.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
September 1, 1959 |
dc2.55 | “Wisteria Jones”
First Line: She used to write, ribboning our talk away.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
April 1, 1960 |
dc2.56 | “In the Museum”
First Line: Like that, I put the next thing in your hand.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
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October 1, 1954 |
dc2.57 | “Time’s Exile”
First Line: From all encounters vintages ensue.
Accepted by: Inland.
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December 1, 1955 |
dc2.58 | “Birthday”
First Line: We have a dog named “Here”.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
November 1, 1959 |
dc2.59 | “Glances”
First Line: Two people meet. The sky turns winter.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
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January 1, 1953 |
dc2.60 | “Fall Wind”
First Line: Pods of summer crowd around the door.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
May 1, 1956 |
dc2.61 | “As Pippa Lilted”
First Line: Good things will happen.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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March 1, 1957 |
dc2.62 | “Trip”
First Line: Our car was fierce enough.
Accepted by: Pioneer Log.
|
November 1, 1959 |
dc2.63 | “Representing Far Places”
subtitle, pt.3.
|
1962 |
dc2.64 | “Representing Far Places”
First Line: In the canoe wilderness branches wait for winter.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc2.65 | “From the Gradual Grass”
First Line: Imagine a voice calling.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1958 |
dc2.66 | “Long Distance”
First Line: Sometimes you watch the fire.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
|
dc2.67 | “Peters Family”
First Line: At the end of their ragged field.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1959 |
dc2.68 | “In Fear and Valor”
First Line: My mother was afraid.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
December 1, 1958 |
dc2.69 | “Title Comes Later”
First Line: In my sleep a little man cries, “Faker! Faker!”.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
September 1, 1959 |
dc2.70 | “At Cove on the Crooked River”
First Line: At Cove at our camp on the Crooked River.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
August 1, 1959 |
dc2.71 | “Last Vacation”
First Line: Mountains crowded around on the north.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
August 31, 1951 |
dc2.72 | “Looking for Someone”
First Line: Many a time driving over the Coast Range.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1958 |
dc2.73 | “What God Used for Eyes Before We
Came”
First Line: At night sometimes the big fog roams in tall.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
February 1, 1958 |
dc2.74 | “Returned to Say”
First Line: When I face north a lost Cree.
Accepted by: .
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June 1, 1956 |
dc2.75 | “Found in a Storm”
First Line: A storm that needed a mountain.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1960 |
dc2.76 | “Late Thinker”
First Line: Remembering mountain farms.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1954 |
dc2.77 | “Look Returned”
First Line: At the border of October.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1958 |
dc2.78 | “Interlude”
First Line: Think of a river beyond your thought.
Accepted by: Yale Rreview.
|
July 1, 1960 |
dc2.79 | “In Dear Detail, By Ideal
Light”
First Line: Night huddled our towm.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1958 |
dc2.80 | “Wanderer Awaiting Preferment”
First Line: In a world where no one knows for sure.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
February 1, 1959 |
dc2.81 | “Vocation”
First Line: This dream the world is having about itself.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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April 1, 1961 |
dc2.82 | Traveling through the Dark publication
materials, 1
Approved nov 17.
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1960 |
dc2.83 | Traveling through the Dark publication
materials, 2
A collection of poems - to Eliz. Lawrence.
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December 27, 1960 |
dc2.84 | How to Cross This Valley: Traveling
through the Dark publication materials, 3
earlier subtitle, pt.3.
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April 12, 1959 |
dc2.85 | Representing Far Places: Traveling through
the Dark publication materials 4
A collection (2 pp.) sent to David Wagoner.
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October 25, 1960 |
dc2.86 | Traveling through the Dark publication
materials 5
extra poems offered....
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February 22, 1962 |
dc2.87 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 6
Approach.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.88 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 7
Beloit Poetry Journal.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.89 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 8
Botteghe Oscure.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.90 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 9
Colorado Quarterly.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.91 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 10
Contact.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.92 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 11
Commonweal and Compass.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.93 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 12
December.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.94 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 13
Fiddlehead.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.95 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 14
Harpers.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.96 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 15
Hudson Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.97 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 16
Inland.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.98 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 17
Kenyon Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.99 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 18
Listen.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.100 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 19
The Nation.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.101 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 20
New Mexico Quarterly.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.102 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 21
New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.103 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 22
New Republic.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.104 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 23
New Yorker.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.105 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 24
Northwest Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.106 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 25
State of Oregon.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.107 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 26
Paris Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.108 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 27
Pioneer Log.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.109 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 28
Poetry.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.110 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 29
Poetry Book Society.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.111 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 30
Poetry Northwest.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.112 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 31
Prairie Schooner.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.113 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 32
Saturday Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.114 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 33
Sounthwest Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.115 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 34
Talisman.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.116 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 35
University of Portland Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.117 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 36
Western Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc2.118 | copyright list: Traveling through the Dark
publication materials 37
Yale Review.
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1960-1962 |
dc3: Typed Documentary Copies of Poems and Put-together for The Rescued Year, 1949-1965Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 4/Folder dc3
Assembled in 1966.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc3.1 | copyright notes: Rescued Year
1
Poetry....
|
undated |
dc3.2 | copyright page
Poems scheduled for The Rescued Year.
|
undated |
dc3.3 | copyright page draft
Poems scheduled for use in Rescued Year....
|
undated |
dc3.4 | “Part 1 (Domestic and
Nostalgic)”
section contents.
|
June 28, 1965 |
dc3.5 | “Tulip Tree”
First Line: Many a winter night.
Accepted by: New York Times.
|
August 1, 1961 |
dc3.6 | “Some Shadows”
First Line: Neither do I love a gloomy virtue.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
May 28, 1951 |
dc3.7 | “Across Kansas”
First Line: My family slept those level miles.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1961 |
dc3.8 | “My Father: October 1942”
First Line: He picks up what he thinks is.
Accepted by: Focus Midwest.
|
January 1, 1963 |
dc3.9 | “Back Home”
First Line: The girl who used to sing in the choir.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1957 |
dc3.10 | “Family Turn”
First Line: All her kamikaze friends admired my aunt.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1964 |
dc3.11 | “Fifteen”
First Line: South of the bridge on Seventeenth.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
July 1, 1963 |
dc3.12 | “Rescued Year”
First Line: Take a model of the world so big.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1961 |
dc3.13 | “Homecoming”
First Line: Under my hat I custom you intricate, Ella.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
November 12, 1950 |
dc3.14 | “Judgments”
First Line: I accuse.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
March 1, 1963 |
dc3.15 | “Uncle George”
First Line: Some catastrophes are better than others.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
April 1, 1964 |
dc3.16 | “Aunt Mabel”
First Line: This town is haunted by some good deed.
Accepted by: Granta.
|
November 1, 1962 |
dc3.17 | “One Home”
First Line: Mine was a Midwest home - you can keep your world.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.18 | “Strokes”
First Line: The left side of her world is gone.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
September 1, 1955 |
dc3.19 | “Our City Is Guarded by Automatic
Rockets”
First Line: Breaking every law except the one.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 12, 1957 |
dc3.20 | “Believer”
First Line: A horse could gallop over our bridge that minnows.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1963 |
dc3.21 | “Letter from Oregon”
First Line: Mother, here there are shadowy salmon.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 3, 1949 |
dc3.22 | “Vacation”
First Line: One scene as I bow to pour here coffee.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.23 | “Farewell in Tumbleweed Time”
First Line: One after another, fish fast over the fence.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
January 1, 1963 |
dc3.24 | “Farm on the Great Plains”
First Line: A telephone line goes cold.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
undated |
dc3.25 | “Listening”
First Line: My father could hear a little animal step.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
undated |
dc3.26 | “Part 2 (Landscape and
Americana)”
section contents.
|
undated |
dc3.27 | “Well Rising”
First Line: The well rising without sound.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
undated |
dc3.28 | “At the Bomb Testing Site”
First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
undated |
dc3.29 | “At the Chairman’s
Housewarming”
First Line: Talk like a jellyfish can ruin a party.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
undated |
dc3.30 | “When I Was Young”
First Line: That good river that flowed backward.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
July 1, 1963 |
dc3.31 | “Doubt on the Great Divide”
First Line: One of the lies the world is compelled to tell.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
March 29, 1954 |
dc3.32 | “Winterward”
First Line: Early in March we pitched our scar.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
July 1, 1953 |
dc3.33 | “Epitaph Ending in And”
First Line: In the last storm, when hawks.
Accepted by: goodly co..
|
October 1, 1964 |
dc3.34 | “Keepsakes”
First Line: Star Guides.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
September 1, 1960 |
dc3.35 | “Documentary from America”
First Line: When the Presidential candidate came to our town.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1960 |
dc3.36 | “Out West”
First Line: This air the mountains watch, in Oregon, holds.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
December 1, 1962 |
dc3.37 | “At This Point on the Page”
First Line: Frightened at the slant of the writing, I looked up.
Accepted by: Frontier.
|
December 1, 1958 |
dc3.38 | “In the Deep Channel”
First Line: Setting a trotline after sundown.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.39 | “Connections”
First Line: Ours is a low, curst, under-swamp land.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
undated |
dc3.40 | “At the Fair”
First Line: Even the flaws were good.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
August 31, 1950 |
dc3.41 | “Passing Remark”
First Line: In scenery I like flat country.
Accepted by: Mt Shasta.
|
November 12, 1951 |
dc3.42 | “Fish Counter at Bonneville”
First Line: Downstream they have killed the river and built a dam.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.43 | “Walking West”
First Line: Anyone with quiet pace who.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.44 | “At the Klamath Berry
Festival”
First Line: The war chief danced the old way.
Accepted by: Mt Shasta.
|
March 1, 1957 |
dc3.45 | “Near Edinburgh Castle”
First Line: Wind riffles a telephone book.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
August 31, 1962 |
dc3.46 | “Our People”
First Line: Under the killdeer cry.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
undated |
dc3.47 | “Part 3 (Following the Markings of Dag
Hammarskjold)”
section contents.
|
undated |
dc3.48 | “Prologue (Dag Hammarskjold
1)”
First Line: You have to take the road seriously.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1965 |
dc3.49 | “Song Demonstrators in Mexico Sing in
Troubled Parts of a City (Dag Hammarskjold 2)”
First Line: Dear ones, watching us on any street.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 20, 1964 |
dc3.50 | “Thanksgiving for My Father (Dag
Hammarskjold 3) - 2 versions”
First Line: The freezing convict wanted.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 26, 1964 |
dc3.51 | “Jack London (Dag Hammarskjold
4)”
First Line: Teeth meet on a jugular, pause, and bite.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 1, 1964 |
dc3.52 | “Concealment: Ishi the Last Wild Indian
(Dag Hammarskjold 5)”
First Line: A rock, a leaf, mud, even the grass.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1964 |
dc3.53 | “Glimpses in the Woods (Dag Hammarskjold
6)”
First Line: That yew tree in the woods, that hermit.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1964 |
dc3.54 | “Walking the Wilderness (Dag Hammarskjold
7)”
First Line: God is never sure He has found.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1964 |
dc3.55 | “Part 4 (Inward and Fantastic
Poems)”
section contents.
|
undated |
dc3.56 | “Right Now”
First Line: Tonight in our secret town.
Accepted by: Focus/Midwest.
|
February 1, 1962 |
dc3.57 | “From Eastern Oregon”
First Line: Your day self shimmers at the mouth of a desert cave.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
July 1, 1963 |
dc3.58 | “Once Men Were Created”
First Line: A whistle had already loomed, outside.
Accepted by: Carleton Miscellany.
|
March 1, 1963 |
dc3.59 | “Ice-Fishing”
First Line: Not thinking other than how the hand works.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc3.60 | “Human Condition”
First Line: If there is a forest anywhere.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 1, 1961 |
dc3.61 | “Across the Lake’s Eye”
First Line: Walking ice across the lake’s eye.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
January 1, 1960 |
dc3.62 | “For the Grave of Daniel
Boone”
First Line: The farther he went the farther home grew.
Accepted by: Botteghe Oscure.
|
June 24, 1955 |
dc3.63 | “Hunting ”
First Line: What the keen hound followed.
Accepted by: New York Times.
|
April 1, 1962 |
dc3.64 | “Move to CA (6 poems, 2
sheets)”
First Line: In the crept hours on our street.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
undated |
dc3.65 | “Sophocles Says”
First Line: History is a story God is Telling.
Accepted by: Pioneer Log.
|
October 1, 1958 |
dc3.66 | “Near”
First Line: Walking along in this not quite prose way.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 24, 1952 |
dc3.67 | “Animal That Drank Up Sound”
First Line: One day across the lake where echoes come now.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
August 1, 1963 |
dc3.68 | “Recoil”
First Line: The bow bent remembers home long.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
August 1, 1953 |
dc3.69 | “Read to the Last Line”
First Line: Suppose a heroic deed.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
June 24, 1959 |
A13: PhD Submission, Winterward, 1950-1954Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 5/Folder A13
Assembled in 1954.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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A13.1 | Acknowledgments page. |
February 1, 1954 |
A13.2 | Contents page (1). |
undated |
A13.3 | Contents page (2). |
undated |
A13.4 | Contents page (3). |
undated |
A13.5 | “Boom Town”
First Line: Into any sound important.
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undated |
A13.6 | “Homecoming”
First Line: Under my hat I custom you intricate, Goldy.
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undated |
A13.7 | “Vine Maple”
First Line: There was a tree surprised by light.
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undated |
A13.8 | “In the Mirror”
First Line: Alone here with a stranger.
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undated |
A13.9 | “Listening”
First Line: My father could hear a little animal step.
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undated |
A13.10 | “Near”
First Line: Walking along in this not quite prose way.
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undated |
A13.11 | “Old Dance”
First Line: Anybody here know the old dance.
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undated |
A13.12 | “Recall”
First Line: Image of me, I follow, eyes closed.
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undated |
A13.13 | “Relation”
First Line: Because our church cut the wind.
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undated |
A13.14 | “Translated from Grandmother’s
Lesebuch”
First Line: On every merry-go-round there was one hideous rider.
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undated |
A13.15 | “Elegy" (3 pages)
First Line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower.
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undated |
A13.16 | “Acquaintance”
First Line: Because our world hardened.
|
undated |
A13.17 | “Lake Looks”
First Line: The eerie eyes of normal people.
|
undated |
A13.18 | “On the Moon”
First Line: It is so quiet on the moon.
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December 31, 1950 |
A13.19 | “Night Words”
First Line: My hand invented sorrow.
|
undated |
A13.20 | “Farewell to a Certain
Student”
First Line: Kathleen, you may bear burghers. Goodbye.
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July 31, 1950 |
A13.21 | “Devotion”
First Line: Along my river frogs like thought.
|
undated |
A13.22 | “Reproof”
First Line: If this is a cave - the solid world.
|
undated |
A13.23 | “Sunday Afternoon”
First Line: In relief, the way time touches a carving.
|
undated |
A13.24 | “Civics”
First Line: At every level, down to duck feet on the pavement.
|
undated |
A13.25 | “Askance”
First Line: Rats at the pilings, holding them firm.
|
undated |
A13.26 | “Raveled Man”
First Line: A man of no great mark, a snarl of string.
|
undated |
A13.27 | “Speech”
First Line: This apple compliment - let it roll a moment.
|
undated |
A13.28 | “Bulletin”
First Line: At five o’clock one morning according to the chart.
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July 31, 1950 |
A13.29 | “On the Track”
First Line: Later the moth can follow the string.
|
undated |
A13.30 | “At the Grosses’ Housewarming”
First Line: Talk like a jellyfish can ruin a party.
|
undated |
A13.31 | “That Art Broker”
First Line: Icing the four rivers around the world.
|
undated |
A13.32 | “Fieldpath”
First Line: I helped make this groove.
|
undated |
A13.33 | “Survey”
First Line: Down in the Frantic Mountains.
|
undated |
A13.34 | “In the Oregon Country”
First Line: From old Fort Walla Walla and the Klickitats.
|
undated |
A13.35 | “Direction”
First Line: At night creating mushrooms, bending fern.
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undated |
A13.36 | “Letter from Oregon”
First Line: Mother, here there are shadowy salmon.
|
undated |
A13.37 | “Inland Murmur”
First Line: In the Cimarron Hills.
|
undated |
A13.38 | “Fish-Counter at Bonneville”
First Line: Downstream they have killed the river - built a dam.
|
undated |
A13.39 | “Bi-Focal”
First Line: Sometimes up out of this land.
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undated |
A14: Unpublished put-together, Wind World, ??????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 5/Folder A14
Assembled in 1971.
A15: Unpublished put-together, It Was Like This, ??????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 5/Folder A15
Cascade Head Project. Assembled in 1975.
dc5: Unpublished put-together, Roundup, 1992Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 5/Folder dc5
Originally assembled in 1981. The 1981 put-together is housed in Box 17, Folder C7.
dc8: Poems for special Stafford issue of Small Farm, 1978-1979Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 5/Folder dc8
Assembled in 1979.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc8.1 | Submissions list
Poems to Jeff Daniel Marion.
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May 16, 1978 |
dc8.2 | Submissions list, page 1
Photographs to Jeff Daniel Marion.
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May 16, 1978 |
dc8.3 | Submissions list, page 2
Phographs to Jeff Daniel Marion p.2.
|
May 16, 1978 |
dc8.4 | Small Farm
Cover page to submissions lists.
|
May 16, 1978 |
dc8.5 | “Day at a Time" (original and
copy)”
First Line: Something comes through the brush on its hands and knees.
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December 1, 1978 |
dc8.6 | “Around Some Corner" (orignal and
copy)
First Line: Of a sudden outside the window the leaves.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc8.7 | “Faith in the Morning" (original and
copy)
First Line: Rainwater gray, a window the morning makes.
|
February 22, 1979 |
dc4: Put-together for Allegiances, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 6/Folder dc4
Assembled in 1970.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc4.1 | Allegiances
Cover note.
|
April 1, 1969 |
dc4.2 | Allegiances
title page
|
undated |
dc4.3 | Allegiances
back jacket copy
|
undated |
dc4.4 | “This Book”
First Line: Late, at the beginning of cold.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
August 1, 1965 |
dc4.5 | part 1
contents page.
|
undated |
dc4.6 | part 1
subtitle
|
undated |
dc4.7 | “With Kit, Age 7, at the
Beach”
First Line: We were going to the highes dune.
Accepted by: Sponsa Regis.
|
undated |
dc4.8 | “With My Little Girl [Kit, 7,] at the
Beach (earlier version)”
First Line: We were going to the highest dune.
Accepted by: Sponsa Regis.
|
June 1, 1959 |
dc4.9 | “Bess”
First Line: Ours are the streets where Bess first met her.
Accepted by: Carleton Miscellany.
|
August 1, 1965 |
dc4.10 | “Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth
Grade Party”
First Line: The only relics left are those long.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc4.11 | “Holcomb, Kansas [In Cold
Blood]”
First Line: The city man got dust on his shoes and carried.
Accepted by: New Amerian Review.
|
January 1, 1968 |
dc4.12 | “Gesture toward an Unfound
Renaissance”
First Line: There was the slow girl in art class.
Accepted by: Poetry Australia.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc4.13 | “Remembering Althea”
First Line: When you came out of your house.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
August 1, 1964 |
dc4.14 | “Reaching to Turn On a Light”
First Line: Every lamp that approves its foot.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 1, 1967 |
dc4.15 | “Last Day”
First Line: To Geronimo rocks were the truth.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
May 1, 1966 |
dc4.16 | “At the Grave of My Brother”
First Line: The mirror cared less and less at the last, but.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
May 1, 1965 |
dc4.17 | “Father’s Voice”
First Line: No need to get home early.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1966 |
dc4.18 | “Observation Car and Cigar”
First Line: Tranquility as his breath, his eye a camera.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
July 1, 1964 |
dc4.19 | “In Sublette’s Barn, p.1”
First Line: Sublette moved up the Cimarron alert.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1962 |
dc4.20 | “In Sublette’s barn, p.2”
First Line: That was his land, but no one there to know. By.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1962 |
dc4.21 | “Carols Back Then”
First Line: Clouds on the hills. I hear a throat voice.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
April 1, 1954 |
dc4.22 | “Some Autumn Characters”
First Line: Rain finds lost beach toys, on.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
July 1, 1964 |
dc4.23 | “Girl Engaged to the Boy Who
Died”
First Line: A part of the wind goes around her face.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 1, 1967 |
dc4.24 | “Strangers”
First Line: Brown in the snow, a car with a heater.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1965 |
dc4.25 | “Preacher at the Corner”
First Line: He talked like an old gun killing buffalo.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
January 23, 1960 |
dc4.26 | “Gift (2 versions)”
First Line: The writer’s home he salvages from little pieces.
Accepted by: Writer’s Digest.
|
January 1, 1958 |
dc4.27 | part 2
subtitle.
|
undated |
dc4.28 | part 2
contents page.
|
undated |
dc4.29 | “Return to Single-Shot”
First Line: People who come back refuse to touch.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1960 |
dc4.30 | “Remember”
First Line: The little towns day found.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1956 |
dc4.31 | “Behind the Falls”
First Line: First the falls, then the cave.
Accepted by: Little Review.
|
September 1, 1961 |
dc4.32 | “Behind the Falls (earlier
version)”
First Line: In the cave behind the falls.
Accepted by: Little Review.
|
September 1, 1961 |
dc4.33 | “Montana Eclogue”
First Line: After the fall drive, the last.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
September 1, 1965 |
dc4.34 | “Story”
First Line: After they passed I climbed.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
October 1, 1965 |
dc4.35 | “Memorial Day”
First Line: Said a blind fish loved that lake.
Accepted by: Poetry Bag.
|
June 1, 1966 |
dc4.36 | “Quiet Town”
First Line: Here in our cloud we talk.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
January 1, 1965 |
dc4.37 | “Letter”
First Line: Dear Governor.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
August 1, 1966 |
dc4.38 | “Flowers at an Airport”
First Line: Part of the time sun, part of.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
May 1, 1968 |
dc4.39 | “Texas”
First Line: Wide, no limit, the whole.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1966 |
dc4.40 | “Sound from the Earth”
First Line: Somewhere, I think in Dakota.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
April 1, 1967 |
dc4.41 | “Garden City”
First Line: That town, those days, composed grand.
Accepted by: North American Review.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc4.42 | “Pioneer Cemetery [Memorials of a Tour
Around Mt Hood 1]”
First Line: Both sides fought stillness.
Accepted by: OR Centennial.
|
April 4, 1959 |
dc4.43 | “Cage at the Filling Station [Memorials of
a Tour Around Mt Hood 2]”
First Line: In the turn of neck a wolverine offered.
Accepted by: OR Centennial.
|
March 1, 1959 |
dc4.44 | “Camping at Lost Lake [Memorialsd of a
Tour Around Mt Hood 3]”
First Line: Earth at large in constellations.
Accepted by: OR Centennial.
|
January 1, 1955 |
dc4.45 | “And That Picnic at Zigzag [Memorials of a
Tour Around Mt Hood 4]”
First Line: Tea at a campfire.
Accepted by: OR Centennial.
|
January 1, 1959 |
dc4.46 | “Stories from Kansas”
First Line: Little bunches of.
Accepted by: Cloud Marauder.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc4.47 | part 3
subtitle.
|
undated |
dc4.48 | part 3
contents page.
|
undated |
dc4.49 | “Things That Happen”
First Line: Sometimes before great events a person will try.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1966 |
dc4.50 | “What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of
Liberal, Kansas”
First Line: Air waits for us.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
October 1, 1966 |
dc4.51 | “On Don Quixote’s Horse”
First Line: Loose reins, the pony finds.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1964 |
dc4.52 | “Christianite”
First Line: This new kind of metal will not suffer.
Accepted by: Dist. Voice.
|
June 1, 1964 |
dc4.53 | “Vacation Trip”
First Line: The loudest sound in our car.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
December 1, 1965 |
dc4.54 | “Like a Little Stone”
First Line: Like a little stone, feel the shadow of the great earth.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
November 1, 1953 |
dc4.55 | “Note”
First Line: Straw, feathers, dust.
Accepted by: Aperture.
|
August 16, 1949 |
dc4.56 | “Space Country”
First Line: As usual the highest birds first.
Accepted by: Colorado State Review.
|
October 1, 1966 |
dc4.57 | “Climb”
First Line: One campfire higher every year.
Accepted by: Little Review.
|
January 1, 1959 |
dc4.58 | “Climb (earlier version)”
First Line: One campfire higher every year.
Accepted by: Little Review.
|
January 1, 1959 |
dc4.59 | “Epiphany”
First Line: You thinkers, prisoners of what will work.
Accepted by: Little Review.
|
August 1, 1961 |
dc4.60 | “Brevities”
First Line: Epitaph.
Accepted by: Carleton Miscellany.
|
August 1, 1963 |
dc4.61 | “Humanities Lecture”
First Line: Aristotle was a little man with.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1964 |
dc4.62 | “In Fur”
First Line: They hurt no one. They rove the North.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1965 |
dc4.63 | “Evening News”
First Line: That one great window puts forth.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
May 1, 1966 |
dc4.64 | “Religion Back Home”
First Line: When God’s parachute failed.
Accepted by: Book Week.
|
September 1, 1966 |
dc4.65 | “How I Escaped”
First Line: A sign said “How to be Wild.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1963 |
dc4.66 | part 4
subtitle.
|
undated |
dc4.67 | part 4
contents page
|
undated |
dc4.68 | “Mornings, p. 1”
First Line: Quiet.
Accepted by: Dist. Voice.
|
April 1, 1964 |
dc4.69 | “Mornings, p. 2”
First Line: Light.
Accepted by: Dist. Voice.
|
April 1, 1964 |
dc4.70 | “Spectator”
First Line: Treat the world as if it really existed.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
September 4, 1953 |
dc4.71 | “Any Time”
First Line: Vacation? Our children took our love apart.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
August 1, 1965 |
dc4.72 | “Folk Song”
First Line: First no sound, then you hear it.
Accepted by: Poetry Bag.
|
August 1, 1966 |
dc4.73 | “Believing What I Know”
First Line: A lake on the map of Canada.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
May 1, 1958 |
dc4.74 | “Where We Are”
First Line: Much travel moves mountains large.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
September 1, 1964 |
dc4.75 | “In the Old Days”
First Line: The wide field that was the rest of the world.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1965 |
dc4.76 | “Tragic Song”
First Line: All still when summer is over.
Accepted by: Denver Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1965 |
dc4.77 | “At Our House”
First Line: Home late, one lamp turned low.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
April 1, 1965 |
dc4.78 | “Deerslayer’s Campfire Talk”
First Line: At thousands of places on any.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
April 1, 1966 |
dc4.79 | “In Fog”
First Line: In fog a tree steps back.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc4.80 | “Time”
First Line: The years to come (empty boxcars.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1963 |
dc4.81 | “Allegiances”
First Line: It is time for all the heroes to go home.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
January 1, 1966 |
dc4.82 | “These Days”
First Line: Hurt people crawl as if they.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1966 |
dc4.83 | “Earth Dweller”
First Line: It was all the clods at once become.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
May 1, 1967 |
dc4.84 | “Walk in the Country”
First Line: To walk anywhere in the world, to live.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
February 1, 1968 |
dc4.85 | “To Walk Anywhere in the World (earlier
version of Walk in the Country)”
First Line: To walk anywhere in the world.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
February 1, 1968 |
dc4.86 | “To Walk Anywhere in the World (earlier
version of Walk in the Country)”
First Line: To walk anywhere in the world.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
February 1, 1968 |
dc4.87 | “So Long”
First Line: At least at night, a streetlight.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
October 1, 1966 |
dc6: Put-together for Someday, Maybe, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 6/Folder dc6
Assembled in 1973.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc6.1 | Acknowledgment & Index page
1 |
undated |
dc6.2 | Acknowledgment & Index page
2 |
undated |
dc6.3 | Acknowledgment & Index page
3 |
undated |
dc6.4 | Title page, etc. |
May 30, 1972 |
dc6.5 | “Motorcycle, Count My Sins”
subtitle, part 1.
|
undated |
dc6.6 | “Introduction to Some Poems”
First Line: Look: no one ever promised for sure.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1967 |
dc6.7 | “Thirteenth and Pennsylvania”
First Line: Motorcycle, count my sins.
|
October 1, 1970 |
dc6.8 | “Glimpse Between Buildings”
First Line: Now that the moon is out of a job.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc6.9 | “For a Child Gone to Live in a
Commune”
First Line: Outside our ways you found.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
November 1, 1971 |
dc6.10 | “Old Dog”
First Line: Toward the last in the morning she could not.
Accepted by: Dogs.
|
January 1, 1970 |
dc6.11 | “New Letters from Thomas Jefferson (3
pages)”
First Line: Dear Sir.
Accepted by: Esquire.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc6.12 | “Hero”
First Line: What if he came back, astounded.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
January 1, 1971 |
dc6.13 | “Lecture on the Elegy”
First Line: An elegy is really about the wilting of a flower.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
November 1, 1971 |
dc6.14 | “That Time of Year”
First Line: Remember T.J.?.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
September 24, 1969 |
dc6.15 | “Girl Daddy Used to Know”
First Line: Winter adopted her.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
September 1, 1969 |
dc6.16 | “World Staccato”
First Line: Things that say clear, linger.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc6.17 | “Living”
First Line: Even pain you can take, in waves.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
January 1, 1972 |
dc6.18 | “Trying to Remember a Town”
First Line: After our trip one town was lost.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
August 1, 1969 |
dc6.19 | “Waking at 3 a.m.”
First Line: Even in the cave of the night when you.
Accepted by: Slow Loris.
|
December 1, 1969 |
dc6.20 | “Love in the Country”
First Line: We live like this: no one but.
Accepted by: Blackbird Circle.
|
February 1, 1970 |
dc6.21 | “Escape”
First Line: Now as we cross this white page together.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc6.22 | “Some Days of Its Gift”
First Line: It is a little day: no flags.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
February 1, 1971 |
dc6.23 | “Losing a Friend”
First Line: Open the rain and go in.
Accepted by: Chelsea.
|
June 1, 1971 |
dc6.24 | “In the Desert”
First Line: What is that stiff figure.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc6.25 | “Dreams to Have”
First Line: They film a woman falling from a bridge.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
April 1, 1972 |
dc6.26 | “Little Gift”
First Line: Fur came near, night inside it.
Accepted by: Activist.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc6.27 | “Three Looks Out of a Window”
First Line: Someone went by in the alley.
Accepted by: Lillabulero.
|
April 1, 1971 |
dc6.28 | “Hide and Go Seek at the
Cemetery”
First Line: Where snow can’t find them.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
March 1, 1971 |
dc6.29 | “In aTime of Need”
First Line: We put our hands on the window - cold.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1971 |
dc6.30 | “Sleeping on the Sisters Land”
First Line: Rain touches your face just a daylight.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1971 |
dc6.31 | “In the White Sky”
First Line: Many things in the world have.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1971 |
dc6.32 | “Weeds”
First Line: What’s down in the earth.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1971 |
dc6.33 | “Room 000”
First Line: After the last class in the empty room.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
December 1, 1971 |
dc6.34 | “In a Museum in the Capital”
First Line: Think of the shark’s tiny brain.
Accepted by: Reporter for Conscience’ Sake.
|
September 1, 1969 |
dc6.35 | “Speaking Frankly”
First Line: It isn’t your claim, or mine, or.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
October 1, 1970 |
dc6.36 | “Existences”
First Line: Half-wild, I hear a wolf.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
November 1, 1971 |
dc6.37 | “Friend”
First Line: For anyone, for anyone.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1971 |
dc6.38 | “Father and Son”
First Line: No sound - a spell - on, on out.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
December 1, 1970 |
dc6.39 | Wind World
subtitle, part 2.
|
undated |
dc6.40 | “Origins”
First Line: So long ago that we weren’t people then.
Accepted by: Salmagundi.
|
January 1, 1972 |
dc6.41 | “Indian Caves in the Dry
Country”
First Line: These are some canyons.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
July 1, 1966 |
dc6.42 | “People of the South Wind”
First Line: One day sun found a new canyon.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
June 1, 1970 |
dc6.43 | “Touches [in a Cave]”
First Line: Late, you can hear the stars. And beyond them.
Accepted by: Arlington Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1971 |
dc6.44 | “Bring the North”
First Line: Mushroom, Soft Ear, Old Memory.
Accepted by: Field.
|
February 1, 1969 |
dc6.45 | “Airport at Anchorage”
First Line: One plane dragging its.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
March 1, 1969 |
dc6.46 | “Watching”
First Line: The best way is, watch the moon after you.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
October 1, 1970 |
dc6.47 | “Sioux Haiku”
First Line: On a relief map.
|
January 1, 1966 |
dc6.48 | “Report to Crazy Horse”
First Line: All the Sioux were defeated. A few.
Accepted by: Antaeus and Critical Quarterly.
|
December 1, 1969 |
dc6.49 | “People with Whetstones”
First Line: Hardworking hunters beyond the taiga.
Accepted by: Granta.
|
June 1, 1963 |
dc6.50 | “Stories to Live in the World
With”
First Line: A long rope of gray smoke was.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
March 1, 1971 |
dc6.51 | “Wind World”
First Line: One time Wind World.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
dc6.52 | “Deer Stolen”
First Line: Deer have stood around our house.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
September 1, 1955 |
dc6.53 | “Earth”
First Line: When the earth doesn’t shake, when the sky.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc6.54 | “Scene in the Country by a Telegraph
Line”
First Line: The father staggers to act it all out.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
November 1, 1967 |
dc6.55 | “Lost Meteorite in the Coast
Range”
First Line: No foot comes here, where.
Accepted by: Sumac.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc6.56 | “Widow Who Taught at an Army
School”
First Line: She planted bullets in a windowbox.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc6.57 | “Little Ways That Encourage Good
Fortune”
First Line: Wisdom is having things right in your life.
Accepted by: World Order.
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October 1, 1956 |
dc6.58 | “Owl”
First Line: An owl - the cold with eyes.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 1, 1958 |
dc6.59 | “Crossing the Desert”
First Line: Little animals call.
Accepted by: Mill Mountain Review.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc6.60 | “After That Sound, After That
Sight”
First Line: After that sound we weren’t people .
Accepted by: Amanuensis.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc6.61 | “Journey”
First Line: You ramble over the wilderness, a bear or.
Accepted by: Arlington Quarterly.
|
February 1, 1971 |
dc6.62 | “Whole Story (later version)”
First Line: Touched by the blast, I.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
December 1, 1970 |
dc6.63 | “Whole Story (earlier
version)”
First Line: I was a victim touched by.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
December 1, 1970 |
dc6.64 | “Report from a Far Place”
First Line: subtitle, part 3.
Accepted by: Garret.
|
undated |
dc6.65 | “Moment”
First Line: It happens lonely - no one.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
August 1, 1969 |
dc6.66 | “Report from a Far Place”
First Line: Making these word things.
Accepted by: Garret.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc6.67 | “Swerve”
First Line: Halfway across a bridge one night.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
January 1, 1970 |
dc6.68 | “Freedom”
First Line: Freedom is not following a river.
Accepted by: New American Review.
|
May 1, 1967 |
dc6.69 | “Little Lost Orphans”
First Line: Leaves took them in, lost.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc6.70 | “Eskimo National Anthem”
First Line: Wherever I work, some vibrations.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
September 1, 1968 |
dc6.71 | “People Who Went By in Winter”
First Line: The morning man came in to report.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 1, 1968 |
dc6.72 | “Witness”
First Line: This is the hand I dipped in the Missouri.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
April 1, 1967 |
dc6.73 | “Now”
First Line: Where we live, the teakettle whistles out.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
January 1, 1968 |
dc6.74 | “Blackberries Are Back”
First Line: Blackberries are back. They cling near.
Accepted by: Redstart.
|
January 1, 1969 |
dc6.75 | “Composed, Composed”
First Line: The flat people in magazines hear.
Accepted by: Other Side.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc6.76 | “Have You Heard This One?”
First Line: A woman forged her face.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
June 1, 1967 |
dc6.77 | “Song in the Manner of Flannery
O’Connor”
First Line: Snow on the mountain - water in.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc6.78 | “Ozymandias’s Brother”
First Line: Without the style of Ozymandias, therefore.
Accepted by: Carleton Miscellany and Granta.
|
January 1, 1963 |
dc6.79 | “Juncos”
First Line: They operate from elsewhere.
Accepted by: Pebble.
|
December 1, 1966 |
dc6.80 | “Dear Mother”
First Line: Inside this camera I am tied to the film.
Accepted by: Microcoos.
|
February 1, 1968 |
dc6.81 | “Our Time’s Name”
First Line: Uncle Relevant has.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
December 1, 1968 |
dc6.82 | “Stick in the Forest”
First Line: The stick in the forest that pointed.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc6.83 | “For the Governor”
First Line: Sometimes I think how heartbeat by heartbeat.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
September 1, 1969 |
dc6.84 | “Vespers”
First Line: As the living pass, they bow.
|
May 1, 1972 |
dc7: Put-together for Stories That Could Be True, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 6/Folder dc7
Assembled in 1977.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc7.1 | half-title |
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dc7.2 | Acknowledgment page 1 |
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dc7.3 | Acknowledgment page 2 |
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dc7.4 | “For My Party the Rain" (MS
copy)
First Line: epigraph: You again, raindrop.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
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dc7.5 | “Roll Call" (documentary copy)
First Line: epigraph: You again, raindrop.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
October 1, 1973 |
dc7.6 | “Believing”
subtitle, part 1.
|
|
dc7.7 | “Our Story”
First Line: Remind me again - together we.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 1, 1976 |
dc7.8 | “Always”
First Line: Inside the trees, where tomorrow.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
May 1, 1973 |
dc7.9 | “Story That Could Be True”
First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
November 1, 1973 |
dc7.10 | “Burning House”
First Line: What does the floor hear - that cousin to earth?.
Accepted by: North American Review.
|
September 1, 1964 |
dc7.11 | “Wovoka’s Witness”
First Line: The people around me.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1973 |
dc7.12 | “Things in the Wild Need Salt”
First Line: Of the many histories, Earth tells only one.
Accepted by: Modern Poetry Studies.
|
September 1, 1974 |
dc7.13 | “Blackbirds”
First Line: One day we sang.
Accepted by: Mikrokosm.
|
October 1, 1968 |
dc7.14 | “Some Evening”
First Line: In the form of mist, from under a stone.
Accepted by: New Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
dc7.15 | “Heard Under a Tin Sign at the
Beach”
First Line: I am the wind. Long ago.
Accepted by: Modern Poetry Studies.
|
June 1, 1974 |
dc7.16 | “Accountability”
First Line: Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
February 1, 1975 |
dc7.17 | “Message from the Wanderer(4th
version)”
First Line: Today outside your prison I stand.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1967 |
dc7.18 | “Message from the Wanderer (3 earlier
versions)”
First Line: Today outside your prison I stand .
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1967 |
dc7.19 | “Being Good”
subtitle, part 2.
|
|
dc7.20 | “Look”
First Line: From my head this bubble labeled “Love”.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
April 23, 1975 |
dc7.21 | “Song Now”
First Line: Guitar string is.
|
April 1, 1970 |
dc7.22 | “At the Playground”
First Line: Away down deep and away up high.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc7.23 | “Artist, Come Home”
First Line: Remember how bright it is.
|
April 13, 1975 |
dc7.24 | “Wild Horse Lore”
First Line: Downhill, any gait will serve.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 21, 1975 |
dc7.25 | “Fictions”
First Line: They make a song for their dogs, up north.
Accepted by: North American Review.
|
May 1, 1966 |
dc7.26 | “My Party the Rain”
First Line: Loves upturned faces, laves everybody.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
December 1, 1965 |
dc7.27 | “On a Church Lawn”
First Line: Dandelion cavalry, light little saviors.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1967 |
dc7.28 | “Ducks Down in the Meadow”
First Line: Ducks begin to wake - they’ll never.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
May 1, 1975 |
dc7.29 | “Another Old Guitar”
First Line: For years I was tuned a few notes too high.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc7.30 | “Learning to Live in the
World”
subtitle, part 3.
|
|
dc7.31 | “Slave on the Headland”
First Line: When they brought me here from the north island.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
January 1, 1976 |
dc7.32 | “One Life”
First Line: Pascal glanced at infinity.
Accepted by: Poetry Bag.
|
December 1, 1965 |
dc7.33 | “Little Girl by the Fence at
School”
First Line: Grass that was moving found all shades of brown.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
December 1, 1970 |
dc7.34 | “Growing Up”
First Line: One of my wings beat faster.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 1, 1973 |
dc7.35 | “At the Un-National Monument Along the
Canadian Border”
First Line: This is the field where the battle did not happen.
Accepted by: American Literary Accents.
|
March 1, 1962 |
dc7.36 | “Surviving a Poetry Circuit”
First Line: My name is Old Mortality - mine is the hand.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
February 1, 1975 |
dc7.37 | “One of Your Lives”
First Line: One of your lives, hurt by the mere sight of.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
March 16, 1975 |
dc7.38 | “Ask Me”
First Line: Some time when the river is ice, ask me.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
December 1, 1974 |
dc7.39 | “Bird Inside a Box”
First Line: A bird inside a box, the box will.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
April 1, 1975 |
dc7.40 | “Whispered into the Ground”
subtitle, part 4.
|
|
dc7.41 | “Moment”
First Line: In breath, where little kingdoms hide.
|
December 1, 1969 |
dc7.42 | “Apologia Pro Vita Sua”
First Line: As I traveled the earth I heard.
Accepted by: PTA Magazine.
|
March 1, 1972 |
dc7.43 | “Broken Home”
First Line: Here is a cup left empty in their.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc7.44 | “Islands”
First Line: There could be an island.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
September 1, 1974 |
dc7.45 | “Sitting Up Late”
First Line: Beyond silence, on the other side merging.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
July 1, 1975 |
dc7.46 | “One of the Years”
First Line: Hat pulled low at work.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
May 1, 1975 |
dc7.47 | “Whenever It Is”
First Line: You stand in the magnet’s embrace.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
March 1, 1974 |
dc7.48 | “Bridge Begins in the Trees”
First Line: In an owl cry, night became real night.
|
May 1, 1957 |
dc7.49 | “Peace Walk”
First Line: We wondered what our walk should mean.
Accepted by: Focus/Midwest.
|
November 1, 1961 |
dc7.50 | “This Town: Winter Morning (2
versions)”
First Line: This town has a spire.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc7.51 | “Whispered into the Ground”
First Line: Where the wind ended and we came down.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
April 1, 1973 |
dc9: Put-together for Wyoming Circuit, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 7/Folder dc9
Assembled in 1980.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc9.1 | “Welcome Hunters” (Wyoming Circuit
1)
First Line: You dream in The Sunset. Blood flows from the pickup.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.2 | “Out the South Road" (Wyoming Circuit
2)
First Line: The sheep don’t know if it’s cold. They stand.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.3 | “Staring at Souvenirs of the West"
(Wyoming Circuit, 3)
First Line: What if a buffalo eye, big.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.4 | “By Cheryl’s Old Place" (Wyoming Circuit,
4)
First Line: Fleet as a bronco the road goes.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.5 | “Against the Morning Light" (Wyoming
Circuit, 5)
First Line: A north wind caught young cottonwoods.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.6 | “Address to the Senior Class”
First Line: Coming down the hill into this town.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc9.7 | “Seeing a Red Rock”
First Line: Over near Tensleep the highway comes down.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc10: Put-together for Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 7/Folder dc10
Assembled in 1980.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc10.1 | Cover page |
undated |
dc10.2 | Poem list |
undated |
dc10.3 | Index |
undated |
dc10.4 | “For Someone Else”
Dedication.
|
undated |
dc10.5 | “For the Readers”
Second dedication.
|
undated |
dc10.6 | “Lines to Introduce Fragments from a
Journal”
First Line: Go, little book I never thought.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc10.7 | “Notice What This Poem Is Not
Doing”
First Line: The light along the hills in the morning.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 1, 1975 |
dc10.8 | “Nobody”
First Line: Quiet when I come home, you.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
November 2, 1976 |
dc10.9 | “Places That Will Be Saved”
First Line: Sacred for what’s not yet done.
|
June 1, 1976 |
dc10.10 | “Hinge in the Wind" (two
versions)
First Line: When they come by, I sing them away.
Accepted by: Missouri Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
dc10.11 | “Answerers”
First Line: There are songs too wide for sound.
Accepted by: Contemporary American Poetry.
|
October 1, 1976 |
dc10.12 | “Early Ones”
First Line: They kept it all level. And low. Even.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
dc10.13 | “End of the Man Experiment”
First Line: In The North a great wind lived.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
August 1, 1971 |
dc10.14 | “Pretty Stone”
First Line: Some other year, if the sun.
|
March 1, 1976 |
dc10.15 | “Explanation”
First Line: They tell about a train.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
March 1, 1962 |
dc10.16 | “Learning Your Place [Learned While Eating
Popcorn at the Zoo]”
First Line: They have other studies in their eyes.
Accepted by: Red Cedar Review.
|
April 1, 1976 |
dc10.17 | “By the Old Deer Trail”
First Line: Into the forest under the bough.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
November 1, 1958 |
dc10.18 | “Buffalo Skull" (with earlier version, On
the Plains)
First Line: All day devoted to earth.
Accepted by: Dacotah Territory.
|
January 1, 1969 |
dc10.19 | “Treatise: Influence of Howls on the
Frontier”
First Line: Wolf howls alone devastated the West.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
|
April 1, 1965 |
dc10.20 | “Hand in Water" [pub. as “Poem Written for
the Sewanee Review but Published Elsewhere”]
First Line: Dolphins live like heroes without hands.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 1, 1967 |
dc10.21 | “Through the Junipers”
First Line: In the afternoon I wander away through.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 1, 1976 |
dc10.22 | “Wherever You Go on the
Island”
First Line: Built slowly from fog, led.
Accepted by: Paumanok Rising.
|
November 1, 1975 |
dc10.23 | “Things That Happen Where There Aren’t Any
People”
First Line: It’s cold on Lakeside Road.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
July 1, 1976 |
dc10.24 | “Remote But There”
First Line: Mornings a shaft of light pauses to read.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc10.25 | “History of Tomorrow”
First Line: It is the stones, they say, that began.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
November 1, 1975 |
dc10.26 | “Crossing the Desert”
First Line: Little animals call.
Accepted by: Mill Mountain Review.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc10.27 | “What It Is”
First Line: By luck, it finds where to flow.
Accepted by: .
|
March 1, 1976 |
dc10.28 | “Dawn on the Warm Springs
Reservation”
First Line: Into its frost-white branches.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
February 18, 1977 |
dc10.29 | “Dialectic of the Mountains"
First Line: Descending at 60 the slow dream of the freeway.
Accepted by: Carlelton Miscellany.
|
April 1, 1960 |
dc10.30 | “St Augustine’s Prayer”
First Line: In the world of Augustine a part of God.
Accepted by: Genesis.
|
January 1, 1959 |
dc10.31 | “Place in the Woods”
First Line: An early place - come near and look.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
July 1, 1976 |
dc10.32 | “Address to the Vacationers at Cape
Lookout”
First Line: The whole weight of the ocean smashes on rocks.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
January 1, 1963 |
dc10.33 | “Any Old Time”
First Line: Deep in the morning.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
dc10.34 | “Being Still”
First Line: Try it, being stil in the mountains.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc10.35 | “Offering”
First Line: Had you noticed - a shadow.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc11: Put-together for A Glass Face in the Rain, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 7/Folder dc11
Assembled in 1982.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc11.1 | handmade cover |
undated |
dc11.2 | Title page |
May 1, 1981 |
dc11.3 | Contents page |
undated |
dc11.4 | “Smoke Signals - a Dedication”
First Line: There are people on a parallel way. We do not.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc11.5 | “How It Began”
First Line: They struggled their legs and blindly loved, those
puppies.
Accepted by: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
|
April 1, 1978 |
dc11.6 | “Tuned In Late One Night”
First Line: Listen - this is a faint station.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc11.7 | “Friends”
First Line: How far friends are! They forget you.
Accepted by: Conjnctions.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc11.8 | “Rover”
First Line: She came out of the field - low.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
December 31, 1978 |
dc11.9 | “Knowing”
First Line: To know the other world you turn.
Accepted by: Harvard Magazine.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc11.10 | “They Say”
First Line: Now and again in some sound you discover.
Accepted by: Sceptre.
|
April 1, 1978 |
dc11.11 | “Touch on Your Sleeve”
First Line: Consider the slow descent.
Accepted by: Blair & Ketchum’s Country Journal.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc11.12 | “Glimpses”
First Line: One time when the wind blows it is years.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1979 |
dc11.13 | “Looking Across the River”
First Line: We were driving the river road.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.14 | “Our Cave”
First Line: Because it was good, we were afraid.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc11.15 | “Not Very Loud”
First Line: Now is the time of the moths that come.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc11.16 | “Why We Need Fantasy”
First Line: It’s a sensational story.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
March 1, 1979 |
dc11.17 | “Passing a Pile of Stones”
First Line: A shadow hides in every stone.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.18 | “Event at Big Eddy”
First Line: The whole weight of the river.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
February 1, 1970 |
dc11.19 | “How to Get Back”
First Line: By believing, you can get there - that edge.
Accepted by: Sceptre.
|
February 1, 1978 |
dc11.20 | “Some Night Again”
First Line: When the world vanishes, I will come back.
Accepted by: Tinderbox.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc11.21 | Part 2: Things That Come |
undated |
dc11.22 | “Things That Come”
First Line: After it came down from the mountains.
Accepted by: Two Pears.
|
September 20, 1979 |
dc11.23 | “There Is Blindness”
First Line: There is blindness; there is.
Accepted by: Three Rivers Poetry Journal.
|
December 22, 1976 |
dc11.24 | “Old Pickerel in Walden Pond”
First Line: One winter - open, I remember it was.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc11.25 | “Finding Out”
First Line: No, not dark. Even at night a glow from a shaft.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
February 1, 1977 |
dc11.26 | “Acoma Mesa”
First Line: Surrounded by air, we live where.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc11.27 | “Dark Wind”
First Line: Jean, who no longer is, was.
Accepted by: Practices.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc11.28 | “Glimpse in the Crowd”
First Line: A Parachute catches and suddenly you know.
Accepted by: National Forum.
|
July 1, 1978 |
dc11.29 | “Friends: A Recognition”
First Line: It came silent in my thought.
Accepted by: Helix.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.30 | “Class Reunion”
First Line: Where others ran I run my hand.
Accepted by: Critic.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc11.31 | “Sabbath”
First Line: A light - it’s only the sun - has broken.
Accepted by: Harvard Magazine.
|
May 1, 1977 |
dc11.32 | “Child’s Face in a Small Town”
First Line: Sometimes it happens a storm.
Accepted by: Blue Beech.
|
March 1, 1978 |
dc11.33 | “Watching a Candle”
First Line: A candle went down its long stair.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
May 1, 1977 |
dc11.34 | “Child in the Evening”
First Line: Why does this house have no windows, Mother?.
Accepted by: Black Warrior Review.
|
September 1, 1973 |
dc11.35 | “Murder Bridge”
First Line: You look over the edge, down, down.
Accepted by: Field.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc11.36 | “Seeing and Perceiving”
First Line: You learn to like the scene that everything.
Accepted by: South and West.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.37 | “Maybe”
First Line: Maybe (it’s a fear), maybe.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 19, 1980 |
dc11.38 | “How It Is”
First Line: It is war. They put us on a train and.
Accepted by: Columbia.
|
March 1, 1980 |
dc11.39 | “Late Guest”
First Line: I guess I thought it was music - that sound.
Accepted by: Morse book.
|
June 10, 1980 |
dc11.40 | “Later”
First Line: Sometimes, loping along, I almost find.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
July 1, 1978 |
dc11.41 | “In a Corner”
First Line: Walls hold each other up when they meet.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc11.42 | “Why I Say Adios”
First Line: From their wide, still country words.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
May 1, 1980 |
dc11.43 | “Remembering”
First Line: When there was air, when you could.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc11.44 | Part 3: Revelations
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc11.45 | “Sending These Messages”
First Line: Over these writings I bent my head.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.46 | “Glass Face in the Rain”
First Line: Sometime tou’ll walk all night. You’ll.
Accepted by: River Styx.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc11.47 | “Yellow Cars”
First Line: Some of the cars are yellow, that go.
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 1, 1980 |
dc11.48 | “Torque”
First Line: One day all the people c ome out on to the street.
Accepted by: Slow Loris.
|
February 1, 1979 |
dc11.49 | “My Life”
First Line: In my cradle and then driving.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
May 1, 1979 |
dc11.50 | “Message from Space”
First Line: Everything that happens is the message.
Accepted by: Pequod.
|
July 1, 1979 |
dc11.51 | “Revelation”
First Line: When I came back to earth, it was my bike.
Accepted by: Field.
|
January 1, 1981 |
dc11.52 | “On the Road Last Night”
First Line: On the road last night I heard the tires.
Accepted by: San Jose Studies.
|
December 22, 1976 |
dc11.53 | “After Arguing Against the Contention That
Art Must Come from Discontent”
First Line: Whispering to each handhold, “I’ll be back”.
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
July 15, 1978 |
dc11.54 | “Course in Creative Writing”
First Line: They want a wilderness with a map.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
undated |
dc11.55 | “Things I Learned Last Week”
First Line: Ants, when they meet each other.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
March 1, 1980 |
dc11.56 | “Incident”
First Line: They had this cloud they kept like a zeppelin.
Accepted by: Slow Loris.
|
May 1, 1979 |
dc11.57 | “Fiction”
First Line: We would get a map of our farm as big.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
April 1, 1980 |
dc11.58 | “Our Kind”
First Line: Our mother knew our worth.
Accepted by: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc11.59 | “Hanging Tough”
First Line: All right, I’ll ask about home: - How is the grass.
Accepted by: Quest.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc11.60 | “Learning to Like the New
School”
First Line: They brought me where it was bright and said.
Accepted by: Canto.
|
December 21, 1978 |
dc11.61 | “Catechism”
First Line: Who challenged my soldier mother?.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
July 1, 1978 |
dc11.62 | “School Days”
First Line: After the test they sent an expert .
Accepted by: Field.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc11.63 | “We Interrupt to Bring You”
First Line: It will be coming toward Earth, and.
Accepted by: Quest.
|
November 1, 1976 |
dc11.64 | “My Mother Was a Soldier”
First Line: If no one moved on order, she would kill.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
April 1, 1978 |
dc11.65 | “Anticipating”
First Line: Keeping your word is like putting a bell into.
Accepted by: Three Sisters .
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc11.66 | “When You Go Anywhere" [Verses for the
Wall By Your Bed, 1]
First Line: This passport your face (not you.
Accepted by: .
|
undated |
dc11.67 | Part 4: Troubleshooting
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc11.68 | “Now wait -”
First Line: If you close this book, one page.
Accepted by: Asphodel.
|
December 1, 1977 |
dc11.69 | “Once in the 40’s”
First Line: We were alone one night on a long.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
July 1, 1978 |
dc11.70 | “Around You, Your House”
First Line: I give you the rain, its long hollow.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc11.71 | “Cameo of Your Mother”
First Line: What the blind have for their light.
Accepted by: Harvard Magazine.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc11.72 | “Ruby Was Her Name”
First Line: My mother, who opened my eyes, who.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc11.73 | “At the Falls: A Birthday
Picture”
First Line: A few leaves flutter still, even on the maple.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
February 1, 1977 |
dc11.74 | “Letting You Go”
First Line: Day brings what is going to be. Trees.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
September 1, 1974 |
dc11.75 | “Troubleshooting”
First Line: On still days when country telephone.
Accepted by: Black Warrior Review.
|
October 22, 1977 |
dc11.76 | “Letter Not to Deliver”
First Line: Why should it be anguish (but anguish.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
October 1, 1978 |
dc11.77 | “Having the Right Name”
First Line: It is like a color inside your head that.
Accepted by: Beyond Baroque.
|
August 1, 1978 |
dc11.78 | “Day to Remember”
First Line: I.m standing at Lakeside Drive with my bike.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc11.79 | “Remembering Brother Bob”
First Line: Tell me, you years I had for my life.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc11.80 | “Places with Meaning”
First Line: Say it’s a picnic on the Fourth of July.
Accepted by: Blue Beech.
|
July 1, 1978 |
dc11.81 | “Confessor" (two versions)
First Line: The girl hiding in the hall on the ferry.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
February 1, 1978 |
dc11.82 | “Scene”
First Line: Grandpa gives me a candy watch.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
March 1, 1976 |
dc11.83 | “With Neighbors One Afternoon”
First Line: Someone said, stirring their tea, “I would.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc11.84 | “Absences”
First Line: Once when the waves were talking one said.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc11.85 | Part 5: The Color That
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc11.86 | “Tentative Welcome to Readers”
First Line: It is my hope that those who blame.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1978 |
dc11.87 | “Color That Really Is”
First Line: The color that really is comes over a desert.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
July 24, 1978 |
dc11.87 | “Journey”
First Line: Through many doors it’s been - through.
Accepted by: Chowder Review.
|
March 1, 1979 |
dc11.88 | “Friends, Farewell”
First Line: After the chores are done I tune.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
August 1, 1978 |
dc11.89 | “If I Could Be Like Wallace
Stevens”
First Line: The octopus would be my model.
Accepted by: Wallace Stevens Journal.
|
May 1, 1979 |
dc11.90 | “Yellow Flowers”
First Line: While I was dying I saw a flower.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc11.91 | “Salvaged Parts”
First Line: Fire took the house. Black bricks.
Accepted by: Three Rivers Poetry Journal.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc11.92 | “Survivor”
First Line: Remember that party we had, the one.
Accepted by: Ark.
|
October 1, 1978 |
dc11.93 | “One Time”
First Line: When evening had flowed between houses.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
March 1, 1979 |
dc11.94 | “Little Night Stories”
First Line: There was a certain flake. For miles it.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 1, 1977 |
dc11.95 | “Receiver”
First Line: Listening late at parties, hearing.
Accepted by: Quest.
|
January 1, 1976 |
dc11.96 | “From Hallmark or Somewhere”
First Line: Think now of a mountain - say, that one.
Accepted by: Cornfield Review.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc11.97 | “Much Have I Traveled”
First Line: When we heard it like an ocean.
Accepted by: San Jose.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc11.98 | “Once in a Dream”
First Line: Once after we hid from each other you passed.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
November 1, 1977 |
dc11.99 | “Late Flight”
First Line: Home from far, moon on the wing.
Accepted by: Harpoon.
|
February 1, 1979 |
dc11.100 | “Whatever Happened to the
Beats?”
First Line: On that street in San Francisco.
Accepted by: Modern Poetry Studies.
|
December 1, 1976 |
dc11.101 | “What I’ll See That Afternoon”
First Line: The young man who has to look.
Accepted by: San Jose Studies.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc11.102 | “Pegleg Lookout”
First Line: Those days, having the morning clouds, and with no one.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
May 24, 1977 |
dc11.103 | “Yucca Flowers”
First Line: In the hills today if you bow.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc11.104 | “From Our Balloon Over the
Provinces”
First Line: From our balloon floating early.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
February 1, 1980 |
dc12a: Put-together for Eleven Untitled Poems, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12a
Assembled in 1968.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12a.1 | Eleven Untitled Poems
typescripts for 3 of 11 poems, notes for 4 others. "An attempt Oct 79 to
gather...."
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc12a.2 | “Tragic Song”
First Line: All still - when summer is over.
|
undated |
dc12a.3 | “These Days”
First Line: Hurt people crawl....
|
undated |
dc12a.4 | “In Fog”
First Line: In fog a tree steps back....
|
undated |
dc12a.5 | “In Fur”
First Line: They hurt no one....
|
undated |
dc12a.6 | “Proclamation”
First Line: Today will be listen day.
Accepted by: Aperture.
|
February 1, 1962 |
dc12a.7 | “At the Cabin”
First Line: Across the snowed-in roof.
Accepted by: Etchngs.
|
December 1, 1957 |
dc12a.8 | “No One Who Trusts Words”
First Line: No one who trusts words can learn.
Accepted by: Aperture.
|
March 1, 1956 |
dc12b: Put-together for Weather, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12b
Assembled in 1969.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12b.1 | “Butterflies in the Radiator
Grill”
First Line: Arrayed like Solomon.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1968 |
dc12b.2 | “In Our Country”
First Line: Yellow light.
Accepted by: Cafe Solo.
|
May 1, 1968 |
dc12b.3 | “Boone Children”
First Line: You can hear the calendar munching leaves in autumn.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
January 1, 1968 |
dc12b.4 | “Nature Walk”
First Line: In the shaggy field.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1968 |
dc12b.5 | “Twelve Years Old”
First Line: Tired that day we were: we found.
Accepted by: Ladies' Home Journal.
|
May 15, 1945 |
dc12b.6 | “When We Got to Chitina”
First Line: No one was going to come.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc12b.7 | “Just to Let You Know”
First Line: The road from Bend, looking for a way.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1967 |
dc12b.8 | “In the Cold”
First Line: When I got out of the rocket.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
June 1, 1965 |
dc12b.9 | “After Spring and Summer”
First Line: Sometimes a wind mentions your (cloud) face.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc12b.10 | “On Her Slate at School”
First Line: On her slate at school my mother wrote 'Winter'.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 20, 1964 |
dc12b.11 | “Brother”
First Line: It’s cold where Bob is.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc12b.12 | “Farewell Picture”
First Line: My eyes look their twinned corridor far.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
February 1, 1965 |
dc12b.13 | “That Weather”
First Line: Our boy was a child when the good.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 1, 1966 |
dc12c: Put-together for Temporary Facts, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12c
Assembled in 1970.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12c.1 | “Temporary Facts”
Cover.
|
April 7, 1969 |
dc12c.2 | “Farm World”
First Line: Richening, ripening sinks the sun.
Accepted by: Hawk & Whippoorwill.
|
January 1, 1953 |
dc12c.3 | “Inland Murmur”
First Line: In the Cimarron hills.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
March 29, 1950 |
dc12c.4 | “That Autumn Instant”
First Line: You stand on a hill in July.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc12c.5 | “Walk with My Father When I Was
Eight”
First Line: Here is a space for the way the day started.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
September 1, 1960 |
dc12c.6 | “North of Liberal”
First Line: You open your mouth to say “Wait!”.
|
December 1, 1968 |
dc12c.7 | “Day at a Time”
First Line: One summer at dusk.
|
February 1, 1967 |
dc12c.8 | “Toad”
First Line: Hop, hope. Hop again.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
February 1, 1957 |
dc12c.9 | “When I Worked as a Lawn-Man”
First Line: You passed in a convertible.
Accepted by: Medford Tribune.
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc12c.10 | “Temporary Facts”
First Line: That look you had, Agnes, was a temporary fact.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
September 1, 1954 |
dc12c.11 | “Nine P.M.”
First Line: Moths go by.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
February 3, 1949 |
dc12c.12 | “Discovery”
First Line: Plowing the nest of the lark.
Accepted by: Northwest Challenge.
|
March 1, 1953 |
dc12c.13 | “Robin at a Time”
First Line: A robin at a time.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
January 1, 1956 |
dc12c.14 | “Demolition Project”
First Line: Turn off the rocker where Momma sewed.
Accepted by: Tiger’s Eye.
|
July 21, 1946 |
dc12c.15 | “Not Policy, But Love”
First Line: Regarding river lights.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
February 1, 1956 |
dc12c.16 | Correspondence with Duane
Schneider
10 pages
|
dc12d: Put-together for That Other Alone, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12d
Assembled in 1973.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12d.1 | Cover for "That Other Alone” |
September 1, 1973 |
dc12d.2 | “Tonight”
First Line: Tonight and another night linger.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 15, 1972 |
dc12d.3 | “Any Journey”
First Line: When God watches you walk, you are.
|
May 1, 1972 |
dc12d.4 | “At the Edge of Town”
First Line: Sometimes when clouds float.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1972 |
dc12d.5 | “Witnessing for Our Youth”
First Line: Remember us to the deep caves.
|
January 1, 1972 |
dc12d.6 | “These [Those] Leaves”
First Line: Somewhere a forest, every.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1970 |
dc12d.7 | “Church Keeps On”
First Line: No house can last, no house.
|
April 1, 1972 |
dc12d.8 | “Rebuttal”
First Line: Some of you words that follow me.
|
May 1, 1972 |
dc12d.9 | “Going Away”
First Line: On the way to join carbon again.
|
February 1, 1972 |
dc12d.10 | “Way It Will Be”
First Line: Awake when the world turns over.
|
April 1, 1972 |
dc12d.11 | “Where We Live”
First Line: Inside a house I live, inside.
|
February 1, 1972 |
dc12d.12 | “Meditation”
First Line: Animals full of light.
|
October 1, 1972 |
dc12d.13 | “Conditions”
First Line: Torn when winter came.
|
May 1, 1972 |
dc12d.14 | “In Space”
First Line: All the islands in the ocean.
|
May 1, 1971 |
dc12d.15 | “Beginning the Day”
First Line: It is still. No breeze, no one.
|
September 1, 1972 |
dc12e: Put-together for Going Places, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12e
Assembled in 1974.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12e.1 | Title page |
December 1, 1973 |
dc12e.2 | “Part One: Before Anyone Died”
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc12e.3 | “Solstice”
First Line: On a certain day the sun.
Accepted by: Window Pains.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc12e.4 | “Before Anyone Died”
First Line: West of home where we lay talking quietly.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
February 1, 1960 |
dc12e.5 | “Summer Game”
First Line: All over the mountains we looked for.
Accepted by: Raven.
|
September 1, 1969 |
dc12e.6 | “Time Capsule”
First Line: That year the news.
Accepted by: Denver Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1965 |
dc12e.7 | “Rambling On”
First Line: Ending a visit.
Accepted by: Lotus.
|
January 1, 1971 |
dc12e.8 | “Even Now”
First Line: Wherever I go such winter shakes our town.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 1, 1961 |
dc12e.9 | “Mr. Fear”
First Line: At the last he knew everyone.
Accepted by: Hart.
|
July 2, 1970 |
dc12e.10 | Part Two: A Lawn Like Texas
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc12e.11 | “Last Time”
First Line: They headed toward the Platte, a lawn like Texas.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 9, 1956 |
dc12e.12 | “Fort Rock”
First Line: Dead grass makes an arc on the sand.
Accepted by: Eastern Oregon Literary Supplement.
|
April 1, 1965 |
dc12e.13 | “At Missoula”
First Line: We hunted bitterroot over the patient mountain.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1965 |
dc12e.14 | “Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey
Found”
First Line: Brown, brittle, wait-a-bit weeds.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
September 1, 1968 |
dc12e.15 | “Old Scout”
First Line: Holding heretical ideas about non-controversial subjects.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1954 |
dc12e.16 | “Knife Dialogue”
First Line: Little Knife said to Big Knife.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
December 1, 1969 |
dc12e.17 | Part Three: Local Witness
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc12e.18 | “Visions”
First Line: Once in Mexico an old man was.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc12e.19 | “With the Gift of a Flower, for the First
Birthday of the Computer for Humble Oil on the North Slope of
Alaska”
First Line: Every tree in The North now has a number.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
February 1, 1970 |
dc12e.20 | “It’s Like Wyoming”
First Line: At sunset you have piled the empties and.
Accepted by: Cutbank.
|
July 9, 1972 |
dc12e.21 | “Reno”
First Line: Mouth, hands, and cascade hair.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
September 1, 1969 |
dc12e.22 | “At a Writers’ Conference in
Texas”
First Line: An insect in the mesquite calls it name.
Accepted by: Welsh mag.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc12e.23 | “Tourist Country”
First Line: Shadows, like Navahoes, wear velvet.
Accepted by: North American Review.
|
May 1, 1963 |
dc12e.24 | “Over Utah: The Angel Moroni”
First Line: Smoke or cloud cities, windy.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1973 |
dc12e.25 | “Bill Watson’s Report from
Canada”
First Line: Safe in their giant glass house.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
October 1, 1965 |
dc12e.26 | “Sitka”
First Line: It began to come true, that long cold.
Accepted by: Hawaii Literary Review.
|
March 1, 1972 |
dc12e.27 | Part Four: Bringing It
Together
Contents page.
|
undated |
dc12e.28 | “Terms of Surrender”
First Line: We hide in the dead grass.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
September 1, 1971 |
dc12e.29 | “Remnants of a Poem, Obscure Parts Burned
Away, in a Freak Accident at the Office of the Westigan Review" [The
Tree House]
First Line: Noon in the elms, wide noon.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc12e.30 | “Locust Trees”
First Line: One kind of touch is a religious greeting.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
August 1, 1960 |
dc12e.31 | “At the Breaks Near the River”
First Line: Autumn some year will discover again.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1967 |
dc12f: Put-together for Braided Apart, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 8/Folder dc12f
Assembled in 1976.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12f.1 | Cover and contents |
undated |
dc12f.2 | “Attenuate”
First Line: Some time, following out a sound.
Accepted by: Aperture.
|
March 4, 1952 |
dc12f.3 | “Shells”
First Line: When they turn the dial to “know”.
Accepted by: Bridge.
|
August 10, 1948 |
dc12f.4 | “Aquarium at Seaside”
First Line: Groping stars culled up from a field.
Accepted by: Edge.
|
March 1, 1970 |
dc12f.5 | “Saint of Thought" [with four previous
versions]
First Line: One moment each noon, faced.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
July 5, 1970 |
dc12f.6 | “Rich Man”
First Line: I drink it for luck.
Accepted by: Seneca Review.
|
February 1, 1970 |
dc12f.7 | “For a Marker”
First Line: Where I lay first the grass.
Accepted by: Slackwater Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
dc12f.8 | “Happy in Sunlight”
First Line: Maybe it’s out by Glass Butte some.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
September 1, 1975 |
dc12f.9 | “Gutters of Jackson: Cache Street North
Documentary copy not present in this file. It is located at dc12h.10.
|
August 1, 1975 |
dc12f.10 | “PMLA Biblio. Is Limited to Certain
Printed Works”
First Line: There are others, and mss.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
December 1, 1963 |
dc12f.11 | “Sayings”
First Line: You wonder, sometimes.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc12f.12 | “At Archbishop Lamy’s Church in Santa
Fe”
First Line: A few leaves cling and skitter.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1972 |
dc12f.13 | “Pullman Trip" [Night Journey]
First Line: The hidden streams of Oregon.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
December 6, 1952 |
dc12f.14 | “At the Metolius River”
First Line: Water in that river.
Accepted by: Northwest Magazine.
|
September 1, 1954 |
dc12f.15 | “Peace Walk”
Documentary copy missing.
Accepted by: Focus/Midwest.
|
undated |
dc12f.16 | “One Day in August”
First Line: There in the suddenly.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
October 1, 1960 |
dc12f.17 | “Remembering a First-Grade Music
Teacher”
First Line: Her non-representational near face.
Accepted by: Bullfrog.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc12f.18 | “Good Horse”
First Line: They thought the balancing horse.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
January 1, 1966 |
dc12f.19 | “Prayers to Paste on Your
Tires”
First Line: No nails, no glass, no rocks.
Accepted by: Souther Voices.
|
January 1, 1973 |
dc12f.20 | “Saturday Nights”
First Line: My hands reason with steel.
Accepted by: West Coast Poetry Review.
|
January 1, 1971 |
dc12f.21 | “Talk from the Mountains”
First Line: Someone, or maybe only two branches.
Accepted by: Slackwater Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
dc12f.22 | “Proportioning”
First Line: At any proud hour the flame.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
February 1, 1959 |
dc12f.23 | “At the Coast”
First Line: When you fall you can lay your head.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc12f.24 | “At the Art Institute”
First Line: Heroes who thought they won.
Accepted by: Arena.
|
November 1, 1964 |
dc12g: Put-together for The Design on the Oriole, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12g
Assembled in 1977.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12g.1 | cover |
January 1, 1977 |
dc12g.2 | “It Rode with Us”
First Line: All things had their place. Even the wind.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1963 |
dc12g.3 | “Gift for Kit”
First Line: Fence wire sang - spring wind -.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
May 1, 1973 |
dc12g.4 | “Design on the Oriole”
First Line: Dragon blood, they say - little emblems.
|
December 1, 1959 |
dc12g.5 | “Coyote in the Zoo”
First Line: A yellow eye meets mine.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc12g.6 | “Across Nebraska”
First Line: Popcorn spoke. A cathedral praised.
Accepted by: Green River Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
dc12g.7 | “Canadian”
First Line: Hear the wild geese; know how their.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
April 1, 1972 |
dc12g.8 | “Frog Songs”
First Line: Edge of the meadow.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 1, 1971 |
dc12g.9 | “At the Apostle Islands”
First Line: We had a sled with a sail.
Accepted by: Runes.
|
March 1, 1970 |
dc12g.10 | “By the Deschutes Shore”
First Line: Millions of miles away at evening the sun.
Accepted by: Places.
|
June 1, 1974 |
dc12h: Put-together for All About Light, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12h
Assembled in 1978.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12h.1 | Permissions list |
undated |
dc12h.2 | Contents page |
December 7, 1977 |
dc12h.3 | “Light, and My Sudden Face”
First Line: I am the man whose heart.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
February 1, 1964 |
dc12h.4 | “Another Twilight”
First Line: Sometime you will be in a shop.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
October 1, 1975 |
dc12h.5 | “Some Lights”
First Line: You turn on a light in a room, and.
|
August 1, 1971 |
dc12h.6 | “Things About the Sun”
First Line: Any time the sun.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
August 1, 1973 |
dc12h.7 | “Rx Creative Writing:
Identity”
First Line: You take this pill, a new world.
Accepted by: Writer's Digest.
|
February 17, 1961 |
dc12h.8 | “Many Things Are Hidden by the
Light”
First Line: Now I remember, letting the dark.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
December 1, 1973 |
dc12h.9 | “Cave Painting”
First Line: It was like the moon, the open before us.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
December 1, 1973 |
dc12h.10 | “Gutters of Jackson: Cache Street
North”
First Line: Gum wrapper with nothing, Coors can.
Accepted by: Slackwater Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
dc12h.11 | “Charged by Moonlight”
First Line: Whatever this dance we’re in, the moon.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
November 1, 1975 |
dc12h.12 | “Home”
First Line: Our father owned a star.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
June 21, 1944 |
dc12h.13 | Correspondence with Duane Schneider &
permissions letters
20 items
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dc12i: Put-together for Smoke's Way, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12i
Assembled in 1978.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12i.1 | “Looking for You”
First Line: Looking for you through the gray rain.
Accepted by: Field.
|
June 1, 1976 |
dc12i.2 | “Glass Face in the Rain”
First Line: Sometime you’ll walk all night. You’ll.
Accepted by: River Styx.
|
undated |
dc12i.3 | “Smoke" (two copies)
First Line: Smoke’s way’s a good way - find.
Accepted by: Three Rivers Poetry.
|
January 1, 1977 |
dc12i.4 | “Glimpse by the Path”
First Line: Mitten, follow that hand.” All.
Accepted by: PTA Magazine.
|
March 1, 1972 |
dc12i.5 | “Watching a Candle”
First Line: A candle went down its long stair.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
May 1, 1977 |
dc12i.6 | “Much Have I Traveled”
First Line: When we heard it like the ocean.
Accepted by: Helios.
|
undated |
dc12i.7 | “At an Interval in Talk”
First Line: An owl call - round, globed as the moon.
Accepted by: Dalmo’ma.
|
undated |
dc12i.8 | “Finding Out”
First Line: No, not dark. Even at night a glow from a shaft.
Accepted by: Pacific Northwest Review of Books.
|
undated |
dc12i.9 | “In Our State No One Ever”
First Line: No one ever cared.
Accepted by: Rogue River Gorge.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc12i.10 | “Assurance" (two versions)
First Line: You will never be alone, you hear so deep.
Accepted by: Hand Book.
|
November 1, 1975 |
dc12i.11 | Correspondence with Scott
Walker
Four sheets
|
undated |
dc12j: Put-together for Tuft By Puff, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12j
Assembled in 1978.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12j.1 | cover |
May 19, 1977 |
dc12j.2 | contents page |
January 1, 1978 |
dc12j.3 | “Survival”
First Line: Evenings, we call quail.
Accepted by: The Journal.
|
August 1, 1965 |
dc12j.4 | “Talk Before Work”
First Line: Where you going, needle?.
Accepted by: Florida Review.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc12j.5 | “Casual Round-Up Sonnet”
First Line: Late, in the east-west canyons.
|
March 1, 1966 |
dc12j.6 | “It’s Time”
First Line: A woodpecker drilled back to.
Accepted by: Fiction International.
|
March 1, 1972 |
dc12j.7 | “Stories”
First Line: Up in our tree house.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
January 1, 1973 |
dc12j.8 | “Tennis with the Net Down”
First Line: The big taboo truck moved.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc12j.9 | “Uplifting Thoughts”
First Line: Jet engines, the Wright brothers.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
November 1, 1974 |
dc12j.10 | “Those Few”
First Line: They’ve gone.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
February 8, 1947 |
dc12j.11 | “Walking the Headland”
First Line: Stones at the coast may be the last.
Accepted by: Back Door.
|
May 1, 1968 |
dc12j.12 | “Beaver Talk”
First Line: Not all the lakes have names.
Accepted by: Dryad.
|
January 1, 1967 |
dc12j.13 | “From the Bengali”
First Line: True, there are tigers, and they.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
March 1, 1970 |
dc12j.14 | “You from There, Me from Here”
First Line: Tingaling, this is your telephone.
|
October 1, 1973 |
dc12j.15 | “At the Coast”
First Line: Every wave has.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc12j.16 | Letter to Walter Hamady |
February 7, 1978 |
dc12k: Put-together for The Quiet of the Land, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12k
Assembled in 1979.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12k.1 | cover |
undated |
dc12k.2 | “Early Morning" (two copies)
First Line: Inside this dream to come awake.
Accepted by: Anagnorisis.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc12k.3 | “One Leaf Comes Down”
First Line: One leaf comes down. The crew.
Accepted by: Blue Unicorn.
|
undated |
dc12k.4 | “Way I Do It" (two copies)
First Line: The best things we say, I.
Accepted by: Sam Houston Literary Review.
|
March 1, 1976 |
dc12k.5 | “After All These Years”
First Line: Each faint star out in the night.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
undated |
dc12k.6 | “Fanatic”
First Line: He molded clay while he talked.
Accepted by: Bachy.
|
undated |
dc12k.7 | “Girl Who Died, Who Lived" (two
copies)
First Line: Last night an old sound came by chance.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
February 1, 1961 |
dc12k.8 | “Correspondence with Nadja Press"
(thirteen items) |
undated |
dc12l: Put-together for Sometimes Like a Legend, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 9/Folder dc12l
Assembled in 1981.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc12l.1 | cover |
July 1, 1980 |
dc12l.2 | Contents page |
July 19, 1980 |
dc12l.3 | “Part 1: It Has a Certain
Flavor”
Section title.
|
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dc12l.4 | “Sub-urban”
First Line: In any town I must live near the rind.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
September 7, 1947 |
dc12l.5 | “Vine Maple”
First Line: There was a tree surprised by light.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
August 9, 1948 |
dc12l.6 | “Assay”
First Line: They found the big mine of honesty.
Accepted by: Pacific and Fellowship.
|
December 4, 1945 |
dc12l.7 | “Old Friends”
First Line: I knew that summer well.
Accepted by: Compass.
|
April 12, 1947 |
dc12l.8 | “Days for the World”
First Line: That the world have days.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 20, 1969 |
dc12l.9 | “Alive in the Mountains”
First Line: Alone, and then alone again, the summits.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
December 1, 1967 |
dc12l.10 | “Storm at the Coast”
First Line: What moves on, moves far.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
March 1, 1967 |
dc12l.11 | “Part 2: You Get Glimpses”
Section title.
|
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dc12l.12 | “Little Room”
First Line: When I woke up at the beach.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1969 |
dc12l.13 | “British Columbia”
First Line: After the border, it was trees all the way to.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
February 1, 1971 |
dc12l.14 | “Jefferson County”
First Line: A formal county like that.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
June 1, 1967 |
dc12l.15 | “Meeting Roethke”
First Line: I’d see him dance into the room.
Accepted by: Chrysalis.
|
March 1, 1962 |
dc12l.16 | “Viewing the Coast”
First Line: A tracker from Neptune.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1967 |
dc12l.17 | “Stadium High, Tacoma”
First Line: This building in front is Greek, copper.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc12l.18 | “At Port Townsend”
First Line: All night I sat up watching.
Accepted by: Unmuzzled Ox.
|
July 1, 1976 |
dc12l.19 | “Part 3: It’s a Quaint Place”
Section title.
|
|
dc12l.20 | “Heron in Residence”
First Line: Our high-shouldered patient.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc12l.21 | “Places and Punctuation: The
Coast”
First Line: Seaside-Rockaway, Tillamook-Astoria.
Accepted by: Oregon People Magazine.
|
December 1, 1974 |
dc12l.22 | “Camping with Jack”
First Line: So clear we slept outside the tent.
Accepted by: Jason.
|
October 1, 1960 |
dc12l.23 | “Mountain That Got Little”
First Line: Hidden far somewhere trembling with.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc12l.24 | “Limber Gulls Owning the Wind”
First Line: In my sleep they take place, each with.
Accepted by: Mill Mountain Review.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc12l.25 | “Day I Got the Good Idea”
First Line: Had the right amount of rain, wind pushing it.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1962 |
dc12l.26 | “Beaver People”
First Line: Beaver people are trying to figure out the good water.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
August 1, 1960 |
dc12l.27 | “Part Four: And Sometimes Like a
Legend”
Section title.
|
|
dc12l.28 | “Outreach”
First Line: In the barefoot dark without a cry.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
October 1, 1954 |
dc12l.29 | “On the Coast”
First Line: Rain drives flat at our shack on the coast.
Accepted by: Oregon Journal.
|
September 29, 1953 |
dc12l.30 | “Winter Orchard”
First Line: In the bereaved orchard.
Accepted by: Prism.
|
October 1, 1955 |
dc12l.31 | “Stillness Is the Right Wave”
First Line: At the shore we always choose.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
April 5, 1975 |
dc12l.32 | “Kinship”
First Line: In a wilderness at the end of a vine.
Accepted by: Special Libraries.
|
January 1, 1970 |
dc12l.33 | “At an Interval in [the] Talk”
First Line: An owl call - round, globed as the moon.
Accepted by: Dalmo’ma.
|
June 1, 1974 |
dc12l.34 | “Slants of Rain”
First Line: Some of the rain past the searchlight.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1973 |
dc12l.35 | “Part Five: Even Dark and
Strange”
Section title.
|
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dc12l.36 | “Storm Warning”
First Line: Something not the wind shakes along far.
Accepted by: Rough Weather.
|
August 22, 1947 |
dc12l.37 | “In a Northwest Museum”
First Line: This man - Tlingit? - filed his teeth to tear.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
August 1, 1957 |
dc12l.38 | “Letter Not Even to Deliver”
First Line: The world often has a quiet look.
Accepted by: Hawk & Whippoorwill.
|
January 1, 1960 |
dc12l.39 | “So Clear, So Cold”
First Line: At Cold Lake, wagon.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
October 1, 1971 |
dc12l.40 | “From Behind These Vines”
First Line: We thought if we swept those vines.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
September 1, 1967 |
dc12l.41 | “Ferns”
First Line: After the firestorms that end history.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc12l.42 | “Waiting at the Beach”
First Line: The sun tugs over the sky.
Accepted by: River Styx.
|
|
dc12l.43 | “Part 6: You Get a Taste for
It”
Section title.
|
|
dc12l.44 | “Quiet Day at the Beach”
First Line: Gulls hit the silence and come through.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc12l.45 | “Slow Land”
First Line: The sun gradually pulls a whole.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
October 1, 1973 |
dc12l.46 | “Snapshot”
First Line: A hand reaches over the edge of rock.
Accepted by: Colorado State Review.
|
February 1, 1967 |
dc12l.47 | “Little Sermon" (2 copies)
First Line: The butterfly, the bee, the hummingbird.
Accepted by: Bridge.
|
August 16, 1944 |
dc12l.48 | “Looking Out and Staying True”
First Line: The main thing meant this morning is.
Accepted by: Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and
Photography.
|
January 6, 1964 |
dc12l.49 | “Outside of Town”
First Line: Loud sparrows hidden.
Accepted by: Human Voice.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc12l.50 | “West of Here”
First Line: The road goes down. It stops at the sea.
Accepted by: Kansas City Star.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc12l.51 | Correspondence with Sam Hamill
12 pages
|
dc13: Put-together for Segues, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc13
Assembled in 1981.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc13.1 | “Hunger for Stories”
First Line: By now it’s not Japan or a bell.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc13.2 | “Things Not in the Story”
First Line: Most things are impossible, but I think.
Accepted by: Pequod.
|
July 1, 1979 |
dc13.3 | “Hunting What Is”
First Line: There are days when everything waits - you run.
Accepted by: Field.
|
undated |
dc13.4 | “Telling You Carefully”
First Line: Part of the time I want to tell you.
Accepted by: Field.
|
August 19, 1979 |
dc13.5 | “Serving with Gideon”
First Line: Now I remember: in our town the druggist.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc13.6 | “Losers”
First Line: You learn from losers. You yield back tough talk.
Accepted by: Field.
|
October 4, 1979 |
dc13.7 | “Meeting Big People”
First Line: We would sit down, after a visitor had.
Accepted by: Field.
|
November 1, 1979 |
dc13.8 | “Permission of the Snow”
First Line: The perfect snow that told your face which way.
Accepted by: Field.
|
November 24, 1979 |
dc13.9 | “Learning, Any TIme”
First Line: We were singing one day about justice.
Accepted by: Field.
|
January 28, 1980 |
dc13.10 | “Testing, Testing, Not Being
Lost”
First Line: Wherever you are you hear it, a hum.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
February 1, 1980 |
dc13.11 | “Dear Marvin”
First Line: Dear Marvin.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
May 1, 1980 |
dc13.12 | “Accepting What Comes”
First Line: In a mirror so deep it’s forever I see.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
June 4, 1980 |
dc13.13 | “Living Far Enough Away”
First Line: At the shop in my brain where everything happens - at the
grunsel.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
July 3, 1980 |
dc13.14 | “More Than Words Can Tell”
First Line: Don’t ask, “Are you afraid?”.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 15, 1980 |
dc13.15 | “Reading at American
University”
First Line: Start with a doorbuster, how to get in from.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
September 1, 1980 |
dc13.16 | “What to Say”
First Line: Sometimes you hear it from strangers, talkers.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
November 12, 1980 |
dc13.17 | “Before It Burned Over - a Sioux Grass
Chant”
First Line: World carpet, robe, every leaf.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
November 20, 1980 |
dc13.18 | “Just Some Names”
First Line: If it’s just “the weather” or “the season,” they.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
December 9, 1980 |
dc13.19 | “Nothing Special”
First Line: Someone was by the glass in the door. It was.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
December 31, 1980 |
dc13.20 | “It Still Happens Now”
First Line: You make me walk my town, its terrible.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
June 2, 1981 |
dc13.21 | “Key of C - an Interlude for
Marvin”
First Line: Sometime nothing has happened. We are home.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
June 9, 1981 |
dc13.22 | “For an OK Writer”
First Line: You make it happen - the world out there.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
June 30, 1981 |
dc14: Put-together for Listening Deep, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc14
Assembled in 1984.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc14.1 | Title page |
June 22, 1982 |
dc14.2 | “Prophets”
First Line: Some prophets decide not to tell. They go around.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
January 6, 1981 |
dc14.3 | “Textures”
First Line: The dwell of a sound for miles.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc14.4 | “Today, Tonight”
First Line: Today when silence came we heard.
Accepted by: Blue Unicorn.
|
June 1, 1975 |
dc14.5 | “Farther Than Stout Cortez”
First Line: Even far out in the air beyond the trees.
Accepted by: Hapa.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc14.6 | “Renegade”
First Line: My brother came home in darkness.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc14.7 | “Objector”
First Line: In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon.
Accepted by: Aloe.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc14.8 | “Heroes”
First Line: Here is the rabbit that ran through a field on fire.
Accepted by: MSS.
|
January 13, 1981 |
dc14.9 | “How to Regain Your Soul”
First Line: Come down Canyon Creek trail on a summer afternoon.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 7, 1981 |
dc14.10 | “One Leaf Comes Down”
First Line: One leaf comes down. The crew.
Accepted by: Blue Unicorn.
|
June 1, 1976 |
dc14.11 | “On an Un-Named Mountain”
First Line: You try to be sure while you stand.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1977 |
dc14.12 | “Into Summer Again”
First Line: One of the pieces of light.
Accepted by: Pacific Search.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc14.13 | “While We Are Waiting”
First Line: Under a bush in your yard, if I found it.
Accepted by: Berkeley Poetry Review.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc14.14 | “Passing an Old Farm”
First Line: They forget to improve old gardens, and.
Accepted by: Pacific Search.
|
May 1, 1977 |
dc14.15 | “Out in Pawnee Country" (three
versions)
First Line: A patient wind has finally uncovered.
Accepted by: Late Harvest.
|
August 1, 1974 |
dc14.16 | “On the Boat Coming In”
First Line: No wave but thuds this question: “When?”.
Accepted by: Dalmo’ma.
|
May 1, 1974 |
dc14.17 | “Things the Wind Says”
First Line: Everything still ought to move.
Accepted by: South Dakota Review.
|
April 1, 1980 |
dc14.18 | “Bells”
First Line: According to law, a bell had to sound.
Accepted by: Mid-South Writer.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc14.19 | “Optimism”
First Line: What you can make with a knife.
Accepted by: Cincinnati Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1980 |
dc14.20 | “August”
First Line: It comes up out of the ocean.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 17, 1981 |
dc14.21 | “1080”
First Line: Ten-Eighty,” they say it, when they call.
Accepted by: Clearwater.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc14.22 | “Big School”
First Line: Will you be afraid when miles of sagebrush.
Accepted by: Clearwater.
|
January 28, 1980 |
dc14.23 | “Listening Deep”
First Line: It came to me that a river is flowing.
Accepted by: Cumberland Poetry Review.
|
May 22, 1980 |
dc14.24 | correspondence with Penmaen Press and
galley proofs
6 items
|
dc15: Put-together for Stories and Storms and Strangers, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc15
Assembled in 1984.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc15.1 | cover |
March 1, 1984 |
dc15.2 | “Stereopticon”
First Line: This can happen. They can bring the leaves back.
Accepted by: American Poets in 1976.
|
May 30, 1974 |
dc15.3 | “Stopping by Frost”
First Line: Whose lines these were I thought I knew.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
December 1, 1973 |
dc15.4 | “Stories You Tell”
First Line: A clock falls on its face.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc15.5 | “Storm" [Haiku]
First Line: On the old highway.
Accepted by: Portland Review.
|
September 1, 1974 |
dc15.6 | “Storm in the Mountains”
First Line: Even God can’t take the lightning back.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
September 1, 1971 |
dc15.7 | “Story for a Winter Night”
First Line: Late one winter night in the North.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 14, 1971 |
dc15.8 | “Story of a Piebald Horse”
First Line: It put out its feet, trotted through.
Accepted by: Stone Drum.
|
May 1, 1971 |
dc15.9 | “Story That Hasn’t Happened”
First Line: Where the river spins, rock talks.
Accepted by: L’Espirit.
|
August 1, 1971 |
dc15.10 | “Story This Land Is Telling”
First Line: A chapter about volcanoes, and then .
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
January 1, 1975 |
dc15.11 | “Strange Face on the Sand”
First Line: Once upon a time our town owned a story.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
June 1, 1972 |
dc15.12 | “Stranger”
First Line: The place he wanted to tell about.
Accepted by: Stand.
|
November 1, 1967 |
dc15.13 | “That Day Again”
First Line: Some nights you hear wires taunting the wind.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
August 1, 1971 |
dc15.14 | “Today”
First Line: Beside my ear the bowstring says.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc15.15 | “Today Again”
First Line: The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere.
Accepted by: Poets On.
|
June 1, 1976 |
dc15.16 | “Together Again”
First Line: When I drive, every bridge is.
Accepted by: Field.
|
October 1, 1970 |
dc15.17 | “.38”
First Line: This metal has come to look at.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
December 1, 1971 |
dc15.18 | “They Carved an Animal”
First Line: In a cave somewhere they carved an animal.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
November 1, 1976 |
dc15.19 | “That Year”
First Line: The last year I was your friend, they fell.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
May 1, 1970 |
dc17: Put-together for Brother Wind, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc17
Assembled in 1986.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc17.1 | “Memo" (used as special holograph poem in
Brother Wind book)
First Line: To each plant in our yard.
Accepted by: Sandlapper.
|
May 1, 1976 |
dc17.2 | “Preface: Sniffing the Region”
First Line: Being tagged a regional artist....
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
April 1, 1980 |
dc17.3 | “Brother Wind”
First Line: Air this morning embraces you.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc17.4 | “Priorities at Friday Ranch”
First Line: All that juniper west of.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
April 14, 1976 |
dc17.5 | “Cheat Grass”
First Line: If you are reading this, please.
Accepted by: High Country News.
|
June 1, 1977 |
dc17.6 | “Out by Keith and Shirley’s”
First Line: Backdoor people, ones who borrow a wrench.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
April 1, 1978 |
dc17.7 | “Standing and Knowing”
First Line: Wherever the mountains put their white gloves on.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc17.8 | “Remembering Mountain Men”
First Line: I put my foot in cold water.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc17.9 | “About These Poems”
First Line: Of brass, though broken. See? - almost.
Accepted by: Field.
|
August 1, 1978 |
dc17.10 | “Good Citizens”
First Line: Rocks are usually in trouble, but.
Accepted by: Amicus.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc17.11 | “For Later”
First Line: When I put my foot on this cold road.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc17.12 | “Graydigger’s Home”
First Line: Paw marks near one burrow show Graydigger.
Accepted by: Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1977 |
dc17.13 | “Big Wilderness”
First Line: Not seeing mountains makes them wilder.
Accepted by: Tower.
|
September 1, 1978 |
dc17.14 | “Everything Twice”
First Line: One time a green forest one time.
Accepted by: Atlanta.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc17.15 | “It Takes a Long Time”
First Line: Wherever a bulldozer gouges into the earth.
Accepted by: Perception.
|
June 1, 1977 |
dc17.16 | “Face”
First Line: It’s just by chance, who.
Accepted by: Partisan Review.
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July 22, 1977 |
dc17.17 | “Out in the Garden”
First Line: Details, details, the mole says.
Accepted by: Sandlapper.
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September 1, 1969 |
dc17.18 | “One of the Many Dreams of
Childhood”
First Line: Floorboards of an old car. Shaking.
Accepted by: Blue Buildings.
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June 1, 1978 |
dc17.19 | “August Back Then”
First Line: A day was trees. One touched the other.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
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June 1, 1977 |
dc17.20 | “Walk in September”
First Line: Early snow falls through.
Accepted by: Wang Hui Ming.
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May 1, 1967 |
dc17.21 | “Hills (two copies)”
First Line: Half of each hill is underground. Moles.
Accepted by: Percpetions.
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December 1, 1976 |
dc17.22 | “Crossing the Campus with a New
Generation”
First Line: Practicing how to lose I have perfected.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
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June 26, 1977 |
dc17.23 | Computer copies of nine poems involved
in... |
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dc17.24 | correspondence with publisher, Donnell
Hunter
5 pages
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dc18: Put-together for An Oregon Message, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc18
Assembled in 1987.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc18.1 | “Falling into the Sky”
First Line: Day again - sunlight has found.
Accepted by: Forum.
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May 1, 1981 |
dc18.2 | “Saying Goodby to What
Happened”
First Line: I am saying that the years were just being themselves.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
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July 1, 1981 |
dc18.4 | “September, 1982”
First Line: Something from out there came for Princess Grace.
Accepted by: The Oregonian.
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September 1, 1982 |
dc18.5 | “Wearing Ear Protectors”
First Line: It’s all different now. After the loud world.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
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May 16, 1984 |
dc18.6 | cover |
undated |
dc18.7 | “Big Picture”
2 lists of poems, one folded page .
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dc18.8 | “Part 1: The Book About You”
section title.
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dc18.9 | “Keeping a Journal”
First Line: At night it was easy for me with my little candle.
Accepted by: America.
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March 9, 1985 |
dc18.10 | “First Grade”
First Line: In the play Amy didn’t want to be.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
December 1, 1982 |
dc18.11 | “Life, a Ritual”
First Line: My mother had a child, one dark.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
April 10, 1983 |
dc18.12 | “Surrounded by Mountains”
First Line: Digging potatoes east of Sapporo.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 16, 1984 |
dc18.13 | “Little Rooms”
First Line: I rock high in the oak - secure, big branches.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
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April 1, 1980 |
dc18.14 | “Big House”
First Line: She was a modern, you know.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
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January 1, 1984 |
dc18.15 | “Voice from the Past”
First Line: I never intended this face, believe me.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
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December 21, 1982 |
dc18.16 | “Confessions of an Individual”
First Line: I let history happen - sorry. When Muslims.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
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October 1, 1979 |
dc18.17 | “To Recite Every Day”
First Line: This bread is rye. Many places.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
August 1, 1980 |
dc18.18 | “Sleeping Toward Heaven”
First Line: I wish that I had been one of the Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus.
Accepted by: Brockport Writers' Forum.
|
September 9, 1981 |
dc18.19 | “For People with Problems about How to
Believe”
First Line: Say it’s early morning, coming awake.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1981 |
dc18.20 | “Next Time”
First Line: Next time what I’d do is look at.
Accepted by: New England Review.
|
August 1, 1982 |
dc18.21 | “Burning a Book”
First Line: Protecting each other, right in the center.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 21, 1984 |
dc18.22 | “Salt Creek”
First Line: It’s a place to go, far from the country.
Accepted by: Oregon East.
|
June 3, 1981 |
dc18.23 | “Book About You”
First Line: The book that tells about you slumps in the library.
Accepted by: Black Warrior Review.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc18.24 | “Thinking about Being Called Simple by a
Critic”
First Line: I wanted the plums, but I waited.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc18.25 | “Learning How to Lose" [Lipstick on a
Coffee Cup]
First Line: All your years learning how to live to win.
Accepted by: MSS.
|
|
dc18.26 | “Querencia”
First Line: Years and years go by in a high country.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
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March 1, 1983 |
dc18.27 | “Part 2: Serving with Gideon”
Section title.
|
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dc18.28 | “Serving with Gideon”
First Line: Now I remember: in our town the druggist.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
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September 1, 1979 |
dc18.29 | “Ground Zero”
First Line: A bomb photographed me on the stone.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
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December 1, 1982 |
dc18.30 | “Looking for Gold”
First Line: A flavor like wild honey begins.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
January 1, 1984 |
dc18.31 | “Stillborn”
First Line: Where a river touches an island.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
May 6, 1982 |
dc18.32 | “Chicory”
First Line: Till the great darkness gathers them in .
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
October 1, 1984 |
dc18.33 | “Say You Are Lonely”
First Line: More still than a star, one thought shines.
Accepted by: Sunstone.
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March 27, 1982 |
dc18.34 | “Scars”
First Line: They tell how it was, and how time.
Accepted by: New Letters.
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March 27, 1982 |
dc18.35 | “Honeysuckle”
First Line: Not yet old enough, still only a kid.
Accepted by: Indiana Review.
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December 19, 1979 |
dc18.36 | “School Play”
First Line: You were a princess, lost; I.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
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September 1, 1980 |
dc18.37 | “Ceremony: Doing the Needful”
First Line: Carrying you, a little model carefully dressed.
Accepted by: Field.
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September 1, 1981 |
dc18.38 | “Graffiti”
First Line: What’s on the wall will influence your life.
Accepted by: Sunstone.
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March 1, 1981 |
dc18.39 | “For the Unknown Enemy”
First Line: This monument is for the unknown.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
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January 1, 1984 |
dc18.40 | “Being an American”
First Line: Some network has bought history, all the rights.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
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December 1, 1979 |
dc18.41 | “What You See”
First Line: You see the Great at the Kennedy Center.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
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December 1, 1979 |
dc18.42 | “Our Time”
First Line: It came.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
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September 1, 1983 |
dc18.43 | “Over the North Jetty”
First Line: Geese and brant, their wingbeats.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
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May 2, 1984 |
dc18.44 | “On Earth”
First Line: Any sun that comes, even.
Accepted by: Literature and Belief.
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April 21, 1983 |
dc18.45 | “Walking with Your Eyes Shut”
First Line: Your ears receive a pletter of sound.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
April 1, 1981 |
dc18.46 | “Dream of Descartes”
First Line: When dawn comes along any morning it carries.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
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October 1, 1980 |
dc18.47 | “When You Hear This”
First Line: When you hear this I am twenty.
Accepted by: Quest.
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May 1, 1975 |
dc18.48 | “Waiting in Line”
First Line: You the very old, I have come.
Accepted by: Barnwood.
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June 1, 1980 |
dc18.49 | “Not Having Wings”
First Line: If I had a wing it might hurt.
Accepted by: Light Year.
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December 1, 1975 |
dc18.50 | “Afterward”
First Line: In the day I sheltered on the sunny side.
Accepted by: Cottonwood.
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March 1, 1984 |
dc18.51 | “Four Oak Leaves”
First Line: When I was green, everyone loved me. Bees.
Accepted by: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
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December 1, 1982 |
dc18.52 | “Oregon Message”
First Line: When we first moved here, pulled.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
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August 13, 1967 |
dc18.53 | “Why I Am Happy”
First Line: Now has come, an easy time. I let it.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc18.54 | Part 3: A Writer’s Fountain Pen
Talking
Section title.
|
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dc18.55 | “Bird Count”
First Line: Choose a day: whatever birds come.
Accepted by: Field.
|
November 3, 1981 |
dc18.56 | “Day at Home”
First Line: On the near pine rain hangs.
Accepted by: Miami Magazine.
|
March 21, 1975 |
dc18.57 | “Dean at Faculty Retreat”
First Line: They go by dragging their chains. I hook.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 1, 1976 |
dc18.58 | “Final Exam: American
Renaissance”
First Line: Fill in blanks: Your name is.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1962 |
dc18.59 | “Rodeo at Sisters, Oregon”
First Line: When the speaker stops we can hear.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc18.60 | “Simple Talk”
First Line: Spilling themselves in the sun bluebirds.
Accepted by: Cornell Review.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc18.61 | “Purifying the Language of the
Tribe”
First Line: Walking away means.
Accepted by: Charles Seluzicki.
|
June 1, 1984 |
dc18.62 | “Starting with Little Things”
First Line: Love the earth like a mole.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
September 1, 1973 |
dc18.63 | “Today”
First Line: Somebody today called me “old”.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc18.64 | “Ultimate Problem"s [Is There a Niebuhr in
the House?]
First Line: In the Aztec design God crowds.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
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November 1, 1959 |
dc18.65 | “Uncle Bill Visits”
First Line: Remember me, kids? Here:.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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January 1, 1967 |
dc18.66 | “Visiting”
First Line: The weather visits us. It has another.
Accepted by: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
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December 1, 1974 |
dc18.67 | “Volkswagen”
First Line: I heard that un-engine in front.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
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September 1, 1963 |
dc18.68 | “When I Met My Muse”
First Line: I glanced at her and took my glasses.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc18.69 | “Where the Saw Is”
First Line: It waits in its little room. You turn.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
June 1, 1973 |
dc18.70 | “Ghalib Decides to Be
Reticent”
First Line: There is a question I would like to ask.
Accepted by: Light Year.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc18.71 | “Writer’s Fountain Pen
Talking”
First Line: I gave out one day and left a woman.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
April 27, 1981 |
dc18.72 | “Stone, Paper, Scissors”
First Line: Stone.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 17, 1981 |
dc18.73 | “Sparkle Depends on Flaws in the
Diamond”
First Line: Wood that can learn is no good for a bow.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
October 22, 1981 |
dc18.74 | “Day Last Summer" [Morning in
June]
First Line: Cowbird,” someone said. I was.
Accepted by: Negative Capacity.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc18.75 | “Mr. or Mrs. Nobody”
First Line: Some days when you look out, the land.
Accepted by: Negative Capacity.
|
December 1, 1982 |
dc18.76 | “Ode to Garlic" (two drafts)
First Line: Sudden, it comes for you.
Accepted by: Garlic Festival.
|
January 11, 1982 |
dc18.77 | “Part 4: Saint Matthew and
All”
Section title.
|
|
dc18.78 | “Scripture”
First Line: In the dark book where words crowded together.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
September 1, 1982 |
dc18.79 | “Forget”
First Line: Forget the rain, being inside.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
December 1, 1982 |
dc18.80 | “Turn Over Your Hand”
First Line: Those lines on your palm, they can be read.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
February 1, 1985 |
dc18.81 | “Pilgrims”
First Line: They come to the door, usually carrying or leading.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
June 9, 1983 |
dc18.82 | “1932”
First Line: Nobody could come because ours was the house.
Accepted by: Mid-American Review.
|
February 1, 1981 |
dc18.83 | “1940”
First Line: It is August. Your father is walking you.
Accepted by: Southern Humanities Review.
|
July 1, 1983 |
dc18.84 | “Game and a Brother”
First Line: Afraid, but not really afraid, we heard.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
dc18.85 | “Brother”
First Line: Somebody came to the door that night.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
February 1, 1982 |
dc18.86 | “Madge”
First Line: Or you could do it, the speech I mean.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
January 28, 1982 |
dc18.87 | “Waiting Sometimes”
First Line: Inside your hands when you clasp them while waiting.
Accepted by: International Poetry Review.
|
October 1, 1981 |
dc18.88 | “Hearing the Song”
First Line: My father said, “Listen,” and that subtle song.
Accepted by: Coyote’s Journal.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc18.89 | “108 East Nineteenth”
First Line: Mother, the sweet peas have gushed out of.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
April 13, 1981 |
dc18.90 | “Mother’s Day”
First Line: Peg said “This one,” and we bought it.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc18.91 | “Getting Scared”
First Line: Tending our fire in the oil drum, we felt.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
March 1, 1981 |
dc18.92 | “Memorial for My Mother" (2
drafts)
First Line: For long my life left hers. It went.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
May 28, 1979 |
dc18.93 | “Land Between the Rivers”
First Line: It happened to be Thursday. No one was going.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
April 1, 1981 |
dc18.94 | “Our Neighborhood”
First Line: Sam’s Mother.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc18.95 | “How It Is with Family”
First Line: Let’s assume you have neglected to write.
Accepted by: Black Warrior Review.
|
August 1, 1977 |
dc18.96 | “When You Go Anywhere" [Verses for the
Wall by Your Bed/Identification] (two drafts)”
First Line: This passport your face (not you.
Accepted by: Rolling Stone anthology Wonders.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc18.97 | “By Tens”
First Line: In my twenties the days came with a war wind.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1984 |
dc18.98 | “Afraid of the Dust”
First Line: Afraid of the dust, closely peering.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc18.99 | “Good Room”
First Line: In this best room, only a kitchen.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
April 1, 1967 |
dc18.100 | “My Mother Said”
First Line: All day, deep in the mine.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc18.101 | “To the Children at the Family Album" (two
drafts)
First Line: Across Grandmother Ingersoll’s face.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
January 1, 1967 |
dc18.102 | “What If We Were Alone?”
First Line: What if there weren’t any stars?.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
July 1, 1974 |
dc18.103 | “Saint Matthew and All”
First Line: Lorene - we thought she’d come home. But.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1983 |
dc18.104 | “Part 5: The Big Picture”
Section title.
|
|
dc18.105 | “Run Before Dawn”
First Line: Most mornings I get away, slip out.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
January 1, 1983 |
dc18.106 | “Owls at the Shakespeare
Festival”
First Line: How do owls find each other.
Accepted by: Mss.
|
June 1, 1976 |
dc18.107 | “Loyalty”
First Line: Some people, they tire of their dog, they.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
December 4, 1981 |
dc18.108 | “Figuring Out How It Is”
First Line: How it tilts while you are thinking.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1982 |
dc18.109 | “Looking Up at Night”
First Line: It’s awful stillness the moon feels, how the earth.
Accepted by: Writers' Forum.
|
August 1, 1983 |
dc18.110 | “Dear Sky”
First Line: This note is to explain....
Accepted by: Brockport Review.
|
September 8, 1981 |
dc18.111 | “Barnum and Bailey”
First Line: And also besides, listen, in addition, there was.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
January 27, 1982 |
dc18.112 | “Lie Detector”
First Line: You said it beats like a fist, proclaiming.
Accepted by: Scape.
|
August 29, 1980 |
dc18.113 | “Deciding”
First Line: One mine the Indians worked had.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
May 6, 1981 |
dc18.114 | “Help from History”
First Line: Please help me know it happened.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
January 1, 1980 |
dc18.115 | “Austere Hope, Daily Faith”
First Line: Even a villain sleeps - atrocities.
Accepted by: Alembic Press, Roseliep Retrospective.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc18.116 | “By a River in Osage Country”
First Line: They called it “Neosho,” meaning.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
April 1, 1980 |
dc18.117 | “Wovoka in Nevada”
First Line: Holding his dream (buffalo all over.
Accepted by: Gramercy Review.
|
August 1, 1979 |
dc18.118 | “Arrival”
First Line: While the years were mine I walked the high country.
Accepted by: Palaemon Press.
|
September 1, 1982 |
dc18.119 | “Something I Was Thinking
About”
First Line: If anything ever happens to time again.
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
March 27, 1982 |
dc18.120 | “Publius Vergilius Maro (two
drafts)”
First Line: Toward the last, paled by the page he wrote.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
November 1, 1965 |
dc18.121 | “Report from an Unappointed
Committee”
First Line: The uncounted are counting.
Accepted by: Illiterati.
|
February 10, 1948 |
dc18.122 | “Santa’s Workshop”
First Line: The doll bodies glide past on little.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
October 1, 1974 |
dc18.123 | “Seasons in the Country”
First Line: When we unfasten the cabin door in.
Accepted by: Human Voice.
|
December 1, 1968 |
dc18.124 | “My Hands”
First Line: It is time for applause. My hands rest.
Accepted by: Long Pond Review.
|
December 1, 1979 |
dc18.125 | “Our Journey, a Story from the
Dust”
First Line: Every town came true. Every person.
Accepted by: Cornfield Review.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc18.126 | “Bush from Mongolia”
First Line: This bush with light green leaves.
Accepted by: Amicus Journal.
|
September 1, 1984 |
dc18.127 | “Fame”
First Line: My book fell in a river and rolled.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
September 6, 1983 |
dc18.128 | “Practice”
First Line: When you stop off at rehearsal you can stumble.
Accepted by: Oregon Arts Commission.
|
November 26, 1984 |
dc18.129 | “Maybe Alone on My Bike”
First Line: I listen, and the mountain lakes.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
December 1, 1963 |
dc22: Put-together for Fin, Feather, Fur, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 10/Folder dc22
Assembled in 1989.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc22.1 | “Roll Call”
First Line: Red Wolf came, and Passenger Pigeon.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
February 1, 1988 |
dc22.2 | “Our City”
First Line: Not just people.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
March 1, 1986 |
dc22.3 | “Some of the Ways”
First Line: Title for two-poem sequence broken up in FFF.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1980 |
dc22.4 | “Scenes of Rain in the
Mountains”
First Line: First, they show a lake, from right down.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1980 |
dc22.5 | “Last Things”
First Line: It is cold and the horses breathe white.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1980 |
dc22.6 | “Glance Down”
First Line: Where are the ants taking this field?.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
July 1, 1977 |
dc22.7 | “Abandoned Farm in the
Count[r]y”
First Line: None of them ever came back.
Accepted by: Hardscrabble.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc22.8 | “Accounting”
First Line: Little gray animals, and the birds.
Accepted by: Wittenberg Review.
|
September 1, 1977 |
dc22.9 | “For a City Child”
First Line: Out in the country some of the things that happen.
Accepted by: Stanzapress.
|
May 14, 1983 |
dc22.10 | “Bedtime Story”
First Line: When we animals lived in caves, our mothers.
Accepted by: Alaska Field and Game.
|
June 4, 1985 |
dc22.11 | “Tidepool”
First Line: It is the ocean at home.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
May 1, 1985 |
dc22.12 | “Moose Jaw”
First Line: Not knowing why a numb fish.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
December 1, 1979 |
dc22.13 | “Another Time”
First Line: Water one day sang in the ditch that came by.
Accepted by: Prism.
|
June 10, 1982 |
dc22.14 | “Experiments”
First Line: Part of the cost, we knew, was the pain.
Accepted by: Literary Olympians II.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc22.15 | “Lesson in Biology”
First Line: Moses my name, a box my home.
Accepted by: Morehead State Student paper, The Trail
Blazer.
|
October 1, 1988 |
dc22.16 | “Inheriting the Earth: Quail”
First Line: You are supposed to stay still. It won’t.
Accepted by: Quarterly Qest.
|
January 1, 1981 |
dc22.17 | “In the World”
First Line: Wild things and the unborn.
Accepted by: High Rock Review.
|
July 10, 1982 |
dc22.18 | “Redbird”
First Line: In the tress between them and the lake.
Accepted by: Tusitala.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc22.19 | “Losers”
First Line: Along the coast and all along those interior rivers.
Accepted by: Cottonwood.
|
January 4, 1983 |
dc22.20 | “Vocatus atque Non Vocatus”
First Line: Before our life, was there a world?.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 9, 1980 |
dc22.21 | “At Lascaux [Leceaux]”
First Line: It came into my mind that no one had painted.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
March 1, 1978 |
dc22.22 | “Waiting by the Sea”
First Line: This tidepool day you inhabit contains more than.
Accepted by: Albatross.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc22.23 | correspondence with Donnell
Hunter
22 pages including first submission (12 poems)
|
dc16: Put-together for Wyoming, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 11/Folder dc16
Assembled in 1985.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc16.1 | cover letter to Robert
McRoberts |
February 5, 1985 |
dc16.2 | Title page |
undated |
dc16.3 | “Accountability”
First Line: Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming.
|
undated |
dc16.4 | “Welcome, Hunters”
First Line: You dream in The Sunset. Blood flows from the pickup.
|
undated |
dc16.5 | “Out the South Road”
First Line: The sheep don’t know if it’s cold.
|
undated |
dc16.6 | “Staring at Souvenirs of the
West”
First Line: What if a buffalo eye, big.
|
undated |
dc16.7 | “By Cheryl’s Old Place”
First Line: Fleet as a bronco the road goes.
|
undated |
dc16.8 | “Against the Morning Light”
First Line: A north wind caught young cottonwoods.
|
undated |
dc16.9 | “Address to the Senior Class”
First Line: Coming down the hill into this town.
|
undated |
dc16.10 | “Seeing a Red Rock”
First Line: Over near Tensleep the highway comes down.
|
undated |
dc16.11 | “Gutters of Jackson: Cache Street
North”
First Line: Gum wrappers with nothing, Coors can.
|
undated |
dc16.12 | “Daily Shoot-Out for Tourists on the
Square in Jackson, Wyoming”
First Line: It is more serious now, the encounter.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
undated |
dc19: Put-together for You and Some Other Characters, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 11/Folder dc19
Assembled in 1987.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc19.1 | “Sayings for a Dedication
Page”
First Line: T.S. Eliot would sell no poem before its time.
Accepted by: Scarab.
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April 1, 1982 |
dc19.2 | “Identity" (two versions)
First Line: You are the slow arrival, the coming-to.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
October 1, 1954 |
dc19.3 | “Country Epitaph”
First Line: I am the man who plunged.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
October 1, 1965 |
dc19.4 | “Widow”
First Line: On the first day when light came through the curtain.
Accepted by: Crab Creek Review.
|
July 1, 1985 |
dc19.5 | “Character”
First Line: Mobs yell, “Death!” Death separates into.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
December 1, 1967 |
dc19.6 | “Who Is Sylvia?" (2 versions)
First Line: One day in the kitchen she grabbed.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
April 1, 1974 |
dc19.7 | “Someone, Somewhere”
First Line: Not you, standing with your host by a window talking .
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
December 11, 1981 |
dc19.8 | “Walking at the Zoo”
First Line: You move till a step seems.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
February 1, 1976 |
dc19.9 | “Coyote”
First Line: My left hind-.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc19.10 | “Some Words for Hamlet”
First Line: You filed your mother tongue, those quiddities.
Accepted by: Lemming.
|
February 1, 1972 |
dc19.11 | “Emily”
First Line: Monuments last too long” - her voice.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
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November 11, 1981 |
dc19.12 | “Someone Sleeping”
First Line: You rumple your pillow, an ear.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
October 1, 1976 |
dc19.13 | “At the Thirtieth Reunion”
First Line: That afternoon when it rained.
Accepted by: Pacific Review.
|
June 1, 1984 |
dc19.14 | “On the Poly Sci Bulletin
Board”
First Line: Wanted: for our study of truth.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
September 1, 1970 |
dc19.15 | “On a Picture of Ava Gardner at Davidson
University”
First Line: What stings the wrong sense charges.
Accepted by: Sumac.
|
December 1, 1970 |
dc19.16 | “Old Man by the Road”
First Line: You young around me.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc19.17 | “Meeting at Berkeley in the
40s”
First Line: Bourgeois” ricocheted often. I seem to remember.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 17, 1975 |
dc19.18 | “Kenny’s Office”
First Line: At noon under the eighteenth century.
Accepted by: Lewis and Clark Home Companion and Literary
Review.
|
November 1, 1973 |
dc19.19 | “Part of What the War Was
About”
First Line: Porcelain flowers and leaves wrapped.
Accepted by: Oregon East.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc19.20 | “Librarian at Fort Yukon”
First Line: When parents made moosehide moccasins.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
October 6, 1984 |
dc19.21 | “Book Review: Keats’s Poems”
First Line: It is not casual and meaningless, the way.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1974 |
dc19.22 | “Incident on a Road Near Sisters,
Oregon”
First Line: If you had been there, when the snake.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
October 1, 1976 |
dc19.23 | “For a Young Man at an
Airport”
First Line: It was a still day. Even the engines.
Accepted by: Preview.
|
February 1, 1967 |
dc19.24 | “For a Star in Silent
Pictures”
First Line: Shadows under trestles and the webs.
Accepted by: Chrysalis.
|
September 18, 1963 |
dc19.25 | “Ours”
First Line: We needed our man there - theirs.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
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July 1, 1965 |
dc19.26 | “Remembering”
First Line: Long afterwards we swang.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
dc19.27 | “One Man”
First Line: Dull Knife,” that sound, his name, surrounded.
Accepted by: Western Humanites Review.
|
July 27, 1972 |
dc19.28 | “Why I Am a Poet”
First Line: My father’s gravestone said, “I knew it was time.”.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1973 |
dc19.29 | “Fanatic”
First Line: He molded clay while he talked.
Accepted by: Bachy.
|
July 1, 1970 |
dc19.30 | “Poet in a Strange Land"
(epigraph)
First Line: To be present, seeing.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc19.31 | correspondence with Donnell Hunter, incl.
copy of MS
37 pages
|
|
dc19.32 | Copies of Barbara Stafford-Wilson’s ink
drawings
3 pages
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dc20: Put-together for Writing the World, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 11/Folder dc20
Assembled in 1988.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc20.1 | “Looking at a Pen”
First Line: By ponds in the country around home, before.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
June 1, 1975 |
dc20.2 | “Father, His Friend, and
Another”
First Line: Father’s friend Ray at the planing mill.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
March 1, 1964 |
dc20.3 | “Ardmore”
First Line: By eight it was dark, with a breeze. A dog.
Accepted by: Missouri Review.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc20.4 | “First Clarinet”
First Line: Later, too late to prevent what happened - after.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
November 28, 1983 |
dc20.5 | “Thought Makes All Things
Happen”
First Line: Thought has a sun inside it, its cause.
Accepted by: Phoebe.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc20.6 | “Last Love Song”
First Line: Some of us were laughing.
Accepted by: John Berryman Studies.
|
November 1, 1974 |
dc20.7 | “Map of Your Hand”
First Line: You look at the map of your hand, a province.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
September 1, 1976 |
dc20.8 | “At the Desk in the Morning”
First Line: Voices, while the hand writes, follow it.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1967 |
dc20.9 | “Some Things in My Fantasy
Life”
First Line: There is the broken phone.
Accepted by: Raccoon.
|
March 1, 1978 |
dc20.10 | “Words, Books, Stories”
First Line: Hagar” was one. The world.
Accepted by: Pax.
|
August 7, 1982 |
dc20.11 | “Writing the World”
First Line: In the stillness around me that no one can cross.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
July 1, 1975 |
dc20.12 | “Minimum Carol”
First Line: When Earth was a lonely place.
Accepted by: Three Sisters.
|
August 1, 1971 |
dc20.13 | “For My Young Friends Who Are
Afraid”
First Line: There is a country to cross you will.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
July 1, 1975 |
dc20.14 | “Here Is...”
First Line: Dawning toward each other, two.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
July 1, 1973 |
dc20.15 | Letter to Robert Bradley |
June 17, 1988 |
dc20.16 | Title page and contents page
2 items
|
June 17, 1988 |
dc20.17 | “At the Desk in the Morning”
First Line: Voices, while the hand writesm follow it.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
undated |
dc20.18 | “Song of Widows and Orphans”
First Line: Lincoln said, “Open hand”.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
undated |
dc20.19 | “Action”
First Line: The bolo’s a knife you grab at the awkward end.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
undated |
dc20.20 | “World When My Father Was
Young”
First Line: In his separate hat moving through.
Accepted by: Midwest Quarterly.
|
undated |
dc20.21 | “Map of Your Hand”
First Line: You look at the map of your hand, a province.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
undated |
dc20.22 | “By the Rules”
First Line: The still game, after the breathing.
Accepted by: Barataria.
|
undated |
dc20.23 | “Yeah, they hurt”
First Line: Sometimes the ends of my fingers.
Accepted by: Aim.
|
undated |
dc20.24 | “Looking at a Pen”
First Line: By ponds in the country round home, before.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
undated |
dc20.25 | “Last Love Song”
First Line: Some of us were laughing.
Accepted by: John Berryman Studies.
|
undated |
dc20.26 | “Hostler’s Son at School”
First Line: There was a candle that made the cave.
Accepted by: Andover Review.
|
undated |
dc20.27 | “Here Is...”
First Line: Dawning toward each other, two.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
undated |
dc20.28 | “Writing the World”
First Line: In the stillness around me that no one can cross.
Accepted by: New Review.
|
undated |
dc20.29 | “Minimum Carol”
First Line: When Earth was a lonly place.
Accepted by: Three Sisters.
|
undated |
dc20.30 | letter from Robert Bradley |
June 28, 1988 |
dc20.31 | letter from Robert Bradley |
July 25, 1988 |
dc20.32 | Letter to Robert Bradley |
August 2, 1988 |
dc20.33 | “Words, Books, Stories”
First Line: Hagar” was one. The world.
Accepted by: Pax.
|
undated |
dc20.34 | “Listening Around”
First Line: Any breeze to Willow.
Accepted by: .
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January 1, 1981 |
dc20.35 | “First Clarinet”
First Line: Later, too late to prevent what happened - after.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
undated |
dc20.36 | “Thought Makes All Things
Happen”
First Line: Thought has a sun inside it, its cause.
Accepted by: Phoebe.
|
undated |
dc20.37 | “Ardmore”
First Line: By eight it was dark, with a breeze. A dog.
Accepted by: Missouri Review.
|
undated |
dc20.38 | “Some Things in My Fantasy
Life”
First Line: Here is the broken phone.
Accepted by: Raccoon.
|
undated |
dc20.39 | “Last Service”
First Line: Good morning, Mr.Custer. May I.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
undated |
dc20.40 | letter from Robert Bradley |
August 13, 1988 |
dc20.41 | Letter to Robert Bradley |
September 3, 1988 |
dc21: Put-together for Annie-Over, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 11/Folder dc21
Assembled in 1988.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc21.1 | “At This Place”
First Line: It happens that night falls. It happens.
|
July 12, 1984 |
dc21.2 | “At Fort Worden: Calling Names" (9
drafts)
First Line: Lingering through Hood Canal these tranquil.
|
July 14, 1984 |
dc21.3 | “At Fort Worden: Calling
Names”
First Line: This gun emplacement where we live aims.
|
July 14, 1984 |
dc21.4 | “Station on the Way”
First Line: Scribbled in dust, faInt under grass.
|
July 16, 1984 |
dc21.5 | “How They Hold Their Heads”
First Line: Bob was the best, I remember. Somehow.
|
July 18, 1984 |
dc21.6 | “In the Cemetery beyond Eisenhower
Avenue”
First Line: For some it is different, their tears and anger.
|
July 20, 1984 |
dc21.7 | correspondence with Marvin Bell and
Donnell Hunter
incl. drafts of poems, 37 pages
|
|
dc21.8 | “Afterword”
First Line: Drifting Decisively.
|
January 12, 1986 |
dc33: Put-together for unpublished book, Sometimes I Breathe, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 11/Folder dc33
Assembled in 1992. Many of the poems were published posthumously in The Way It Is.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc33.1 | cover |
|
dc33.2 | cover sheet |
July 1, 1992 |
dc33.3 | “Part 1: Straight Talk”
Section title.
|
|
dc33.4 | “Sky”
First Line: I like it with nothing. Is it.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
March 1, 1991 |
dc33.5 | “One Night”
First Line: A voice within my shadow wakened me.
Accepted by: Canto.
|
February 1, 1979 |
dc33.6 | “Specimen”
First Line: It is 4 a.m. - perfectly quiet. Then the radio.
Accepted by: Independent.
|
|
dc33.7 | “Ceremony at the Coast”
First Line: Looking at a beach town in the late sun, I.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc33.8 | “Third Street”
First Line: They are watching me die. Six years old.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
|
dc33.9 | “Selina”
First Line: In a tiny pearl resting on velvet.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
December 4, 1990 |
dc33.10 | “What They Taught Me in
Soledad”
First Line: You have to take what the court says.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
April 24, 1990 |
dc33.11 | “Gaea" (2 versions)
First Line: Often, while the barn braces itself.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
March 1, 1991 |
dc33.12 | “Waiting for It”
First Line: The way sunset leaned through town.
Accepted by: Goshen College.
|
May 29, 1989 |
dc33.13 | “On Standby”
First Line: I caught my step this year, opened.
Accepted by: Light.
|
|
dc33.14 | “Something That Happens Right
Now”
First Line: I haven’t told this before....
Accepted by: Left Bank.
|
May 1, 1992 |
dc33.15 | “Clash”
First Line: The butcher knife was there.
Accepted by: Fair.
|
June 1, 1956 |
dc33.16 | “How It Goes”
First Line: It happens behind my eyes, this kingdom.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
|
dc33.17 | “Not in the Headlines”
First Line: It’s not the kind of thing that ought to happen; so.
Accepted by: New Myths.
|
June 1, 1989 |
dc33.18 | “Part 2: It’s a Cold World,
But...”
Section title.
|
|
dc33.19 | “Tragedy”
First Line: It happens. You knew it could.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
June 5, 1990 |
dc33.20 | “Meeting an Old Friend in the
Supermarket”
First Line: When you’re old you dance different; and after.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
January 16, 1991 |
dc33.21 | “It Gets Deep”
First Line: A big ship goes down. There on the bottom.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
|
dc33.22 | “Why We Willows Bend”
First Line: Pretty soon, after the moon, a million frogs.
Accepted by: Windfall.
|
October 17, 1989 |
dc33.23 | “Right to Die”
First Line: God takes care of it for.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
July 15, 1990 |
dc33.24 | “When We Looked Back”
First Line: The most present of all the watchers where we camped.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
|
dc33.25 | “Toward the End”
First Line: They will give you a paperweight.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
July 16, 1990 |
dc33.26 | “Whispered in Winter”
First Line: Snow falls. The fields begin again.
Accepted by: New Myths.
|
June 1, 1990 |
dc33.27 | “At the Edge”
First Line: A thought so fine may be.
Accepted by: Painted Hills Review.
|
June 1, 1986 |
dc33.28 | “Family Album”
First Line: Mostly it worked, the forsaking farm.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
September 1, 1987 |
dc33.29 | “Consolation”
First Line: In this dream it isn’t going to get.
Accepted by: American Literary Review.
|
November 18, 1991 |
dc33.30 | “In Any Country”
First Line: Someone swims near in this restless water.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
May 1, 1987 |
dc33.31 | “Oldtimers”
First Line: Sometimes, in form of a dog, you see.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 1, 1992 |
dc33.32 | “Slide Show”
First Line: Choose a day. Bring it up in the big lens.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
February 8, 1990 |
dc33.33 | “Walking in the Morning”
First Line: We walk on the secret earth. Our look.
Accepted by: Cream City Review.
|
February 1, 1986 |
dc33.34 | “RSVP”
First Line: Ice melts in your glass; then.
Accepted by: Onthebus.
|
November 1, 1991 |
dc33.35 | “Old Glory”
First Line: No flag touched ours this year.
Accepted by: Windfall and After the Storm.
|
August 5, 1991 |
dc33.36 | “Part 3: Quirks”
section title.
|
|
dc33.37 | “Explaining the Big One”
First Line: Remember that leader with the funny mustache?.
Accepted by: Chadakoin Review.
|
November 1, 1989 |
dc33.38 | “Way I Do It”
First Line: To think, I hold my head and roll it.
Accepted by: Light.
|
March 3, 1992 |
dc33.39 | “Annals of tai chi: Push
Hands”
First Line: In this long routine “Push Hands”.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 23, 1991 |
dc33.40 | “Sure You Do”
First Line: Remember the person you thought you were? That summer.
Accepted by: Motes.
|
July 18, 1991 |
dc33.41 | “Sympathy”
First Line: Nobody could sing like Robin.
Accepted by: Light.
|
|
dc33.42 | “Magic Mountain”
First Line: A book opens. People come out, bend.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 20, 1991 |
dc33.43 | “Getting Going”
First Line: My hand slides hangers around looking for.
Accepted by: Light.
|
March 1, 1992 |
dc33.44 | “Living Statues”
First Line: By the rules you stop in that pose.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
August 31, 1991 |
dc33.45 | “Worldly Considerations”
First Line: One worm said to another worm, “What kind.
Accepted by: Light.
|
January 22, 1992 |
dc33.46 | “What You Need”
First Line: You need some sky, some trees, a.
Accepted by: Light.
|
July 1, 1980 |
dc33.47 | “Real Myths”
First Line: Bears walk a myth, like us. Bears.
Accepted by: Licking River Review.
|
|
dc33.48 | “Collage”
First Line: Big purple sky, tree cut out.
Accepted by: Hunkering (Walter Hamady).
|
November 15, 1990 |
dc33.49 | “Put These in Your Pipe”
First Line: In a crash my head hit the pavement.
Accepted by: Light.
|
March 18, 1992 |
dc33.50 | “From Tombstones Back Home”
First Line: God said come in. I came.
Accepted by: Light.
|
March 1, 1992 |
dc33.51 | “On the Bookrack at Corner
Drugs”
First Line: Second Chance at Love leans toward.
Accepted by: Field.
|
June 1, 1989 |
dc33.52 | “Excursion”
First Line: Plunging over Niagara you hold.
Accepted by: Artful Dodge.
|
September 4, 1989 |
dc33.53 | “Part 4: Left for the Back
Pages”
section title.
|
|
dc33.54 | “Left for the Back Pages”
First Line: Here in the back pages hide the little.
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 1, 1992 |
dc33.55 | “Reminders”
First Line: Before dawn, across thew whole road.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 29, 1990 |
dc33.56 | “Choosing a Dog”
First Line: It’s love,” they say. You touch.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
June 12, 1990 |
dc33.57 | “Owning a Pearl" (2 versions)
First Line: You lift it between thumb and finger and roll.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
November 27, 1988 |
dc33.58 | “On the Quiet”
First Line: The way mushrooms arrive, it is dark.
Accepted by: Field.
|
February 1, 1988 |
dc33.59 | “Checking Out”
First Line: You can walk up the drive and .
Accepted by: Onthebus.
|
March 2, 1984 |
dc33.60 | “Authority of the Text”
First Line: Sometimes after it’s over.
Accepted by: Rhetoric Review.
|
August 5, 1990 |
dc33.61 | “Identities”
First Line: If a life could own another life.
Accepted by: Sequoia.
|
August 8, 1989 |
dc33.62 | “Assuming Control”
First Line: Sometimes I breathe and.
Accepted by: Orbis.
|
July 1, 1991 |
dc33.63 | “Where Did These Poems Come
From?”
First Line: Many writers, I think, try to write.
|
February 20, 1992 |
dc23: Put-together for A Scripture of Leaves, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 12/Folder dc23
Assembled in 1989.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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dc23.1 | “Part1: Listening" [Beginning]
Section title.
|
April 1, 1989 |
dc23.2 | “A Ritual to Read to Each
Other”
locating note for poem.
|
September 21, 1987 |
dc23.2 | “To You Around Me”
First Line: The ways I follow go down by the river.
Accepted by: Nightsun.
|
July 1, 1982 |
dc23.3 | “Offering”
First Line: Had you noticed - a shadow.
|
|
dc23.4 | “Hearing the Tide”
First Line: Many tomorrows ago, when the world.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
May 1, 1985 |
dc23.5 | “I Have a Witness”
First Line: Among the stars one light shone below.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
November 1, 1986 |
dc23.6 | “Invocation”
First Line: Where the birds are singing, for an hour.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
March 1, 1986 |
dc23.7 | “Preservation”
First Line: In that new country mountains won’t have a name.
Accepted by: Three Rivers.
|
November 1, 1986 |
dc23.8 | “Assay”
First Line: They found the big mine of honesty.
|
|
dc23.9 | “Bowing”
First Line: Before our time, before years that said no.
Accepted by: Caliban.
|
May 1, 1986 |
dc23.10 | “Time Let Me Learn”
First Line: On Sunday no storms came. Bees.
Accepted by: Balcones.
|
December 1, 1986 |
dc23.11 | “Part 2: [Back Then]”
Section title.
|
|
dc23.12 | “Six Years Old”
First Line: One time I am making shadows.
Accepted by: Tower.
|
August 1, 1978 |
dc23.13 | “Out Camping”
First Line: Today comes walking over the water.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc23.14 | “Lessons in the World”
First Line: At the school where spiders learn.
Accepted by: Rolling Stone.
|
May 1, 1978 |
dc23.15 | “Lessons at Grandpa’s Knee”
First Line: Children, around us the Twentieth Century is happening.
Accepted by: Five AM.
|
December 1, 1986 |
dc23.16 | “Incident”
First Line: One summer evening in the world, the air.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
February 1, 1982 |
dc23.17 | “For Someone Who Said Boo to
Me”
First Line: Now the good times come:if you can get scared enough.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
October 29, 1981 |
dc23.18 | “Coming Back”
First Line: Near your face a breath, your dog: “It’s day.”.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
August 23, 1986 |
dc23.19 | “Being Sorry”
First Line: When I was a kid I wanted to drop.
Accepted by: Greenfield Review.
|
July 1, 1977 |
dc23.20 | “Today”
First Line: The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere.
|
|
dc23.21 | “Distant Friend”
First Line: We never visit now, or call or write. Neither.
Accepted by: Kentucky Poetry Review.
|
January 19, 1982 |
dc23.22 | “Weekly Schedule”
First Line: Monday - Liberties Day.
Accepted by: Oregon English.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc23.23 | “Part 3: [Family]”
Section title.
|
|
dc23.24 | “Listening”
note on poem.
|
|
dc23.25 | “In the Old House”
First Line: Inside our Victrola a tin voice, faint.
Accepted by: Cottonwood.
|
August 1, 1980 |
dc23.26 | “Gleam”
First Line: At work in the garden my mother and I.
Accepted by: Panoply.
|
March 10, 1988 |
dc23.27 | “Birthright" (3 drafts)
First Line: No other heart has found the beat of mine.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
September 1, 1975 |
dc23.28 | “Aunt Mabel”
note on poem.
|
|
dc23.29 | “Way It Was Then”
First Line: Aunt Mabel used to say.
Accepted by: Late Harvest.
|
August 9, 1956 |
dc23.30 | “At Summer Camp”
First Line: Someone is leaving - tears.
Accepted by: Quartz Mountain.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc23.31 | “Certain Bend”
First Line: A certain bend in the road, swayed willows.
Accepted by: Missouri Review.
|
July 25, 1977 |
dc23.32 | “Part 4: [Church-Going]”
Section title.
|
|
dc23.33 | “Conviction”
First Line: It is not by light, the way we find.
Accepted by: Religion & Intellectual Life.
|
June 25, 1987 |
dc23.34 | “Saying a Big Word”
First Line: If I said “religion” or “music” you might believe.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
November 1, 1977 |
dc23.35 | “Sometimes”
First Line: It could be you move through a crowd and your arm.
Accepted by: Memphis State Review.
|
December 1, 1985 |
dc23.36 | “Why It Is Dark in Church”
First Line: Every spring a call from the woods.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
January 1, 1982 |
dc23.37 | “Long Way Short of Damascus”
First Line: Along Main Street, avoiding what trouble.
Accepted by: Other Side.
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April 21, 1986 |
dc23.38 | “Living in the Spirit”
First Line: Some of each life is lived in italics: it is.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
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January 1, 1983 |
dc23.39 | “Lighting a Candle”
First Line: A soul, my mother said, will drink.
Accepted by: Coe Review.
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June 1, 1979 |
dc23.40 | “Childish Things”
First Line: When they light the candles a little propellor.
Accepted by: World Order.
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December 1, 1982 |
dc23.41 | “Center”
First Line: Whenever you breathe God comes in.
Accepted by: Cottonwood.
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October 1, 1982 |
dc23.42 | “Waiting for Vesuvius”
First Line: Cold people, proud people.
Accepted by: Other Side.
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June 1, 1987 |
dc23.43 | “Part 5: [Social Action]”
section title.
|
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dc23.44 | “Noticing”
First Line: Often a crumb on my plate at the last.
Accepted by: Poetry.
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February 20, 1985 |
dc23.45 | “Wrong Number”
First Line: The call is for you. Someone at the end of a country.
Accepted by: Negative Capcity.
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March 9, 1985 |
dc23.46 | “On a Statue Not in the Park
Blocks”
First Line: Just because it isn’t here, people.
Accepted by: Wilmington Review.
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March 1, 1986 |
dc23.47 | “Being Tough”
First Line: Just because my hand struck hard.
Accepted by: Poetry Review.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc23.48 | “Small Claims”
First Line: All over town the court of the people.
Accepted by: Allied Arts.
|
December 1, 1980 |
dc23.49 | “Listening at Little Lake
Elkhart”
First Line: What signal brought us, leaving our work, our homes.
Accepted by: Crab Creek Review.
|
June 1, 1988 |
dc23.50 | “Living Here”
First Line: In Babylon, where I live now, revenge.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 1, 1986 |
dc23.51 | “Preserving the Present”
First Line: Carefully left as it is, our town demonstrates.
Accepted by: Cream City Review.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc23.52 | “Globescope" [For a Meeting of Concerned
Citizens] (2 drafts)
First Line: Grass is our flag. It whispers “Asia.
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dc23.53 | “Part 6: [Ending]”
section title.
|
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dc23.54 | “Jordan Valley”
First Line: On the farm a long slow wind begins to wander.
Accepted by: Tailwind.
|
December 1, 1984 |
dc23.55 | “Where Is Tomorrow?”
First Line: There is an island that no one.
Accepted by: Chaminade Literary Review.
|
May 19, 1988 |
dc23.56 | “At a Small College”
First Line: Words jut forward out of the stone.
Accepted by: Laurel Review.
|
October 13, 1986 |
dc23.57 | “You Can Do It”
First Line: Pick up the phone any day.
Accepted by: Cow Creek Review.
|
February 1, 1986 |
dc23.58 | “West of Here”
note on poem.
|
|
dc23.59 | “No One Knows What They Mean”
First Line: Every evening, dim as a low gray mist.
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December 30, 1984 |
dc23.60 | “Looking at You”
First Line: Over your shoulder I see it there.
Accepted by: Coe Review.
|
September 1, 1979 |
dc23.61 | “Late, Late”
First Line: That touch when rain.
Accepted by: Crosscurrents.
|
January 8, 1987 |
dc23.62 | “Centering”
First Line: There have been times hungry for the sky.
Accepted by: Agenda.
|
April 1, 1973 |
dc23.63 | “Contributor’s Note”
First Line: My tribe, for better or worse, is America.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
June 1, 1978 |
dc23.64 | “Reading the Big Weather”
First Line: Mornings we see our breath. Weeds.
Accepted by: Washington State University magazine.
|
September 15, 1982 |
dc23.65 | “Scripture of Leaves”
First Line: Correspondence with Brethren Press, including submitted
texts.
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dc24: Put-together for How To Hold Your Arms When It Rains, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 12/Folder dc24
Assembled in 1990.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc24.1 | Original title page: A Dawn That’s
Forever |
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dc24.2 | “Gift”
First Line: Time wants to show you a different country. It’s the one.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
July 13, 1987 |
dc24.3 | “Awareness”
First Line: Of a summer day, of what moves.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
August 1, 1987 |
dc24.4 | “In the Backyard”
First Line: Something beyond us bends over town.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
July 1, 1987 |
dc24.5 | “Forestry”
First Line: Old cedars, when the storms come.
Accepted by: Amicus.
|
April 1, 1986 |
dc24.6 | “Snow on the Ground" (2
drafts)
First Line: Whispering our years for the glacier.
|
March 9, 1985 |
dc24.7 | “Twelfth Birthday”
First Line: They never found what slowly descended, silently.
Accepted by: Three Rivers.
|
November 1, 1986 |
dc24.8 | “One Summer”
First Line: Back then in the old days I was.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
June 1, 1986 |
dc24.9 | “Tracks in the Sand" [Read My Lips, Forget
My Name]
First Line: For anyone, I am a substitute.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
September 22, 1985 |
dc24.10 | “Atwater Kent”
First Line: Late nights the world flooded our dark house.
|
May 30, 1987 |
dc24.11 | “Dropout”
First Line: Grundy and Hoagland and all the rest who ganged.
Accepted by: Negative Capacity.
|
July 1, 1981 |
dc24.12 | “Some Remarks When Richard Hugo
Came”
First Line: Some war, I bomb their towns from five.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
July 18, 1972 |
dc24.13 | “Reading the Fine Print”
First Line: Paths you follow disappear.
Accepted by: Memphis State Review.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc24.14 | “Wind from a Wing”
First Line: Something outside my window in the dark.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc24.15 | “Tremolo”
First Line: The figure with your name is led nodding.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc24.16 | “In Hurricane Canyon”
First Line: After we talked, after the moon.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
May 1, 1968 |
dc24.17 | “Ways to Say Wind”
First Line: Moves in the woods without.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
October 24, 1975 |
dc24.18 | “Turning Points”
First Line: Leafing through calendar pages you read.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
November 1, 1986 |
dc24.19 | “Pacemaker”
First Line: Our slow breath goes out and returns.
Accepted by: .
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June 1, 1987 |
dc24.20 | “History of Our Land”
[Hokkaido]
First Line: In the old times here the hills moved.
Accepted by: Alaska Fish and Game.
|
September 1, 1984 |
dc24.21 | “Last Day”
First Line: Finally rain gives the blessing. It anoints.
|
July 1, 1987 |
dc24.22 | “Being Sure”
First Line: On a still day the sun is mellowing westward.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc24.23 | “You, Reader”
First Line: Any night you can lie awake and line up with the north
star.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc25: Put-together for The Long Sigh the Wind Makes, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 12/Folder dc25
Assembled in 1991.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc25.1 | Original title: Home State |
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dc25.2 | Part 1: The Long Sigh the Wind Makes [So
Big a Cave]”
Section title.
|
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dc25.3 | “Want List”
First Line: Bring me the Cascades. Bring that bend.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
September 4, 1989 |
dc25.4 | “Night in Oregon”
First Line: Pines embraced by scarves of snow.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc25.5 | “Old Growth”
First Line: They never found the grove. But.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
August 1, 1989 |
dc25.6 | “Everyone Out Here Knows”
First Line: Flowers jump from the tracks of Big Foot.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc25.7 | “Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" (2
versions)
First Line: Every wave proclaims, “I’m permanent.
Accepted by: Weber Studies.
|
July 17, 1989 |
dc25.8 | “Celebrating Portland”
First Line: Some evenings from clouds west of town.
Accepted by: Downtowner.
|
January 20, 1978 |
dc25.9 | “Why the Sun Comes Up”
First Line: To be ready again if they find an owl.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
August 15, 1990 |
dc25.10 | “Over the Mountains”
First Line: Maybe someone stumbles across that child.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
December 1, 1989 |
dc25.11 | “How It Was, and Is”
First Line: At Cape Disappointment the trees lean inland.
Accepted by: Folio.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc25.12 | “You Night Men”
First Line: You night men, striking your fires in the bush.
Accepted by: Fiddlehead.
|
October 7, 1950 |
dc25.13 | “Places in Oregon”
First Line: Once near Clarno when winter closed in, an owl.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
January 1, 1983 |
dc25.14 | “Visit to Antelope”
First Line: Smoke is ascending straight and swirling.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
December 1, 1982 |
dc25.15 | “What Happens When You Get
Lost”
First Line: Out in the mountains nobody gives you anything.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
May 1, 1986 |
dc25.16 | “Among the Junipers”
First Line: Without regard for the rest of the country, this area.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc25.17 | “Inscription in the Cave at Fort
Rock”
First Line: Not because of storms, nor in any.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
November 17, 1986 |
dc25.18 | Part 2: An Inner Wilderness
Section title.
|
|
dc25.19 | “Seeing an Old Snapshot”
First Line: We will be different people when.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
December 1, 1981 |
dc25.20 | “I Have a Witness”
note on poem.
|
March 10, 1991 |
dc25.21 | “Considering My Face in an
Alley”
First Line: Their eyes are not the same, one.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
November 14, 1981 |
dc25.22 | “That Day”
First Line: That day we decided what word to say.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
June 4, 1985 |
dc25.23 | “Centering”
First Line: This is only today. We can.
|
|
dc25.24 | “Shape of an Oak”
First Line: In the open an oak makes no mistakes.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
December 1, 1986 |
dc25.25 | “Waiting at the Beach”
First Line: The sun tugs over the sky.
Accepted by: River Styx.
|
August 1, 1976 |
dc25.26 | “Darker, Brighter, Farther”
First Line: When the tree grows, and the limbs.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc25.27 | “Getting Here”
First Line: Briars caught in my coat.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
December 30, 1984 |
dc25.28 | “Near Dawn Some Time”
First Line: After I’m gone.
Accepted by: Greenfield Review.
|
February 9, 1978 |
dc25.29 | “Appearances”
First Line: Never ambitious enough, we climbed only.
Accepted by: Pacific Review.
|
January 1, 1984 |
dc25.30 | “This Is for Everyone”
note on poem.
|
|
dc25.30 | “Secret”
First Line: Where the tongue lives, it almost.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
December 3, 1990 |
dc25.31 | “Invocation”
note on poem.
|
|
dc25.32 | “Clowns at the Fair”
First Line: They wind one up. It dances, bows.
Accepted by: Blue Buildings.
|
February 5, 1978 |
dc25.33 | “Air Will Forget You”
First Line: When you come along no one is around. It is dawn.
Accepted by: Three Rivers.
|
October 1, 1975 |
dc25.34 | “Surviving”
First Line: A swimmer avoids a wave.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
December 1, 1978 |
dc25.35 | “Every Morning All Over Again”
First Line: Only the world guides me.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
January 1, 1984 |
dc25.36 | “Whatever Comes”
First Line: In the fall, rain of the happy tears returns.
Accepted by: High Country News.
|
October 1, 1979 |
dc25.37 | “Romance”
note on poem.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
|
dc25.38 | “Monument for a Wrinkle in the Pavement
Near Strong Hall”
First Line: The years 1914-1986 - in case these numbers.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
October 15, 1986 |
dc25.39 | “Faux Pas”
note on poem.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
|
dc25.40 | “Questioning the Residents Who Foiled an
Attempted Robbery”
First Line: Gun had no comment to make.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
July 1, 1983 |
dc26: Put-together for Passwords, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 12/Folder dc26
Assembled in 1991.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc26.1 | cover |
February 1, 1990 |
dc26.2 | contents page |
undated |
dc26.3 | “Dedications, Pledges,
Commitments”
First Line: For the past.
|
undated |
dc26.4 | “Passwords: A Program of Poems" (3
drafts)
First Line: Might people stumble and wander.
Accepted by: Sea Pen Press.
|
October 1, 1958 |
dc26.5 | “Part 1: Mileposts”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc26.6 | “Story Time”
First Line: Tell that one about Catherine.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc26.7 | “Way I Write”
First Line: In the mornings I lie partly propped up.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
August 1, 1989 |
dc26.8 | “Reading with Little Sister: a
Recollection”
First Line: The stars have died overhead in their great cold.
Accepted by: Mss..
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc26.9 | “Birthdays”
First Line: A birthday is when you might not have been born.
Accepted by: Crosscurrents.
|
December 1, 1986 |
dc26.10 | “Day Millicent Found the
World”
First Line: Every morning Millicent ventured farther.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 1, 1986 |
dc26.11 | “Some Things the World Gave”
First Line: Times in the morning early.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
October 4, 1985 |
dc26.12 | “Local Events”
First Line: A mouth said a bad word. A foot.
Accepted by: Caliban.
|
May 27, 1985 |
dc26.13 | “News Every Day”
First Line: Birds don’t say it just once. If they like it.
Accepted by: Andover Review.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc26.14 | “Faux Pas”
First Line: Waiting seems to be best. Your remark might.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
July 1, 1984 |
dc26.15 | “Afternoon in the Stacks”
First Line: Closing the book, I find I have left my head.
Accepted by: Fort Valley Journal.
|
May 1, 1987 |
dc26.16 | “Origin of Country”
First Line: A child came out on to the porch. It was.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc26.17 | “Paso por Aqui”
First Line: Comanches tell how the buffalo.
Accepted by: Sidewinder.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc26.18 | “Old Blue”
First Line: Some day I’ll crank up that Corvette, let it.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
June 1, 1984 |
dc26.19 | “Overheard Through an Airduct in the
Reference Library”
First Line: These cards I sort, I sort by color.
Accepted by: Innisfree.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc26.20 | “Archival Print”
First Line: God snaps your picture - don’t look away.
Accepted by: Field.
|
May 4, 1988 |
dc26.21 | “Part 2: The Big Room Where the Plain
World Lives”
section title.
|
undated |
dc26.22 | “At the Aesthetics Meeting”
First Line: We invented shape after shape.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
January 21, 1962 |
dc26.23 | “Trouble with Reading”
First Line: When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 1, 1987 |
dc26.24 | “Romance”
First Line: A woman down our street went away and became.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
November 16, 1986 |
dc26.25 | “Dream of Now”
First Line: When you wake to the dream of now.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
October 1, 1977 |
dc26.26 | “Atavism”
First Line: Sometimes in the open you look up.
Accepted by: Long Pond Review.
|
June 1, 1981 |
dc26.27 | “Trying to Tell It”
First Line: The old have a secret.
Accepted by: Willamette Journal.
|
January 1, 1988 |
dc26.28 | “Daydreams”
First Line: In my dream of the city, I stride with commuters. We
carry.
Accepted by: Poetry Kanto.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc26.29 | “Daydreams" (1st version)
First Line: In my dream of the city, I stride with commuters. We
carry.
Accepted by: Poetry Kanto.
|
June 1, 1979 |
dc26.30 | “Summer We Didn’t Die”
First Line: That year, that summer, that vacation.
Accepted by: Negative Capacity.
|
July 1, 1985 |
dc26.31 | “Remarks on My Character”
First Line: Waving a flag I retreat a long way beyond.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
September 27, 1988 |
dc26.32 | “You Don’t Know the End”
First Line: Even as you are dying a part of the world.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
December 9, 1981 |
dc26.33 | “Different Things”
First Line: Steel hardly knows what a hint is, but for thistledown.
Accepted by: Clockwatch Review.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc26.34 | “My Name Is Tillie Olsen”
First Line: I live by the washing machine. My husband comes home.
Accepted by: Occident.
|
November 18, 1985 |
dc26.35 | “Key to an Old Farmhouse”
First Line: One of the raindrops going by.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc26.36 | “Waiting for God”
First Line: This morning I breathed in. It had rained.
Accepted by: Artful Dodge.
|
August 24, 1988 |
dc26.37 | “Part 3: Compartments of
Truth”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc26.38 | “Light by the Barn”
First Line: The light by the barn that shines all night.
Accepted by: Farmer’s Market.
|
May 1, 1985 |
dc26.39 | “Five A.M.”
First Line: Still dark, the early morning breathes.
Accepted by: America.
|
December 30, 1984 |
dc26.40 | “Cover Up”
First Line: One thing, don’t worry about the mountains.
Accepted by: Artful Dodge.
|
October 26, 1989 |
dc26.41 | “Climbing Along the River" [cf. Walking
the West]
First Line: Willows never forget how it feels.
Accepted by: Limberlost.
|
May 1, 1987 |
dc26.42 | “Ground Zero”
First Line: While we slept.
Accepted by: Field.
|
June 1, 1982 |
dc26.43 | “Gospel Is Whatever Happens”
First Line: When we say “Breath”.
Accepted by: Stony Lonesome.
|
August 27, 1972 |
dc26.44 | “Eloquent Box”
First Line: Here is the compartment of truth.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
April 1, 1979 |
dc26.45 | “Toward the Space Age”
First Line: We must begin to catch hold of everything.
Accepted by: Voyageur.
|
January 1, 1965 |
dc26.46 | “Network”
First Line: It shakes whenever you try - the tree by the door.
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
May 19, 1982 |
dc26.47 | “Neighbors”
First Line: These mountains do their own announcements.
Accepted by: Bristlecone.
|
July 24, 1987 |
dc26.48 | “Late, Passing Prairie Farm”
First Line: All night like a star a single bulb.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
September 1, 1975 |
dc26.49 | “Signs at Our Place”
First Line: One chair has this desk across the arm.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
March 1, 1978 |
dc26.50 | “Report from K9 Operator Rover on the
Motel at Grand Island”
First Line: Four summers ago tar covered a road.
Accepted by: Green Mountains Review.
|
November 5, 1985 |
dc26.51 | “Winnemucca, She”
First Line: Lived here when eagles owned Stony Mountain.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 12, 1989 |
dc26.52 | “Cocktail Party Talk”
First Line: Italic talk. Plain round hand talk.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
November 1, 1977 |
dc26.53 | “Poets to Consider for Next Season’s
Series”
First Line: Creighton L. Herksheimer the Princeton .
Accepted by: Occident.
|
November 21, 1985 |
dc26.54 | “Part 4: Elegies”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc26.55 | “If Only”
First Line: If only the wind moved outside, and all else waited.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc26.56 | “For a Lost Child”
First Line: What happens is, the kind of snow that sweeps.
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 4, 1989 |
dc26.57 | “Going On”
First Line: On the hollow night a small hand.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1989 |
dc26.58 | “Consolations”
First Line: The broken part mends even stronger than the rest.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
May 1, 1989 |
dc26.59 | “What She Left”
First Line: The dress with flowers on it and.
Accepted by: Cornell Review.
|
September 1, 1976 |
dc26.60 | “Four A.M.”
First Line: Night wears out. Stars that were high go down.
Accepted by: Agni.
|
April 21, 1986 |
dc26.61 | “Security”
First Line: Tomorrow will have an island. Before night.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
March 1, 1988 |
dc26.62 | “Rescue”
First Line: A fire was burning. In another room.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
October 18, 1977 |
dc26.63 | “Long Distance”
First Line: We didn’t know at the time. It was.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
March 1, 1982 |
dc26.64 | “Disposal”
First Line: Paste her picture back of the mirror.
Accepted by: Literary Olympians II and Crosscurrents.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc26.65 | “Your Life”
First Line: You will walk toward the mirror.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 7, 1986 |
dc26.66 | “Yes”
First Line: It could happen any time, tornado.
Accepted by: Sequoia.
|
April 4, 1989 |
dc26.67 | “Listening Around”
First Line: Any breeze to willow.
|
January 1, 1981 |
dc26.68 | “Part 5: Vita”
section title.
|
undated |
dc26.69 | “What’s in My Journal”
First Line: Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean.
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 4, 1989 |
dc26.70 | “Evolution”
First Line: The thing is, I’m still.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 1, 1987 |
dc26.71 | “Merci Beaucoup”
First Line: It would help if no one ever mentioned.
Accepted by: Williwaw.
|
May 1, 1987 |
dc26.72 | “Young”
First Line: Before time had a name, when win.
Accepted by: Panoply.
|
April 27, 1988 |
dc26.73 | “It’s All Right”
First Line: Someone you trusted has treated you bad.
Accepted by: Cutbank.
|
September 26, 1988 |
dc26.74 | “Life Work”
First Line: Even now in my hands the feel of the shovel comes back.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
|
February 1, 1986 |
dc26.75 | “In Camp”
First Line: That winter of the war, every day.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1973 |
dc26.76 | “How These Words Happened”
First Line: In winter, in the dark hours, when others.
Accepted by: 5:00 AM.
|
January 1, 1987 |
dc26.77 | “Some Words in Place of a Wailing
Wall”
First Line: Saplings by the river here to grow.
Accepted by: The And Review.
|
October 22, 1987 |
dc26.78 | “Something to Declare”
First Line: They have never had a war big enough.
Accepted by: Antaeus.
|
March 1, 1988 |
dc26.79 | “Size of a Fist”
First Line: This engine started years ago - many .
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc26.80 | “Bonuses”
First Line: Any island, or a break in the weather.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
March 28, 1988 |
dc26.81 | “Vita”
First Line: God guided my hand.
Accepted by: Agni Review.
|
July 1, 1989 |
dc27: Put-together for History Is Loose Again, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 12/Folder dc27
Assembled in 1991.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc27.1 | cover |
March 11, 1991 |
dc27.2 | “Part 1: Learning About the
Ground”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc27.3 | “How You Know”
First Line: Everyone first hears the news as a child.
Accepted by: Alembic.
|
November 14, 1989 |
dc27.4 | “Listening to the Tide”
First Line: Tomorrows ago the world spun.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
February 1, 1985 |
dc27.5 | “Good Thought”
First Line: Bent over a ship in a bottle, on an island.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
February 23, 1982 |
dc27.6 | “In the Library”
First Line: You are reading a book, and think you know.
Accepted by: Oregon English.
|
October 1, 1984 |
dc27.7 | “Note Slid Under the Door”
First Line: Some people don’t know this:.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 27, 1983 |
dc27.8 | “La Boheme”
First Line: The music said sorrow. It said Mimi was dead.
Accepted by: Brown.
|
February 2, 1984 |
dc27.9 | “Even in the Desert”
First Line: You know how willow is. Well, there was.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
December 15, 1981 |
dc27.10 | “Bent-Over Ones”
First Line: Some trees look down when.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
July 1, 1984 |
dc27.11 | “Bristlecone”
First Line: A sky so blue it hurts frames.
Accepted by: Calliopea.
|
October 1, 1982 |
dc27.12 | “Way Trees Began”
First Line: Before the tress came, when only grass.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
March 1, 1984 |
dc27.13 | “Watching Sandhill Cranes”
First Line: Spirits among us have departed - friends.
Accepted by: Petroglyph.
|
June 1, 1987 |
dc27.14 | “Weeds in a Vacant Lot”
First Line: We know that it’s our fault, these effluent suburbs.
Accepted by: Tampa Bay Review.
|
April 21, 1988 |
dc27.15 | “By the Chapel”
First Line: We stood around for awhile and John said.
Accepted by: Painted Bride.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc27.16 | “Presence”
First Line: A dawns inside my shadow.
Accepted by: Poetry Kanto.
|
September 1, 1982 |
dc27.17 | “January’s Child”
First Line: My life arrived in winter, wrapped.
Accepted by: Kentucky Poetry Review.
|
July 18, 1983 |
dc27.18 | “Freedom of Expression”
First Line: My feet wait there listening, and when.
Accepted by: Southern Florida Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1989 |
dc27.19 | “Coming to Know”
First Line: A balloon ascends on that path it finds in the air.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1984 |
dc27.20 | “Someone You Don’t Know”
First Line: Walking into a hall, not pressing, never.
Accepted by: Clockwatch Review.
|
December 1, 1981 |
dc27.21 | “Getting Acquainted with Someone You Don’t
Know (prose commentary)”
First Line: This poem is one of the....
|
undated |
dc27.22 | “It Returns at Times”
First Line: Where is that grief I had, the one.
Accepted by: Willamette Journal.
|
July 1, 1988 |
dc27.23 | “Twelve”
First Line: Early leaves are tender. They shiver.
|
June 4, 1985 |
dc27.24 | “Cottonwood”
First Line: By June or July the river flows lazily.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 8, 1989 |
dc27.25 | “Looking Out in the Morning: Carson
City”
First Line: In Nevada we ordinary people carry our money.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
July 28, 1989 |
dc27.26 | “Time Goes By”
First Line: On a corner you meet a face. It follows you.
Accepted by: Writer's Forum.
|
September 18, 1983 |
dc27.27 | “How It Can Be”
First Line: People can drift farther apart. They can.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
October 1, 1984 |
dc27.28 | “Bad Dreams”
First Line: You are wounded, but at first you think.
Accepted by: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
|
March 1, 1978 |
dc27.29 | “Influential Writers”
First Line: Some of them write too loud.
Accepted by: Willow Springs.
|
June 28, 1990 |
dc27.30 | “For the Chair of Any Committee I’m
On”
First Line: If you value my opinion, please be.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
October 8, 1981 |
dc27.31 | “Child of Luck”
First Line: Once I feel bad, it takes chocolate.
Accepted by: Formalist.
|
November 1, 1990 |
dc27.32 | “Browser”
First Line: Is there another book that was.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
October 1, 1984 |
dc27.33 | Left out of History is Loose Again -
leftover from MNWT
Cover page.
|
March 11, 1991 |
dc27.34 | “My Name Is William Tell - Poems from the
Tradition of Experiment”
First Line: My name is William Tell.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
September 1, 1982 |
dc27.35 | “Later”
First Line: It will get cold.
Accepted by: Alembic.
|
January 8, 1987 |
dc27.36 | “For Miss Frazier in Ninth Grade
Art”
First Line: Look - between flurries of rain, mountains.
Accepted by: Prairie Wind.
|
April 1, 1987 |
dc27.37 | “Living in the West”
First Line: At Biggs Junction in Jack’s Fine Foods.
Accepted by: Fine Madness.
|
July 1, 1989 |
dc27.38 | “In Memoriam”
First Line: That shriek when a train passes.
Accepted by: Soundings.
|
April 5, 1990 |
dc27.39 | “Four A.M. on Crusader”
First Line: It’s that first long swell of the tide rocks.
Accepted by: Agni Review.
|
June 1, 1989 |
dc27.40 | “Growing Up in Kansas”
First Line: It was the smell stopped me.
Accepted by: Review La Booche.
|
October 13, 1989 |
dc27.41 | “Libretto”
First Line: Now comes the bad part, where she hears.
Accepted by: Oxford Magazine.
|
May 16, 1984 |
dc27.42 | “Poet in a Strange Land”
First Line: To be present, seeing.
Accepted by: Scarab.
|
July 8, 1982 |
dc27.43 | “Saying It”
First Line: You don’t have to try, for the truth.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
June 10, 1982 |
dc27.44 | “Deserters”
First Line: At first the old people hesitate - time.
Accepted by: Negative Capacity.
|
April 23, 1984 |
dc27.45 | “Looking Back on the Weaving
Room”
First Line: It will be the days and the sound of the sewing.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
August 1, 1982 |
dc27.46 | “Late Call”
First Line: When Jeanie called me, my life was easy.
Accepted by: Pteranodon.
|
January 1, 1983 |
dc27.47 | “Sentences”
First Line: Whatever is closing toward us begins to spell.
Accepted by: Bluefish.
|
March 6, 1983 |
dc27.48 | “Panel at AWP”
First Line: Someone named Canal talked about a bear.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
February 1, 1983 |
dc27.49 | “This Is for Everyone”
First Line: Avalanche.
|
July 1, 1988 |
dc28: Put-together for Holding Onto the Grass, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc28
Assembled in 1992.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc28.1 | “When It Comes”
First Line: Any time. Now. The next minute.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
July 1, 1991 |
dc28.2 | Title page |
undated |
dc28.3 | “Some Questions to Ask During [an
Interview] Your Reading”
Dedication.
|
undated |
dc28.4 | “Part 1: Grace Abounding”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc28.5 | “That Day”
First Line: Have the phone ready.
Accepted by: Licking River Review.
|
December 1, 1989 |
dc28.6 | “Report to Someone”
First Line: We think we’re all there is, then the big light.
Accepted by: Willamette Journal.
|
July 16, 1989 |
dc28.7 | “Leaving Home”
First Line: What you leave is the front porch in the evening.
Accepted by: Left Bank.
|
March 2, 1992 |
dc28.8 | “For Robert I. Stafford”
First Line: Caterpillars measure you, our mother.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
|
December 1, 1974 |
dc28.9 | “One of the Stories”
First Line: A square of color on Rayl’s Hill.
Accepted by: .
|
October 1, 1973 |
dc28.10 | “Grace Abounding”
First Line: Air crowds into my cell so considerately.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
August 6, 1991 |
dc28.11 | “Part 2: Pretend You Live In a
Room”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc28.12 | “After a Sleazy Show”
First Line: No warning was posted there in the theater.
Accepted by: Pointed Circle.
|
July 12, 1987 |
dc28.13 | “My NEA Poem”
First Line: A blank place on the page.
Accepted by: Red Dirt.
|
July 28, 1990 |
dc28.14 | “You Forget”
First Line: Often in high school some quick sun-arrow.
Accepted by: University of Tampa.
|
April 8, 1989 |
dc28.15 | “Learning to Adjust”
First Line: At the store they gave me the wrong.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
August 12, 1990 |
dc28.16 | “Men”
First Line: After a war come the memorials.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
April 9, 1990 |
dc28.17 | “Distractions" (two drafts)
First Line: Think about Gypsies.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc28.18 | “Pretend You Live in a Room”
First Line: Play like you had a war. Hardly anyone.
Accepted by: Inroads.
|
April 30, 1991 |
dc28.19 | “Part 3: From the Ink on This
Page”
Section title.
|
undated |
dc28.20 | “From the Ink on This Page”
First Line: An old barn could hold out its dreams. Day.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
December 22, 1990 |
dc28.21 | “Getting Here”
First Line: Utah restores your soul,” Window.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
October 21, 1989 |
dc28.22 | “Up a Side Canyon”
First Line: They have trained the water to talk, and it prattles.
Accepted by: Nighthawk.
|
August 1, 1991 |
dc28.23 | “East of Broken Top”
First Line: Sunset reaches out, earth rolls free.
Accepted by: Northwoods.
|
July 1, 1988 |
dc28.24 | “In the All-Verbs Navaho
World”
First Line: Left-alone grow things wait, rustle-grass, click-.
Accepted by: Rhetoric Review.
|
February 26, 1990 |
dc28.25 | “Malheur Before Dawn”
First Line: An owl sound wandered along the road with me.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
March 1, 1992 |
dc28.26 | “For Our Party Last Night”
First Line: It was necessary at the time that the sun.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
July 30, 1990 |
dc28.27 | “Sound by the River”
First Line: A bird with a little brown vest.
Accepted by: Fireweed.
|
August 20, 1990 |
dc28.28 | “Some Names”
First Line: Some only whispers, they have faded.
Accepted by: Plum Review.
|
April 1, 1992 |
dc28.29 | “Survival Course”
First Line: This is the grip, like this.
Accepted by: Sow’s Ear.
|
August 1, 1990 |
dc29: Put-together for Seeking the Way, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc29
Assembled in 1992.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc29.1 | “Why I Keep a Journal" (two
drafts)
First Line: While I follow the wind.
Accepted by: American Scholar and Inroads.
|
July 1, 1974 |
dc29.2 | “Maybe There Is”
First Line: Could there be a star so pure you would die.
Accepted by: Rook Press.
|
November 1, 1975 |
dc29.3 | “One of the Exiles”
First Line: They give me their vast neglect.
Accepted by: Mikrokosmos and Inroads.
|
July 1, 1968 |
dc29.4 | “Coming Home”
First Line: The engine at fifty, driving.
Accepted by: Portland Review.
|
October 1, 1975 |
dc29.5 | “On a Walk One Rainy Morning”
First Line: Mushrooms announce their small religions.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
October 8, 1963 |
dc29.6 | “After All These Years”
First Line: Each faint star out in the night.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
April 16, 1970 |
dc29.7 | “Any Day”
First Line: The world is on fire, slow flame.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
June 1, 1973 |
dc29.8 | “Always With Us”
First Line: Always with us, quiet, attentive.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly.
|
July 1, 1971 |
dc29.9 | “On the Moon”
First Line: It is so quiet on the moon.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
December 31, 1950 |
dc29.10 | “Speaking Trance" (2 versions)
First Line: When Saint Sebastian came down this street.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
May 16, 1967 |
dc30: Put-together for unpublished book Torque Tongue , ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc30
Assembled in 1992. Includes drawings by Barbara Stafford-Wilson.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc30.1 | “What We Did”
First Line: We clamped the camera to a fencepost, old.
Accepted by: Tuatara.
|
April 1, 1968 |
dc30.2 | “Becoming Sure”
First Line: In the cave I forgot the word: stalagmite.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
January 1, 1978 |
dc30.3 | “Cabbage”
First Line: Green brain, great lettuce, fumbling.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
February 1, 1979 |
dc30.4 | “What a Generator Tells a
Wire”
First Line: To know life lengthwise you must accept.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
February 1, 1976 |
dc30.5 | “Butcher’s Dog" (2 versions)
First Line: Something to bark about, a tail.
Accepted by: Bestiary.
|
February 1, 1971 |
dc30.6 | “In My Copy of Wordsworth”
First Line: Far on the Khyber Road beyond Peshawar.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
September 1, 1972 |
dc30.7 | “Speed-Reading the World”
First Line: Anything we forget goes over.
Accepted by: Indiana Writes.
|
July 1, 1974 |
dc30.8 | “Even Then It Was Late”
First Line: In a drawer - your fingers know the place.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
October 1, 1980 |
dc30.9 | “Learning”
First Line: A piccolo played, then a drum.
Accepted by: Berkeley Magazine.
|
November 1, 1977 |
dc30.10 | “Yesterday in the East
Pasture”
First Line: I lay among rocks to try being dead.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
April 1, 1977 |
dc30.1: Put-together for unpublished book with Gibbs Smith Publishing, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc30.1
Assembled in 1992.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc30.1.1 | Publisher query |
9/14/92 |
dc30.1.2 | Stafford reply to query |
9/22/92 |
dc30.1.3 | “Stafford Handwritten note”
Gibbs Smith Project.
|
5/11/93 |
dc30.1.4 | “Confronting These Pages" (1)
First Line: Sight isn't enough—don't just look.
|
9/22/92 |
dc30.1.5 | “Confronting These Pages" (2)
First Line: by. It's a smart system. . ..
|
9/22/92 |
dc30.1.6 | “Confronting . . .”
First Line: Wait. You've picked this up . . ..
|
undated |
dc30.1.7 | “Is This Feeling About the West
Real?”
First Line: All their lives out here people know.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.8 | “Some Places Are Quiet" (Texts for
Pictures)
First Line: You can think of how still it will be.
|
undated |
dc30.1.9 | “A Mystery" (Texts for
Pictures)
First Line: What does it mean when so many trees are just.
|
undated |
dc30.1.9 | “What Gets Away”
First Line: Little things hide. Sometimes they.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.10 | “Junipers" (Texts for
Pictures)
First Line: When we're together, when the sun's hand.
|
undated |
dc30.1.11 | “Looking at a Rock" (1)
First Line: Some people say the best rock in the world.
|
9/29/92 |
dc30.1.12 | “Looking at a Rock" (2)
First Line: the terrible choking boulder that grows in.
|
9/29/92 |
dc30.1.13 | “Texts for Pictures”
First Line: Some of us have chosen to live among rocks.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.14 | “Texts for Pictures" (rocks,
continued)
First Line: Now and then one stirs when nobody.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.15 | “A Digression" (Texts for
Pictures)
First Line: Under the earth a great river has found.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.16 | “The Whole Thing" (Texts for
Pictures)
First Line: Does it make any difference what you see.
|
undated |
dc30.1.17 | “Wistful Places”
First Line: Certain real places want to feel loved. They.
|
undated |
dc30.1.18 | “The Whole Thing”
First Line: Does it make any difference what you see.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.19 | “Treasure”
First Line: Trees allow you a wilderness. Go find .
verso: poem notes
|
undated |
dc30.1.20 | “Like a Peanut”
First Line: All you can see of a rock is the outside, but.
|
undated |
dc30.1.21 | “What Gets Away”
First Line: Little things hide. Sometimes they.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
verso: Photo 5
|
undated |
dc30.1.22 | “A Mystery”
First Line: What does it mean when so many trees are just.
verso: Photo 4
|
undated |
dc30.1.23 | “Junipers”
First Line: When we're together, when the sun's hand.
verso: Photo 6
|
undated |
dc30.1.24 | “Looking at a Rock" (1)
First Line: Some people say the best rock in the world.
|
9/19/92 |
dc30.1.25 | “Looking at a Rock" (2)
First Line: The strange thing is, it worked; and that person.
|
undated |
dc30.1.26 | “Looking at a Rock" (1)
First Line: Some people say the best rock in the world.
|
undated |
dc30.1.27 | “Looking at a Rock" (2)
First Line: The strange thing is, it worked; and that person.
verso: Photo 8
|
undated |
dc30.1.28 | “A Digression”
First Line: Under the earth a great river has found.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
verso: Photo 11
|
undated |
dc30.1.29 | “More About Rocks" (1)
First Line: Some of us have chosen to live among rocks.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.30 | “More About Rocks" (2)
First Line: Now and then one stirs when nobody.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.31 | “Treasure”
First Line: Trees allow you a wilderness. Go find .
verso: Photo 13
|
undated |
dc30.1.32 | “Junipers (Texts for
Pictures)”
First Line: When we're together, whenwe all comb the wind.
|
undated |
dc30.1.33 | “Texts for Pictures”
First Line: Some places are quiet.
|
undated |
dc30.1.34 | “Texts for Pictures”
First Line: What does it mean when so many trees are just.
|
undated |
dc30.1.34 | “[What Gets Away]”
First Line: Little things hide. Sometimes they.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
|
undated |
dc30.1.35 | “Is This Feeling About the West
Real?”
First Line: All their lives out here people know.
Published in: Even In Quiet Places and Methow River
Poems.
verso: Photo 2
|
undated |
dc30.1.36 | “Some Places Are Quiet”
First Line: You can think of how still it will be.
verso: Photo 3
|
undated |
dc30.1.37 | “Confronting These Pages”
First Line: Wait. You've picked this up . . ..
|
undated |
dc30.1.38 | “Some Places Are Quiet”
First Line: You can think of how still it will be.
|
undated |
dc31: Put-together for Who Are You Really, Wanderer?, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc31
Assembled in 1993.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc31.1 | Cover page |
January 1, 1993 |
dc31.2 | title page |
undated |
dc31.3 | contents page |
undated |
dc31.4 | “For You”
First Line: It is a secret still, but already your tree.
Accepted by: Southern Florida Poetry Review.
|
January 1, 1986 |
dc31.5 | “Another Language”
First Line: Recently another language....
Accepted by: Caliban.
|
March 26, 1982 |
dc31.6 | “Deep Light”
First Line: From far a light, maybe a hill ranch.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
October 20, 1987 |
dc31.7 | “Stray Moments”
First Line: We used to ask - remember? We said.
Accepted by: Alembic.
|
October 13, 1989 |
dc31.8 | “History Display”
First Line: Think of those generals at the wax museum.
Accepted by: Panoply.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc31.9 | “Spirit of Place: Great Blue
Heron”
First Line: Out of their loneliness for each other.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
April 1, 1987 |
dc31.10 | “All the Time”
First Line: Evenings, after others go inside.
Accepted by: Crab Creek Review.
|
October 31, 1986 |
dc31.11 | “Being Young: Eleven”
First Line: I dreamed I was dead.
Accepted by: Inroads.
|
June 1, 1981 |
dc31.12 | “Back Home on Class Day”
First Line: A tornado interrupted the speech about.
Accepted by: Cow Creek Review.
|
August 1, 1986 |
dc31.13 | “Facts”
First Line: Zurich is in the Alps,” I learned.
Accepted by: Southern Florida Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1978 |
dc31.14 | “Being Saved”
First Line: We have all we need, some kind of sky and maybe.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
|
dc31.15 | “Playing the Game”
First Line: Every rock says, “Your move,” then waits.
Accepted by: Red Dirt.
|
April 25, 1990 |
dc31.16 | “In a Country Churchyard”
First Line: You little diggers and birds, things.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
August 20, 1980 |
dc31.17 | “Big World, Little Man”
First Line: Some things it is wrong to think of,”.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
February 21, 1992 |
dc31.18 | “Something You Should KNow”
First Line: They bring racing pigeons from everywhere.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 8, 1992 |
dc31.19 | “Over in Montana”
First Line: Winter stops by for a visit each year.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
August 17, 1992 |
dc31.20 | “Story I Have to Tell You”
First Line: They made a wolf out of sheet iron.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
March 16, 1992 |
dc31.21 | “Farrier Talk”
First Line: They said a mule with the right mother.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
March 27, 1992 |
dc31.22 | “Farewell, Age Ten”
First Line: While its owner looks away I touch the rabbit.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
March 2, 1992 |
dc31.23 | “Sometimes”
First Line: While they criticize you how do you .
Accepted by: Fine Madness.
|
October 1, 1988 |
dc31.24 | “Glimpse: Age Five”
First Line: Our mother was pretty sure. She held her.
Accepted by: Sycamore Review.
|
July 31, 1990 |
dc31.25 | “Old Prof”
First Line: He wants to go north. His life has become.
Accepted by: Fine Madness.
|
April 21, 1986 |
dc31.26 | “Poetry [Facing Outward](2
drafts)”
First Line: Its door opens near. It’s a shrine.
Accepted by: Orbis.
|
February 6, 1992 |
dc31.27 | “In the Book”
First Line: A hand appears.
Accepted by: Cafe Solo.
|
July 5, 1991 |
dc31.28 | “Junkyard Thoughts”
First Line: Around each thing on earth put.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
June 13, 1992 |
dc31.29 | “Impasse”
First Line: Something shines among the mountains. I follow it.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 1, 1982 |
dc31.30 | “One Good Thing”
First Line: One good thing, you can’t get.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
April 22, 1991 |
dc31.31 | “Commitment”
First Line: When you go away and the sun crosses.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
July 1, 1986 |
dc31.32 | “Snow”
First Line: Without a word I arrive quietly.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
January 1, 1988 |
dc32: Put-together for Methow River Poems, ????Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 13/Folder dc32
Assembled in 1995.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
dc32.1 | Cover sheet |
July 1, 1993 |
dc32.2 | “Where We Are" [This Morning] (2
versions)
First Line: Fog in the morning here.
|
April 22, 1993 |
dc32.3 | “Valley Like This”
First Line: Sometimes you look at an empty valley like this.
|
June 10, 1993 |
dc32.4 | “From the Wild People”
First Line: Time used to live here.
|
October 24, 1992 |
dc32.5 | “Nobody Cares [Silver Star]”
First Line: Nobody cares if you stop here. You can.
|
June 3, 1993 |
dc32.6 | “Being a Person" [Invoking the
Owls]
First Line: Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke.
|
February 19, 1993 |
dc32.7 | “Is This Feeling about the West
Real?”
First Line: All their lives out here some people know.
|
undated |
dc32.8 | “You Reading This: Stop" (2
versions)
First Line: Don’t just stay tangled up in your life.
|
July 1, 1993 |
dc32.9 | “Silver Star" [Being a Mountain / What It
Takes]
First Line: To be a mountain you have to climb alone.
|
February 14, 1993 |
dc32.10 | “Time for Serenity, Anyone?”
First Line: I like to live in the sound of water.
|
May 16, 1993 |
dc32.11 | “Climbing Along the River”
note on poem.
|
undated |
dc32.12 | “Ask Me”
First Line: note on poem.
|
undated |
dc32.13 | “You Can’t See It, But”
First Line: Under the earth a great river has found.
|
October 24, 1992 |
dc32.14 | “Emily, This Place, and You”
First Line: She got out of the car here one day.
|
May 17, 1993 |
dc32.15 | “From This Lookout Point”
First Line: The cast here, in order of disappearance, were.
|
undated |
dc32.16 | “I’m Any Old Tree" [Angel Oak]
First Line: Look at me. My family are gone. I am old and alone.
|
March 19, 1993 |
dc32.17 | “Real People" [Tree People]
First Line: Trees are afraid of storms. Even big ones.
|
undated |
dc32.18 | “Pretty Good Day”
First Line: Before day around here.
|
undated |
dc32.19 | “It’s Like This”
First Line: It’s like this - time opens.
|
undated |
dc32.20 | “Stop, Look, Listen”
First Line: This is the poem speaking. The wood that holds me.
|
May 15, 1993 |
dc32.21 | “Mountain-Size Blunders: What Poor
Planning Can Do”
First Line: You wouldn’t happen to need any rocks, would you?.
|
May 16, 1993 |
dc32.22 | “Whole Thing”
First Line: Does it make any difference what you see.
|
undated |
dc32.23 | “In the Deep Forest" [Cedars]
First Line: Every night the trees are listening. They hear.
|
January 8, 1993 |
dc32.24 | “What Gets Away”
First Line: Little things hide. Sometimes they.
|
undated |
dc32.25 | “You Know Who Did All This?”
First Line: Time did all this, built it rock.
|
July 12, 1993 |
dc32.26 | “What’s the hurry? Stop here
awhile”
First Line: Our ancestors used to stop here. (This was before.
|
undated |
dc32.27 | “Viewpoint" (draft of You Reading This:
Stop)
First Line: You reading this: Stop. It just gets tangled up.
|
undated |
dc32.28 | “You Standing There”
First Line: At the next place where you stop.
|
undated |
dc32.29 | “It Will Be Hard to Get Past
Here”
First Line: And anyway you should stop for a little while.
|
undated |
dc32.30 | “First Ones Here”
First Line: Her name was Wanda Sue. Or maybe it was Olisawa.
|
June 3, 1993 |
dc32.31 | “Methow Trail”
First Line: There’s a strange kind of rock around here somewhere.
|
June 3, 1993 |
B1: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles A-E, 1960s-1970sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 14/Folder B1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
B1.1 | “Mirror”
First Line: I bring you your life back, lefthanded.
Accepted by: Willamette Week.
|
May 1, 1974 |
B1.2 | “Lost One”
First Line: Faint heart hints.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
October 1, 1961 |
B1.3 | “Lost Colony”
First Line: Waiting for help they held on at Roanoke.
Accepted by: Elizabeth Press.
|
January 1, 1956 |
B1.4 | “Little Fictions, Little
Truths”
First Line: The world is upside down in the eye.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
October 5, 1975 |
B1.5 | “Last Song at the Bottom of Lake
Chinook”
First Line: Their songs have lifted them far away.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B1.6 | “Lake Look”
First Line: The eerie eyes of proud people.
Accepted by: Amanuensis.
|
October 14, 1952 |
B1.7 | “Glimpsed in Grass”
First Line: A snake finds life and lives.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
B1.8 | “A Dream”
First Line: I scramble far to a niche.
Accepted by: The Phoenix.
|
February 9, 1969 |
B1.9 | list of poems |
|
B1.10 | “Paragraphs to Tack on the Wall" [A
Prospectus for a Class Called “Notes on the Refrigerator
Door”]
First Line: There are messages to leave, as if.
Accepted by: Bellevue Press.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B1.11 | “War-Monument Speech for July
4”
First Line: We knock an oak and for each rememberer.
Accepted by: Midwest Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1972 |
B1.12 | “Hearing the Sad Coyotes”
First Line: They know.
|
September 1, 1975 |
B1.13 | “Austere Hope, Daily Faith”
First Line: Even a villain sleeps - atrocities.
Accepted by: Alembic.
|
undated |
B1.14 | “About Yesterday (two
versions)”
First Line: Wind past a hollow tree, that mouth.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
October 1, 1977 |
B1.15 | MS contents list |
|
B1.16 | MS contents list |
|
B1.17 | Ms list
maybe for Alberta Turner & David Young book.
|
June 1, 1978 |
B1.18 | “Accepting Surprise”
First Line: The right mistakes - that rich moment.
Accepted by: Hampden - Sydney Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B1.19 | “Accepting the Sky”
First Line: Big animals alive in the cage of the forest.
Accepted by: Counter Measures.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B1.20 | “Accepting the Watch”
First Line: Upon your wrist where time taps.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
March 1, 1975 |
B1.21 | “Across the Mountains”
First Line: That country discovered by dawn beyond.
Accepted by: Oregon Times.
|
June 1, 1975 |
B1.22 | “Action”
First Line: A bolo’s a knife you grab at the awkward end.
Accepted by: New Mexico Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1955 |
B1.23 | “Aeneas”
First Line: Clear place in the tide.
Accepted by: Aperture.
|
June 1, 1958 |
B1.24 | “After Agra”
First Line: The court that lets me live - how far.
Accepted by: Thought.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B1.25 | “After the Osprey Dream”
First Line: Fish leap out of the lake; their.
|
July 1, 1965 |
B1.26 | “Afterthoughts on How Difficult People Say
It Is to Tell What the Future Will Bring”
First Line: We saw ahead all right.
Accepted by: But Is It Poetry?.
|
December 1, 1961 |
B1.27 | “Almost”
First Line: The grass prepares for a footprint.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
March 1, 1974 |
B1.28 | “American Studies”
First Line: In our country there is a long strange.
Accepted by: Vanderbilt Poetry Review.
|
March 1, 1971 |
B1.29 | “Another Incarnation”
First Line: Some name woven among the stars.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B1.30 | “Anyone’s Shoes”
First Line: We walk anywhere, wear anyone’s.
Accepted by: Portland Scribe.
|
May 1, 1974 |
B1.31 | “Asking You to Turn These
Pages”
First Line: Those earlier pages were only important - great.
Accepted by: Northwest Review of Books.
|
January 1, 1977 |
B1.32 | “At a College Arts Festival [at La
Grande]”
First Line: The college on its hill, with horn-rimmed.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
April 18, 1963 |
B1.33 | “At a Honeymoon Hotel”
First Line: A pulse of air steadies a flag.
Accepted by: Gryphon.
|
May 1, 1968 |
B1.34 | “At a School for the Deaf”
First Line: They talk their hands. They.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly, Mysore.
|
March 1, 1975 |
B1.35 | “At a Small, Church-Related
College”
First Line: Books around the office make a shelter.
Accepted by: Portland.
|
May 1, 1962 |
B1.36 | “At Dawn”
First Line: Light hunts the meadow.
Accepted by: Stone Drum.
|
October 1, 1971 |
B1.37 | “At Earle Birney’s School
(UBC)”
First Line: Where the slopes turn cliff.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 2, 1958 |
B1.38 | “At Ghost Ranch”
First Line: This is the place where tumbleweeds meet.
Accepted by: Doones.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B1.39 | “At Sky Ranch (two versions)”
First Line: When quick-swirled green wind hits the poplar.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
July 1, 1967 |
B1.40 | “At the Old Farm”
First Line: The thorns are left, wounding each other.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B1.41 | “Readers" [Author, Author] (2
versions)
First Line: A figure somewhere moves. They all stand.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1967 |
B1.42 | “Autumn Ode on Everything Except a Grecian
Urn”
First Line: Real edges on leaves offer a better way.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
August 1, 1967 |
B1.43 | “Bangladesh”
First Line: That day green earth began.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1972 |
B1.44 | “Because of the Rain”
First Line: Someone I touched because of.
Accepted by: Pembroke Magazine.
|
June 1, 1971 |
B1.45 | “Berky”
First Line: I wasn’t at your house, regret.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
October 1, 1976 |
B1.46 | “Best Show in Vegas”
First Line: The best show in Las Vegas was.
Accepted by: This Issue.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B1.47 | “Beyond Olallie”
First Line: Drowned in Oregon rain, in a cabin.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
January 1, 1976 |
B1.48 | “Beyond Pawnee Rock”
First Line: From here on The West inherits its own.
Accepted by: Crucible.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B1.49 | “Beyond What the Stock Market
Says”
First Line: We move a compass and watch the needle.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
October 1, 1976 |
B1.50 | “Biology Notes”
First Line: Talk we had, and even speech.
Accepted by: Chowder Review.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B1.51 | “Birches”
First Line: Seeing the leaves fall.
Accepted by: Pebble.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B1.51 | “Birches in the North”
First Line: That forest fows black and white.
Accepted by: Chicago Tibune Magazine.
|
September 1, 1968 |
B1.52 | “Both Ways”
First Line: Two things crossed Main Street [every day].
Accepted by: Three Rivers.
|
July 16, 1972 |
B1.53 | “Brown Blanket”
First Line: At random, from somewhere forgotten.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1965 |
B1.54 | “By a Window in Winter”
First Line: It is late. I am afrid. No one.
Accepted by: Goddard Journal.
|
January 1, 1975 |
B1.55 | “By the Black Ships”
First Line: All afternoon the blue rested there.
Accepted by: Quarterly Review of Literature.
|
May 1, 1962 |
B1.56 | “By the Rules”
First Line: The still game, after the breathing.
Accepted by: Barataria.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B1.57 | “Candle”
First Line: Up in the mountains inside a.
Accepted by: Seneca Review.
|
December 1, 1970 |
B1.58 | “Canon F 1 in France”
First Line: Spun from the light this picture.
Accepted by: Cincinnati Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1975 |
B1.59 | “Care for Others”
First Line: Where you live, lights love.
Accepted by: Lewis & Clark College Alumni
Association.
|
December 1, 1971 |
B1.60 | “Casualty”
First Line: Every turn of her head was alms.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1970 |
B1.61 | “Certain Cities”
First Line: Today cities like turtles on their backs.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
April 1, 1968 |
B1.62 | “Character”
First Line: You preferred oak trees, walked.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
December 1, 1959 |
B1.63 | “Character”
First Line: You preferred oak trees, walked.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
December 1, 1959 |
B1.64 | “Charm”
First Line: For if the plane goes down.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
June 1, 1975 |
B1.65 | “Chicago" [version of Out
West]
First Line: This air the buildings watch here holds.
|
January 1, 1963 |
B1.66 | “Cinquain & 2 Haiku”
First Line: Baby.
Accepted by: Thoreau Journal Quarterly.
|
April 1, 1972 |
B1.67 | “Coming Toward You”
First Line: In the sea my fingers begin to grow.
Accepted by: Mr. Cogito.
|
April 1, 1973 |
B1.68 | “Compliments to a Visitor”
First Line: You raised your eyebrows at the right .
Accepted by: Mosaic.
|
April 1, 1971 |
B1.69 | “Confession of a Reader" [two lines from
The Lost Child, P27.81]
First Line: There are countries I locate by the taste of coffee.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
January 1, 1967 |
B1.70 | “Corner of the Yard”
First Line: When the rock garden listens to the rain.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
February 1, 1963 |
B1.71 | “Crows”
First Line: You know a crow, you know a character.
Accepted by: Blackbird Circle.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B1.72 | “Daily Shoot-Out for Tourists on the
Square in Jackson, Wyoming”
First Line: It is more serious now, the encounter.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
B1.73 | “Daisy’s Ghost”
First Line: Found by midnight rain.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
March 1, 1969 |
B1.74 | “Day When You Are Reading
This”
First Line: The planet of nothing fills the sky, and.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 1, 1973 |
B1.75 | “Dear Jim Long" (three-page
poem)
First Line: I have a wound called “thought”.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
May 1, 1975 |
B1.76 | “Death of Three Astronauts”
First Line: At some dawn or night.
Accepted by: Three Sisters.
|
July 1, 1971 |
B1.77 | “December Twenty-Five”
First Line: The date is ashamed. After all these years.
Accepted by: Hallmark Cards.
|
December 1, 1963 |
B1.78 | “Defense of My Uncle”
First Line: His job is a small part of the budget.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
June 1, 1963 |
B1.79 | “Democracy" [cf. American
Studies]
First Line: In our great country.
Accepted by: Steelhead.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B1.80 | “Denying”
First Line: It happened that we met. So many birds.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
January 1, 1975 |
B1.81 | “Departure Time”
First Line: Announcements.
Accepted by: Anagnorisis.
|
May 1, 1972 |
B1.82 | “Descent”
First Line: Combed past the wings, night recites to.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
January 1, 1967 |
B1.83 | “Design”
First Line: North of here in the tan autumn.
Accepted by: Sketchbook.
|
June 1, 1963 |
B1.84 | “Eagle on the Corner”
First Line: An eagle on the corner selling flags.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
July 1, 1970 |
B1.85 | “Electra”
First Line: It’s a long hard ride, face toward the window.
Accepted by: Grilled Flowers.
|
August 1, 1976 |
B1.86 | “Dogwood Tree in Bloom”
First Line: This tree has not been getting the news.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
undated |
B1.87 | “Dorm in Autumn”
First Line: Fistfuls of winter flung at our window.
Accepted by: The Performing Voice in Literature.
|
December 1, 1955 |
B1.88 | “Dream of My Life”
First Line: Days go by. Hearts hardly change.
Accepted by: New Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B1.89 | “Drummer Boy”
First Line: An army in the dust.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B1.90 | “Early Massacre”
First Line: Backward on the wagon.
Accepted by: Sumac.
|
December 1, 1969 |
B1.91 | “Early Riser”
First Line: The sick alarm clock crows.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
February 1, 1970 |
B1.92 | “Ecology in Southern
California”
First Line: A woman with a can came into the room.
Accepted by: Second Growth.
|
March 1, 1975 |
B1.93 | “Elegy”
First Line: Time: Now.
Accepted by: Tenn Poetry Journal.
|
March 1, 1970 |
B1.94 | “Encounters”
First Line: Meeting a silver destiny, our stream.
Accepted by: Presbyterian Life.
|
April 28, 1945 |
B1.95 | “Entering New Country”
First Line: The cat from all the hills.
Accepted by: Steppenwolf.
|
August 1, 1962 |
B1.96 | “Evening Walk”
First Line: All the animals are looking over.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
|
August 1, 1976 |
B1.97 | “Even Today" [cf. That Day
Again]
First Line: Over an empty bridge with hardly a sound.
|
August 1, 1971 |
B1.98 | “Every Autumn”
First Line: No matter how fast we hurry, winter.
Accepted by: Lewis & Clark alumni brochure 1973.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B1.99 | “Every Generous Day”
First Line: Remember days that fled over the hills.
Accepted by: Stand.
|
April 1, 1968 |
B1.100 | “Explaining How It Is - for John Crowe
Ransom”
First Line: This is the way it is: back then.
Accepted by: Sou’wester.
|
June 1, 1973 |
B1.101 | “Exorcism”
First Line: Lest a dream I have made my life.
Accepted by: Tri Quarterly.
|
September 1, 1963 |
B2: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles F-M, 1960s-1970sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 14/Folder B2
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
B2.1 | “Farewell to [Death of] a
Scholar”
First Line: The book fell from his hand. His life began.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B2.2 | “Farewell to Romantics Class”
First Line: In the world are there more answers than there are
questions?.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
February 1, 1974 |
B2.3 | “Farm on the Hill”
First Line: Drawn back, a danger to the window.
Accepted by: Today.
|
June 1, 1964 |
B2.4 | “Fern”
First Line: A tough plant, fern.
Accepted by: Ohio University Review.
|
January 1, 1968 |
B2.5 | “Fern in the Coal”
First Line: Wanting - I heard this one time - made hands.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
March 1, 1960 |
B2.6 | “Fieldpath”
First Line: I helped make this groove.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1952 |
B2.7 | “Finding Out Something”
First Line: It takes a long time, how cats learn to walk.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B2.8 | “Finding Sky Ranch”
First Line: There beyond Hay Creek turn.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B2.9 | “Finding the World”
First Line: Finally you feel the treasure: others.
Accepted by: Review La Booche.
|
May 1, 1976 |
B2.10 | “First and Last Things”
First Line: Sometimes you glimpse far ditches - laced.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
August 1, 1973 |
B2.11 | “First War”
First Line: Soldiers wore puttees, then. That was.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
April 1, 1964 |
B2.12 | “Fir Trees of the Valleys”
First Line: When they are clustered, their darkness.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
January 1, 1976 |
B2.13 | “Focusing”
First Line: We go down near enough to care.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1970 |
B2.14 | “Footnote”
First Line: When they captured Ishi, the last wild Indian, near
Oroville.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
February 2, 1945 |
B2.15 | “For a Distant Friend”
First Line: Where Western towns end nobody cares.
Accepted by: Road Apple Review.
|
January 1, 1970 |
B2.16 | “For a Friend Who Neglects Current
Events”
First Line: Granted, there is a hat for Texas.
Accepted by: Today.
|
July 1, 1964 |
B2.17 | “For an Artist on the Art
Commission”
First Line: What happens once.
Accepted by: Arts in Society.
|
April 1, 1967 |
B2.18 | “For a Plaque on the Door of an Isolated
House”
First Line: Someone Here, listen to your pulse and.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
October 1, 1974 |
B2.19 | “For a Stone at Balmer’s
Ranch”
First Line: From the first even a coyote pup will begin to.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
September 1, 1966 |
B2.20 | “For a While”
First Line: In the long cavern, after the candle.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B2.21 | “For Ben Hur Lampman”
First Line: In this lonely country after sundown.
Accepted by: Where Would You Go? Exploring the Seasons with Ben
Hur Lampman.
|
August 31, 1975 |
B2.22 | “Forceful Things”
First Line: In the opinion of butterflies.
Accepted by: Stand.
|
September 1, 1967 |
B2.23 | “For Certain Dirty Holy Men”
First Line: Bells won’t rinse these ruins.
Accepted by: Westerly Review.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B2.24 | “Forgetting Places”
First Line: This is the city puts a big hand, “Howdy”.
Accepted by: Open Places.
|
November 1, 1976 |
B2.25 | “Forgetting the Girl in the
Choir”
First Line: In the world or its opposite, where.
Accepted by: Hearsay Press.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B2.26 | “For John and Jo Haines, Milepost 68,
Fairbanks”
First Line: Like snow now we look out.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B2.27 | “For Someone Gone”
First Line: Like that horse, its breath whistled.
Accepted by: Colorado State Review.
|
January 1, 1967 |
B2.28 | “For the Party of the Third
Part”
First Line: We knew your house before we ever.
Accepted by: Rogue River Gorge.
|
June 1, 1970 |
B2.29 | “For the Record”
First Line: Always it puzzled me, why in my dreams.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason and Pebble.
|
January 1, 1964 |
B2.30 | “For the Stick [Shtick]
People”
First Line: At birth, launched into light.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
B2.31 | “Found Wanting - Chitina,
Alaska”
First Line: First light, that early gray urge.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B2.32 | “Found Written on the Sand”
First Line: Maybe on some island when.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
November 1, 1973 |
B2.33 | “Four Mirrors”
First Line: Over four mirrors the s light gushed late.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
August 1, 1964 |
B2.34 | “From a Historian”
First Line: Come near. Here is the picture.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
February 1, 1966 |
B2.35 | “From Exile: the Place He
Chose”
First Line: Seared and brave, the dogs run lean.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
June 1, 1971 |
B2.36 | “From Hole-in-the-Ground”
First Line: This year began.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B2.37 | “From the Back Row”
First Line: Is the quiet note heard?.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
December 26, 1947 |
B2.38 | “From the Quet of the Land”
First Line: Wise men: some of your words.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B2.39 | “From the Trees in the Forest”
First Line: ‘69? Yes, we remember: year.
Accepted by: Hart.
|
November 1, 1959 |
B2.40 | "From the Writing Workshop" [cf. Send-Off
to Ralph Salisbury P27.113]
First Line: We all scattered like a dropped.
Accepted by: Freelance.
|
May 1, 1966 |
B2.41 | “From Your Thorp Springs
Correspondent”
First Line: If you take one of these days - this one, say.
Accepted by: Oregon People Magazine.
|
March 15, 1975 |
B2.42 | “J”
First Line: One day i fell, straight as i should.
Accepted by: Genesis West.
|
May 1, 1963 |
B2.43 | “Gestures Any Day" [For Every
Day]
First Line: In an old bookshop the owner pushed.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
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July 7, 1972 |
B2.44 | “Ghost That Does Not Believe in
Men”
First Line: They seem to exist, but when I come steadily.
Accepted by: December and Pioneer Log.
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January 1, 1965 |
B2.45 | “Gifts from a Train”
First Line: Herded toward eternity.
Accepted by: Stone Drum.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B2.46 | “Glimpsed on a Wall in a
Hotel”
First Line: Afraid of you, the mirror turns.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1973 |
B2.47 | “Going Out and Coming Back”
First Line: Many people have wandered away.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B2.48 | “Graduate”
First Line: An old anguish, real as a nail.
Accepted by: Quixote.
|
April 1, 1967 |
B2.49 | “Great American Poem”
First Line: Like speaking soft, it was.
Accepted by: Roy Harvey Pearce Christmas card.
|
April 1, 1971 |
B2.50 | “Great Singing”
First Line: Something sang into the dust.
Accepted by: Etc..
|
August 13, 1958 |
B2.51 | “Green Mansions”
First Line: Listening Leaves guard the continent.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
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June 8, 1955 |
B2.52 | “Greetings from Oregon”
First Line: It’s neighborly to hear the rain.
Accepted by: The Record.
|
October 29, 1952 |
B2.53 | “Gulls Near the Bay”
First Line: Flannel pieces of gull come toward the school.
Accepted by: Approach.
|
November 1, 1956 |
B2.53 | “Haines Place: Mile 68, Fairbanks,
Alaska”
First Line: It’s.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1976 |
B2.54 | “Hatbrim Judgment”
First Line: Disguised as myself, I enter their city.
Accepted by: Virginia Quarterly Review.
|
February 1, 1970 |
B2.55 | “Headlong Creek”
First Line: When they let me out of the snow.
Accepted by: L’Esprit and Hotzarouli.
|
July 1, 1971 |
B2.56 | “Head of a Family”
First Line: I wake at four. I can breathe.
Accepted by: Uzzano.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B2.57 | “Headwaters of the Metolius”
First Line: Open woods, and we came there.
Accepted by: Eastern Oregon Literary Supplement.
|
October 1, 1965 |
B2.58 | “Hearing the Content”
First Line: Your voice, no matter how good, fades.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
May 1, 1976 |
B2.59 | “Help from Anywhere”
First Line: Listen, ears: when the sun came up.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
June 1, 1976 |
B2.60 | “Hippolytus”
First Line: You tangled your hands in the spray.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
|
October 1, 1962 |
B2.61 | “Historical Facts”
First Line: My father willed me some things.
Accepted by: Chowder Review.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B2.62 | “Home Economics”
First Line: What came, our mother took.
Accepted by: South & West.
|
December 1, 1966 |
B2.63 | “Home from Sabbatical”
First Line: In Washington they have hired.
Accepted by: The Wrighter.
|
August 1, 1964 |
B2.64 | “Hostler’s Son at School”
First Line: There was a candle that made the cave.
Accepted by: Andover Review.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B2.65 | “Identities”
First Line: In the land of lightning.
Accepted by: Stinktree.
|
April 1, 1967 |
B2.66 | “Important Things”
First Line: Like Locate Knob out west.
Accepted by: Stoney Lonesome.
|
August 14, 1972 |
B2.67 | “In a Country Cemetery”
First Line: Their last blanket, the wind, has.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
March 1, 1966 |
B2.68 | “In a Country Churchyard”
First Line: Part of someone’s name carved on a stone.
Accepted by: Oregon Times.
|
January 1, 1976 |
B2.69 | “In Alaska on a Summer
Morning”
First Line: A map on the floor catches.
Accepted by: Runes.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B2.70 | “In an Old Album”
First Line: This boy whose eyes can’t hide.
Accepted by: Runes.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B2.71 | “Incident”
First Line: Our clock one day, that ticked off.
Accepted by: Chowder Review.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B2.72 | “Incident in Fortran”
First Line: Too distant to feel, a ratio prowls.
Accepted by: Esquire.
|
April 1, 1972 |
B2.73 | “Incident in Space”
First Line: Something the size of a speck of dust.
Accepted by: Second Growth.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B2.74 | “Independence Day”
First Line: Sunk in the channel, half a rusty ship .
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
October 1, 1972 |
B2.75 | “In Hawaii”
First Line: One long wave dreams the Pacific.
Accepted by: Poetry Australia.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B2.76 | “Inscription to be Found on an
Island”
First Line: When our hands were here they.
Accepted by: Marvin Seltzman prints.
|
January 1, 1972 |
B2.77 | “In Skeleton Cave”
First Line: Hand open along the wall, we two.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
May 1, 1972 |
B2.78 | “Interview in the Dean’s
Office”
First Line: Was your mouth hard like that.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
April 1, 1976 |
B2.79 | “In the Airport at Denver”
First Line: To disappear, carry skis.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
July 1, 1966 |
B2.80 | “In the Clock of Reason”
First Line: Outside the clock of reason, cry, cry.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
October 1, 1958 |
B2.81 | “In the Funhouse at Seaside”
First Line: While the girl aimed the elegant.
Accepted by: University of Tampa Poetry Review.
|
February 1, 1964 |
B2.82 | “In the Morning All Over”
First Line: High there in our grove the little birds.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
January 1, 1974 |
B2.83 | “In the Quiet”
First Line: Somewhere on Mars it is dawn.
Accepted by: Unmuzzled Ox.
|
August 1, 1976 |
B2.84 | “In This One Life”
First Line: Beyond our door, beyond our wall.
Accepted by: Wang Hui-Ming.
|
July 1, 1971 |
B2.85 | “Landscape of Eberhart Poems [In This
Room]”
First Line: It’s as if no one has turned far enough.
Accepted by: Quartet.
|
June 2, 1973 |
B2.86 | “In Touch’s Kingdom”
First Line: We use the stupid self.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B2.87 | “Inventory”
First Line: Remember - we were warm.
Accepted by: NBW (Spring Rain).
|
February 1, 1972 |
B2.88 | “Invitation”
First Line: What you think about.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B2.89 | “Invitation to Explore”
First Line: The next thing that is going to happen.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
|
B2.90 | “In Washington”
First Line: If you turn a scene on its side.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B2.91 | “It Is Given”
First Line: The look of winter comes through the woods.
Accepted by: Mill Mountain Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B2.92 | “It Will Find You”
First Line: Not even a leaf, no one even.
Accepted by: Chelsea.
|
June 1, 1971 |
B2.93 | “Jeffers”
First Line: He is little now, less than a gull.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
June 1, 1965 |
B2.94 | “Job Interview: Unsuccessful - Oberlin,
Ohio”
First Line: We speak. Words walk down the hall.
Accepted by: New Student Review.
|
July 1, 1974 |
B2.95 | “John of the Mountains”
First Line: You can climb a mountain. At the top.
Accepted by: Places.
|
March 1, 1974 |
B2.96 | “Juniper Trees”
First Line: People of the dry wind.
Accepted by: Arlington Quarterly.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B2.97 | “Kansan Thinks of Colorado”
First Line: We brought home the wind in the oval.
Accepted by: Southern Colorado Standard.
|
May 1, 1973 |
B2.98 | “Keeping a Journal Even in Bad Times
”
First Line: Those rays of the sun that choose.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1972 |
B2.99 | “Lake Oswego”
First Line: Laurel craves this town.
Accepted by: Portland.
|
June 1, 1960 |
B2.100 | “Lake Wendoka”
First Line: Under the sidewalk lay an Indian village.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B2.101 | “1940’s”
First Line: In a mirror that saved those days.
Accepted by: Soft Press.
|
December 1, 1969 |
B2.102 | “Landowners in the Indian
Country”
First Line: In October these are the straight tongues.
Accepted by: Back Door.
|
December 1, 1968 |
B2.103 | “Language of Things”
First Line: One man heard how deep we are.
Accepted by: Medford Tribune.
|
September 1, 1962 |
B2.104 | “Late at Night”
First Line: Driving, I come for a while.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1969 |
B2.105 | “Late August at the Game
Refuge”
First Line: Out on the wide marsh at Malheur.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B2.106 | “Late Fall Meadow”
First Line: By day the sun starts home; it has.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
July 1, 1973 |
B2.107 | “Later”
First Line: When the world comes back, when the chairs.
Accepted by: Pembroke Magazine.
|
May 1, 1971 |
B2.108 | “Learning to live in the
Gutter”
First Line: Broken pieces of glass on guard.
Accepted by: South & West.
|
July 1, 1977 |
B2.109 | “Learning to Live in the
World”
First Line: For us there are few passes over the.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B2.110 | “Leaves”
First Line: Where they fell the earth got stronger.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
April 1, 1971 |
B2.111 | “Leavetaking”
First Line: When we heard the fish swim again.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
November 1, 1968 |
B2.112 | “Leaving Bit Shah”
First Line: Under the willows a strange light comes.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B2.113 | “Letters from Notables: #1”
First Line: Dear Sir.
Accepted by: Wang Hui-Ming.
|
October 1, 1970 |
B2.114 | “Life I Live Is Fiction, the Story I Tell
Is Truth (2 pp)”
First Line: A Japanese.
Accepted by: Field.
|
January 1, 1975 |
B2.115 | “Limits”
First Line: The blind man hears the sun.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
July 1, 1974 |
B2.116 | “Lines for a Girl Named Rosy”
First Line: Clouds are gray. In the light.
Accepted by: Pomegranate Press.
|
June 1, 1972 |
B2.117 | “Lines to Start [Stop] Talking
By”
First Line: In your city today outside my room.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B2.118 | “Lines with a Bouquet of Pearly
Everlasting”
First Line: These days before the sun finds out.
Accepted by: Chi Trib 9/70.
|
August 1, 1968 |
B2.119 | “Listening the Hours”
First Line: Listening the hours that filled with snow.
Accepted by: UCLAN Review.
|
December 20, 1955 |
B2.120 | “Little Beginning”
First Line: Whatever is important, the first.
Accepted by: Southern California Review.
|
March 1, 1971 |
B2.121 | “Little Sermon”
First Line: Those things you think to say, say them.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly.
|
January 1, 1975 |
B2.122 | “Living on the Plains”
First Line: That winter when this thought came - how the river.
Accepted by: Ark River Review.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B2.123 | “Local Statement”
First Line: After their trance all night the trees.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
March 12, 1972 |
B2.124 | “Lone Rider”
First Line: Leaving behind the slow wagons.
Accepted by: Inland.
|
March 18, 1951 |
B2.125 | “Looking Out in the Morning”
First Line: There is a promise: you live in a certain.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
July 1, 1973 |
B2.126 | “Lucy, Summer Nights”
First Line: From her fair turn through.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1970 |
B2.127 | “Magazine”
First Line: Someone dreamed a magazine, pages that moved.
Accepted by: Second Growth.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B2.128 | “Magic Lantern”
First Line: Here is that far, deep country I’ve.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
July 1, 1974 |
B2.129 | “Man from the Alaska Highway”
First Line: Some rainy mornings before citizens get up.
Accepted by: Harper’s.
|
October 1, 1962 |
B2.130 | “Matinee”
First Line: Dragged by the wild horse, everyone.
Accepted by: Idaho Heritage.
|
October 1, 1975 |
B2.131 | “Meditation at Dawn”
First Line: Sudden as the sky, day comes.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B2.132 | “Meeting My Class Called “Easy
Writer””
First Line: Where the cages were the animals.
Accepted by: Field.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B2.133 | “Memo from the Anthropology
Department”
First Line: Around here professors wonder how.
Accepted by: Prism.
|
June 1, 1964 |
B2.134 | “Message”
First Line: Snow, airmail, and sleet, special delivery.
Accepted by: Literary Review: Lewis and Clark College.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B2.135 | “Message for [from] Upstairs”
First Line: Look - these words all pull; each one.
Accepted by: Field.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B2.136 | “Message from Kathmandu for Kit’s Pet
Rabbit Cadillac”
First Line: Out in the little washes and gullies.
Accepted by: PTA Magazine.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B2.137 | “Miracles”
First Line: Remember waking up, the clouds of your feet.
Accepted by: Field.
|
June 1, 1976 |
B2.138 | “Moose Call”
First Line: A dead man says this: “Broad leaf home” - the world.
Accepted by: Dalmo’ma.
|
April 11, 1975 |
B2.139 | “A Morning”
First Line: From high tide in the night a dead.
Accepted by: Charles Street Journal.
|
August 1, 1970 |
B2.140 | “Mother Talking in the Porch
Swing”
First Line: Inside the river is there a river?.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B2.141 | “Mumbled Report on Our Trip”
First Line: Wherever I look now, it is.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
January 1, 1963 |
B2.142 | “Museum Pieces" (2 sheets, 4
sides)”
First Line: A man at the museum....
Accepted by: Genesis West.
|
July 12, 1959 |
B2.143 | “Muttered [Unpublished] Creed”
First Line: Never again for any glorious thing.
Accepted by: Fellowship.
|
December 3, 1946 |
B2.144 | “My Job [Lost]”
First Line: Lost for many days, a gray ship.
Accepted by: Poem.
|
October 1, 1966 |
B2.145 | “My Life”
First Line: This corridor through the air, shaped.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly.
|
December 1, 1974 |
B2.146 | “My Mother Looked Out in the
Morning”
First Line: Announced by an ax, Daniel Boone.
Accepted by: American Poets in 1976.
|
June 1, 1974 |
B2.147 | “My Name Will be Samoset”
First Line: Drive spikes into trees and climb.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
June 28, 1957 |
B2.148 | “Myth and Reason”
First Line: When Aristotle analyzed his dreams.
Accepted by: Antioch Review.
|
February 1, 1958 |
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Container(s): Box-folder Box 14/Folder B3
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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B3.1 | “Near Flathead Lake”
First Line: This land gives you back to the Indians.
Accepted by: Decal Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1965 |
B3.2 | “Near the Ghost Town of
Chitina”
First Line: The water that falls down this river will.
Accepted by: Back Door.
|
July 8, 1968 |
B3.3 | “New Friends”
First Line: They approach, odd times, any.
Accepted by: Granite.
|
April 1, 1972 |
B3.4 | “New Government Plant in
Colorado”
First Line: Smooth earth, numbered clouds.
Accepted by: December.
|
September 1, 1961 |
B3.5 | “Night Cries: A Legend”
First Line: After old rain babies crawled from the mud.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B3.6 | “1965 Blues”
First Line: Roots in the dirt, limbs in the weather.
Accepted by: Experiment.
|
May 1, 1962 |
B3.7 | “Nobody”
First Line: Quiet when I come home, you.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
November 1, 1976 |
B3.8 | “No Matter How Far”
First Line: Fish plot an island, animals.
Accepted by: Vanderbilt Poetry Review.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B3.9 | “No More School”
First Line: No more school: The landscape has turned.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B3.10 | “North of Imperia”
First Line: Napoleon could not capture the olive trees.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
August 1, 1969 |
B3.11 | “Not Being an Actor”
First Line: In the wild we find animals various as thought.
Accepted by: Talisman.
|
February 1, 1957 |
B3.12 | “Nothing to Be Carved on
Stone”
First Line: If lightning lasted, you might.
Accepted by: Southern California Review.
|
June 1, 1972 |
B3.13 | “Now Listen Here”
First Line: I’ve said it often, a yellowhammer.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
December 1, 1971 |
B3.14 | “Nuance, Oregon" [Two Towns in
Oregon]
First Line: Nuance, a ghost town that is now.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1964 |
B3.15 | “Oak”
First Line: When we heard the long wind coming home.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1971 |
B3.16 | “Oak Leaves”
First Line: Listen - from under this ice we speak.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B3.17 | “Old Barn”
First Line: Doors that the years have broken.
Accepted by: Stoney Lonesome.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B3.18 | “Old Friend”
First Line: We leaned back in the swing.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune Magazine.
|
December 1, 1968 |
B3.19 | “Old Hero”
First Line: The left is my lonely shoulder. Outside.
Accepted by: Salmagundi.
|
January 1, 1972 |
B3.20 | “Old Story”
First Line: I am that traveler they tell of.
Accepted by: Blue Moon.
|
November 1, 1976 |
B3.21 | “Old Summer”
First Line: One summer I learned to aim my dream.
Accepted by: Spring Rain.
|
February 1, 1972 |
B3.22 | “On a Bridge in Cairo”
First Line: A loafer puffs a cigarette.
Accepted by: Al-Ahram.
|
September 1, 1972 |
B3.23 | “On a Kite Our Son Left in
Alaska”
First Line: What we loosed pretended.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
October 1, 1968 |
B3.24 | “On an Autumn Walk”
First Line: No matter how high the woodpile.
Accepted by: Ohio University Review.
|
September 1, 1967 |
B3.25 | “On Duty Every Morning”
First Line: Outside in the cold with a little light.
Accepted by: Review La Booche.
|
September 1, 1975 |
B3.26 | “One’s Place”
First Line: Intent at one place on the earth is.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1973 |
B3.27 | “One Thing at a Time”
First Line: Ours is the faith that leaves mountains where they are.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1973 |
B3.28 | “One Who Brings This Report Has Alaska
With Him”
First Line: The way the world comes across a window.
Accepted by: Baby John.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B3.29 | “On Seeing “Massacre at Glencoe” - a
Picture in Scotland”
First Line: No one was more cruel than these.
Accepted by: Quarterly Review of Literature.
|
August 1, 1962 |
B3.30 | “On the Blind Bus”
First Line: Cool fog hands burst open.
Accepted by: Oregon College of Education.
|
December 1, 1968 |
B3.31 | “On the River”
First Line: These were the hours: we floated on .
Accepted by: Sumac.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B3.32 | “On the Trek”
First Line: Later the moth can follow the string.
Accepted by: Experiment and Poems from the Iowa Poetry Workshop
1951.
|
July 20, 1950 |
B3.33 | “Oregon”
First Line: Rain says etcetera, its.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
B3.34 | “Oregon”
First Line: Trees having their picture taken.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 19, 1972 |
B3.35 | “Oregon: A Report”
First Line: A state with see-through air.
Accepted by: Eastern Oregon Literary Supplement.
|
December 1, 1971 |
B3.36 | “Osprey Dream”
First Line: When fish leaped out of the lake, their.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
July 1, 1965 |
B3.37 | “Our Neighborhood”
First Line: Plat 40: A Avenue to F; eigth to Twelfth.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
June 1, 1959 |
B3.38 | “Our Story”
First Line: after the ink drink, off.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
February 1, 1971 |
B3.39 | “Our Study That Was Not
Rewarded”
First Line: Some day when the tigers blur.
Accepted by: Compass Review.
|
August 29, 1947 |
B3.40 | “Out in the Country”
First Line: You watch the grass. It crawls.
Accepted by: Counter Measures.
|
August 1, 1971 |
B3.41 | “Over the Miles”
First Line: The sun sank low on the prairies.
Accepted by: Cold Mountain Press postcard.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B3.42 | “Pace”
First Line: In space, on a sign they found floating by.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B3.43 | “Parents”
First Line: I remember their shadow on the wall.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1970 |
B3.44 | “Passage to Alaska”
First Line: Gray, gray, headland by headland north.
Accepted by: Three Sisters.
|
October 1, 1968 |
B3.45 | “Passing a Place”
First Line: A gray fish came near our ship.
Accepted by: San Francisco Review.
|
November 1, 1958 |
B3.46 | “Passports”
First Line: Through our country animals go.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
December 1, 1974 |
B3.47 | “Pathetic Fallacies”
First Line: Close to a marvelous cave a hand spreads wonder.
Accepted by: Striver’s Row.
|
July 1, 1973 |
B3.48 | “People and Libraries" [Lacturing the
Western Circuit 1]
First Line: Inside the book they talk.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
January 1, 1974 |
B3.49 | “To Say Any Day" [Lecturing the Western
Circuit 2]
First Line: In the morning for prayer.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
January 1, 1974 |
B3.50 | “Taking Off from Billings" [Lecturing the
Western Circuit 3]
First Line: A gaze for the cottonwoods, a glance.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
November 1, 1973 |
B3.51 | “People Get Lost”
First Line: Late at night while my car climbs the earth.
Accepted by: Sou’Wester.
|
July 1, 1957 |
B3.52 | “People Trotting in Oregon”
First Line: Lonely, making it wide, and quiet.
Accepted by: Daca.
|
January 1, 1968 |
B3.53 | “Perspective Near the Staenders’
Road”
First Line: At a scattering of stones on the plain.
Accepted by: Blue Fife.
|
February 1, 1975 |
B3.54 | “Philosophy Professor”
First Line: To intensify ownership, in dealing with colleagues.
Accepted by: University of Portland Review.
|
October 1, 1960 |
B3.55 | “Pictographs in Paiute Country: Hot
Springs”
First Line: Hunger are hands, my hunger hands.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
September 1, 1975 |
B3.56 | “Piece of Newspaper”
First Line: Report from The Capital.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 21, 1972 |
B3.57 | “Piece of Newspaper”
First Line: Report from the Capital.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 21, 1972 |
B3.58 | “Pioneer Story”
First Line: Now in the cold a stranger arrives.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
October 1, 1975 |
B3.59 | “Plan of the Cantos”
First Line: He heard the hummingbird.
Accepted by: Goodly Co.
|
January 1, 1967 |
B3.60 | “Plaque for a Minor College
Building”
First Line: The building you are in honors.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
January 1, 1966 |
B3.61 | “Poem for Beginning a Reading in
India”
First Line: News of the telephone - to talk and hear.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly.
|
October 1, 1972 |
B3.62 | “Poem to Me on My Birthday”
First Line: My parents were supposed to meet.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
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May 1, 1972 |
B3.63 | “Poet as a Young Man”
First Line: Sky sent snowflake to find him.
Accepted by: Steelhead.
|
March 1, 1970 |
B3.64 | “Freight”
First Line: Last night how slow the trains came, streets.
Accepted by: Portland Review.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B3.65 | “Posy”
First Line: Some people keep.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
September 20, 1944 |
B3.66 | “Prairie College: an Audit”
First Line: They have land and sky and courtesy.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B3.67 | “Priest Lake”
First Line: How rich we were, to know them, exiles.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1965 |
B3.68 | “Private Person”
First Line: You would think while the hours helped.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
B3.69 | “Public Speech”
First Line: Old Grandpa Ego and his lying rear trumpet.
Accepted by: Houyhnhmn’s Scrapbook.
|
September 1, 1954 |
B3.70 | “Quiet of the Land”
First Line: I feel a stone, therefore I am.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
|
February 1, 1975 |
B3.71 | “Quiet Poem”
First Line: Aside, quietly in the rain a few.
Accepted by: Morris Harvey College.
|
March 1, 1971 |
B3.72 | “Rainy When You’re Gone”
First Line: Early as rain I get up, walk into.
Accepted by: University of Montana.
|
June 1, 1972 |
B3.73 | “Reading Milton at the Ranch in the
Fall”
First Line: In the morning the rocks are.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B3.74 | “Reading and Writing on the
Farm”
First Line: After the stock sleeps, when the farm.
Accepted by: Seneca Review.
|
December 1, 1970 |
B3.75 | “Reading “The Golden
Treasury””
First Line: Today beyond the page where Sydney wrote.
Accepted by: Mississippi Review.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B3.76 | “Reflection”
First Line: Two mirrors met in an open space.
Accepted by: Meridian.
|
January 1, 1961 |
B3.77 | “Registering What Comes”
First Line: As well as I can, I will sort what.
Accepted by: Transition.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B3.78 | “Relative”
First Line: Clenched tightly in her.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B3.79 | “Religious Training and
Belief”
First Line: You shouldn’t go to war, my mother said.
Accepted by: University of Tampa Review.
|
May 1, 1960 |
B3.80 | “Remembering”
First Line: It is that night at the lake, the wind.
Accepted by: Cincinnati Poetry Review.
|
December 1, 1974 |
B3.81 | “Remembering a gong in
Calcutta”
First Line: Sunlight cut the street, one-half gold.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1972 |
B3.82 | “Report from the Wind Patrol”
First Line: They drift our country - flakes.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1967 |
B3.83 | “Report from Your Observer”
First Line: Sometimes it is one tree and early mist.
Accepted by: Today.
|
August 1, 1964 |
B3.84 | “Reporting the Neighborhood
Parade”
First Line: A march went by and then.
Accepted by: Oregon Times.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B3.85 | “Research [Assistants]”
First Line: In the darkened library we shine.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
September 1, 1975 |
B3.86 | “Returns”
First Line: To a desert morning I give my hand.
Accepted by: Hallmark Cards.
|
March 30, 1955 |
B3.87 | “Revolutionist’s Nightmare”
First Line: It is a place with brown.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B3.88 | “Riddle (typewriter)”
First Line: It is Pavlov; I’m the dog.
Accepted by: Meridian.
|
June 1, 1963 |
B3.89 | “Riddle (siren)”
First Line: My tall scream wavers through sleep.
Accepted by: South & West.
|
July 1, 1977 |
B3.90 | “Ritual”
First Line: Thunder lasted a long time, some.
Accepted by: Audience.
|
February 1, 1972 |
B3.91 | “Ritualing Again”
First Line: Struck hard high in their approach the geese.
Accepted by: Idaho Heritage.
|
November 1, 1975 |
B3.92 | “Rockefeller”
First Line: The son.
Accepted by: Genesis (Lewis & Clark).
|
January 1, 1962 |
B3.93 | “Rock That Belongs to the
Moon”
First Line: At the edge of a dried-up ocean, where.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
March 1, 1974 |
B3.94 | “Rodeo at Sisters, Oregon”
First Line: A horse named Earthquake.
Accepted by: Blue Fife.
|
June 1, 1974 |
B3.95 | “Roethke”
First Line: In crystal he failed.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
August 1, 1966 |
B3.96 | “Room 423”
First Line: Traped in our dim skins, we watch.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B3.97 | “Harold Row" (prose)
First Line: This man, people will forget....
Accepted by: Messenger.
|
September 1, 1970 |
B3.98 | “Running the Owyhee River”
First Line: Waiting for us for a million Years.
Accepted by: Tar River Poets.
|
July 1, 1970 |
B3.99 | “Run Sheep Run”
First Line: Once when we hid no one ever found us.
Accepted by: American Poets in 1976.
|
February 1, 1974 |
B3.100 | “Said in the Evening”
First Line: We almost always call when a day goes by.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
April 1, 1973 |
B3.101 | “Salt”
First Line: Remember the salt we spilled? You said.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
April 1, 1973 |
B3.102 | “Salvations”
First Line: What comes back saves you.
Accepted by: Gumbo.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B3.103 | “Santiam Pass”
First Line: On the ice road ahead of us a gravel truck.
Accepted by: Oregon Times.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B3.104 | “Saturdays Every September”
First Line: Saturdays every September we walked silvery.
Accepted by: Atlantic.
|
April 1, 1967 |
B3.105 | “Saying a Name”
First Line: Someone the far side of Neahkhanie Mountain.
Accepted by: American Poets in 1976.
|
July 1, 1974 |
B3.106 | “Saying Goodby”
First Line: At this time for singing we hear a thin.
Accepted by: Review La Booche.
|
October 1, 1975 |
B3.107 | “Say the World Had an Hour”
First Line: A deer crosses the road, and her fawn..
Accepted by: Oregon Times.
|
November 1, 1975 |
B3.108 | “Scandal Creek”
First Line: At West Wind, the YWCA camp.
Accepted by: West Coast Review.
|
September 1, 1965 |
B3.109 | “Scenario”
First Line: Wind says “Great Slave Lake” as it slides from here.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
March 1, 1963 |
B3.110 | “Scenario for My Mother”
First Line: One day she opens her hand, and.
Accepted by: Loon.
|
September 1, 1974 |
B3.111 | “Scene for Future History”
First Line: Here, in the latter days, there will be.
Accepted by: Ark River Review.
|
June 1, 1974 |
B3.112 | “Scene in the Back Country”
First Line: Yesterday history turned. A cable.
Accepted by: Alaska Review.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B3.113 | “Scholar" [Brewster Ghiselin]
First Line: The lockstep you move is wilder.
Accepted by: Blackbird Circle.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B3.114 | “Scholar" [Brewster Ghiselin]
First Line: The dance your life is.
Accepted by: The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of
Brewster Ghiselin.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B3.115 | “School Picnic”
First Line: That song burned on, after it ended. Cold.
Accepted by: Hart.
|
July 1, 1970 |
B3.116 | “Scott’s Novels”
First Line: Lest the heart refuse our time, sometimes.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
January 1, 1966 |
B3.117 | “Scramble”
First Line: Animals gave their gift.
Accepted by: Expedition (Lewis & Clark) .
|
November 1, 1958 |
B3.118 | “Script”
First Line: Befall this room be scene.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
October 1, 1958 |
B3.119 | “Seasons”
First Line: They come down still from the mountains.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
December 1, 1970 |
B3.120 | “Seeing”
First Line: Pictures form, find you; swerve.
Accepted by: Arena.
|
April 1, 1961 |
B3.121 | “Seeing It Coming”
First Line: It is only the season, one by one.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
November 1, 1975 |
B3.122 | “Seeking Schweitzer”
First Line: By pulse and fireflies I become.
Accepted by: Sketchbook.
|
September 1, 1963 |
B3.123 | “Several Dances”
First Line: A certain little dance when the right bee.
Accepted by: Granite.
|
September 1, 1971 |
B3.124 | “Shadows”
First Line: Is it a loon? - a cry.
Accepted by: Pacific Search.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B3.125 | “Shadows”
First Line: Out in places like Wyoming some of the shadows.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 1, 1969 |
B3.126 | “Shaniko”
First Line: The freight wagon road that ran here ended.
Accepted by: Quarterly Review of Literature.
|
January 1, 1964 |
B3.127 | “Sidelong”
First Line: The gift of space - that’s what.
Accepted by: For Richard Eberhart’s birthday.
|
December 1, 1973 |
B3.128 | “Sign at the Entrance to the
Stacks”
First Line: In this library is a book.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
August 1, 1973 |
B3.129 | “6:30 A.M.”
First Line: People who like each other stay.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
April 28, 1962 |
B3.130 | “Sleeping Dogs”
First Line: My vote hobbles to work and beats.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
B3.131 | “Slow”
First Line: There is a near torrent silent beyond.
Accepted by: Prairie Schooner.
|
January 1, 1964 |
B3.132 | “Snowflake at Vale”
First Line: Many came over the pass tonight.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
February 1, 1976 |
B3.133 | “Solitary Horseman”
First Line: On the way to Winnemucca.
Accepted by: Uzzano.
|
December 1, 1975 |
B3.134 | “Some Days in Washington”
First Line: Ice covered everything one morning - dead.
Accepted by: Lillabulero.
|
January 1, 1971 |
B3.135 | “Some Further Exploring”
First Line: Before you turn this page.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
March 1, 1973 |
B3.136 | “Someone’s Life”
First Line: Once, crossing an old mountain.
Accepted by: Green River Review.
|
August 1, 1975 |
B3.137 | “Someone You Know”
First Line: Arms out, I turn. Wires in each hand.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
February 2, 1976 |
B3.138 | “Some Say”
First Line: A face in the sky, some say, says “Rain”.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
February 1, 1975 |
B3.139 | “Some Things”
First Line: Some things.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
February 1, 1962 |
B3.140 | “Something I Do Not Say”
First Line: Once every autumn a storm shuts down.
Accepted by: Granite.
|
March 1, 1971 |
B3.141 | “Something Walter Clark Said”
First Line: Things end that were good.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
|
September 1, 1967 |
B3.142 | “Some Time Walking”
First Line: In some low mood you will stop. look down.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
November 1, 1975 |
B3.143 | “Song of Roland”
First Line: Often we have paid for all that vaunt.
Accepted by: L’Esprit.
|
February 1, 1959 |
B3.144 | “Song of Widows and Orphans”
First Line: Lincoln said, “Open hand”.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 29, 1975 |
B3.145 | “Sounds”
First Line: Simply, but loud, a sound says.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B3.146 | “Spaced Around”
First Line: Color goes limpid all over.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
July 2, 1950 |
B3.147 | “Spanish Guitar”
First Line: Coming to sudden account with the room.
Accepted by: Quarterly Review of Literature.
|
May 1, 1960 |
B3.148 | “Sparrow Country”
First Line: You could spend space like a jackrabbit.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
January 1, 1968 |
B3.149 | “Spirit of ‘75”
First Line: Far at the edge of our land.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
March 1, 1975 |
B3.150 | “Stampede at Calgary”
First Line: Afraid all the years we had saved would.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
October 1, 1960 |
B3.151 | “Staring Out of Fiction”
First Line: Only stand-ins in this play called you and me.
Accepted by: Bellingham Review.
|
April 1, 1976 |
B3.152 | “Starting a Reading at
Stephens”
First Line: Today in your town I saw a few birds.
Accepted by: Open Places.
|
December 1, 1976 |
B3.153 | “Statesmanlike Proposal”
First Line: We ought to have a Secretary for Wisdom.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
January 1, 1964 |
B3.154 | “Stop at Sewanee”
First Line: That day we heard so deep we.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
May 1, 1967 |
B3.155 | “Stories to Live By”
First Line: Earth is not stable enough to rely on.
Accepted by: Vanderbilt Poetry Review.
|
June 1, 1976 |
B3.156 | “Storm Haiku”
First Line: Bare trees tell the wind.
Accepted by: Margarine Maypole Oranoutang Express (Anonymous Owl
Press).
|
April 1, 1972 |
B3.157 | “Stranger”
First Line: A critic one summer told us the great vertical.
Accepted by: Wrighter.
|
August 1, 1964 |
B3.158 | “Stranger Not Ourselves”
First Line: We pass a stranger. who glances.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
December 1, 1966 |
B3.159 | “Straw Plant in Dry Dirt”
First Line: A glance aside.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
February 1, 1972 |
B3.160 | “Students”
First Line: They go burning by. Their sleeves.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
August 1, 1976 |
B3.161 | “Studying Dust”
First Line: Strange to make a track in the dust.
Accepted by: Granite.
|
December 1, 1971 |
B3.162 | “Successful Person”
First Line: Invent your life; assemble it by string.
Accepted by: Kenyon Review.
|
October 1, 1962 |
B3.163 | “Summer Bird Thoughts”
First Line: Several birds come together and sing.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
October 1, 1971 |
B3.164 | “Novels" [Summer Books]
First Line: Quiet they come, breathing homes.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
March 1, 1971 |
B3.165 | “Summer in the Tetons”
First Line: Past some of the peaks - noblesse oblige.
Accepted by: Idaho Heritage.
|
October 14, 1975 |
B3.166 | “Survivor”
First Line: Now, in this place, holding your .
Accepted by: Unmuzzled Ox.
|
January 1, 1976 |
B3.167 | “Sycamores”
First Line: Look at those leaves, being.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
May 1, 1970 |
B4: Typescripts for Uncollected Poems Published in Serials, Titles T-Y, 1960s-1970sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 14/Folder B4
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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B4.1 | “To Katherine”
First Line: Put this in a book.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1961 |
B4.2 | “To One Who Says “I Told You
So””
First Line: When time like a tornado strikes.
Accepted by: Cloud Marauder.
|
May 1, 1966 |
B4.3 | “Topics”
First Line: The remnant left on the moon that measures.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B4.4 | “To Share with Friends in Cincinnati -
Autumn 1974”
First Line: Birds in the winter trees will share.
Accepted by: Clifton.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B4.5 | “To Students at St Johns and Everywhere,
from Far-Off Oregon”
First Line: Sometimes it is the miles that.
Accepted by: Sketchbook (St John’s U).
|
December 1, 1964 |
B4.6 | “Totem”
First Line: Some kind of swirls - and I was born.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
March 1, 1956 |
B4.7 | “To That Girl in the Seventh
Grade”
First Line: That brief, bright look endured.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
July 1, 1965 |
B4.8 | “To the Warden”
First Line: Along a moonbeam path a moth comes.
Accepted by: Barataria.
|
March 1, 1974 |
B4.9 | “Program of Poems: Tracing
Sympathy”
First Line: Before a big rock in the swell.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1958 |
B4.10 | “Tracks”
First Line: A line of tracks may wander, slant.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B4.11 | “Tree”
First Line: This is a day for not telling where.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
|
December 1, 1976 |
B4.12 | “Trees”
First Line: We also serve. The wind.
Accepted by: Indiana Writes.
|
October 1, 1975 |
B4.13 | “Trees, Late Birds”
First Line: Dark among trees I stand.
Accepted by: Raven.
|
December 1, 1970 |
B4.14 | “Trust”
First Line: Now I will tell you something.
Accepted by: Cimarron.
|
November 1, 1974 |
B4.15 | “Truth Is the Only Way Home”
First Line: A few people that I’ve known knew I had to talk to them.
Accepted by: Commonweal.
|
June 10, 1956 |
B4.16 | “Teacher’s Lament”
First Line: Three hundred work days hath September.
Accepted by: Medford Tribune.
|
September 7, 1958 |
B4.17 | “Tennessee Circuit”
First Line: Sons of the statues in Tennessee.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
April 1, 1966 |
B4.18 | “Test You Do Not Have to Take”
First Line: To find inward: wherever the sky.
Accepted by: Ohio University Review.
|
May 1, 1968 |
B4.19 | “That Girl”
First Line: That girl was the truth one night.
Accepted by: Edge (NZ).
|
October 1, 1969 |
B4.20 | “That Voice of Many Tones”
First Line: A stranger says my name.
Accepted by: University of Tampa Literary Review.
|
July 1, 1958 |
B4.21 | “Then”
First Line: Something will happen. You will hold.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
May 1, 1972 |
B4.22 | “These Days”
First Line: All those waterfalls in a place like Rome.
Accepted by: Prism.
|
June 1, 1973 |
B4.23 | “These Times" (tr. of Quevedo)
First Line: I took a hard look at this land of mine.
Accepted by: Second Growth.
|
December 1, 1974 |
B4.24 | “This Ink”
First Line: This ink draws a child with a knife.
Accepted by: Encore.
|
June 1, 1976 |
B4.25 | “This Morning”
First Line: A phone rang and rang, but not.
Accepted by: Uzzano.
|
December 1, 1975 |
B4.26 | “This Room When Winter Comes”
First Line: Curtains drawn, I hear the storm walk on.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
July 1, 1973 |
B4.27 | “Those of Us Left”
First Line: Some of us Indians used to have leaves.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
June 1, 1973 |
B4.28 | “Those Others”
First Line: Beyond where we are is.
Accepted by: New Republic.
|
August 26, 1972 |
B4.29 | “Thought”
First Line: When I think I fall off the world.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
September 1, 1968 |
B4.30 | “Thoughts from Vacation”
First Line: Ceilings I have studied, and on them.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 16, 1972 |
B4.31 | “Three Looks Out of a Window”
First Line: Someone went by in the alley.
Accepted by: Lillabulero.
|
undated |
B4.32 | “Three Portraits”
First Line: When you remember Antigone did not want.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
October 1, 1964 |
B4.33 | “Three Prose Poems 1 (Like Crossing a
Bridge)”
First Line: At the end of any bridge....
|
January 1, 1974 |
B4.33 | “Three Prose Poems 2 (They Come
Home)”
First Line: They come home....
|
January 1, 1974 |
B4.34 | “Three Prose Poems 3 (Good
Day)”
First Line: All day forgotten....
|
December 1, 1973 |
B4.35 | “Three Prose Poems: There Are Many Things
Not to Know: These Poems Will Show You How”
First Line: At the end of any bridge, if you turn and go.
|
January 1, 1974 |
B4.36 | “Three Prose Poems: They Come
Home”
First Line: They come home,.
|
January 1, 1974 |
B4.37 | “Three Prose Poems: Good Day”
First Line: All day forgotten you labor, ignored.
|
December 1, 1973 |
B4.38 | “Three Talkers at a Cafe”
First Line: I don’t like places.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune.
|
September 1, 1962 |
B4.39 | “To a Fellow Poet, Ed Mayo”
First Line: We’ve hurried by deep, spun rivers.
Accepted by: Periphery.
|
January 1, 1965 |
B4.40 | “To All the Others”
First Line: Close to us here, but hidden, many beings.
Accepted by: Arts in Society.
|
January 1, 1972 |
B4.41 | “To a Teacher of Calligraphy”
First Line: You held nothing, or maybe a match.
Accepted by: “... Stained the Water Clear...” A Festschrift for
Lloyd J. Reynolds.
|
May 1, 1965 |
B4.42 | “Twelve Threads”
First Line: Birds in tapestry, red hearts for eyes.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1973 |
B4.43 | “Two Cold Rivers”
First Line: Two cold rivers meet in a cave. They.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
December 1, 1970 |
B4.44 | “Two Dreamers”
First Line: Because thought feels the round head.
Accepted by: Arlington Quarterly.
|
February 1, 1971 |
B4.45 | “Understanding”
First Line: In some land, no widow, no orphan, without.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
December 1, 1967 |
B4.46 | “Unknown”
First Line: World, where are we?” I whisper to it while it.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
August 1, 1975 |
B4.47 | “Unknown Beings”
First Line: Streaming through the air, wild for attention.
Accepted by: Three Rivers Poetry Journal.
|
August 9, 1972 |
B4.48 | “Utah Campfire”
First Line: Of course it is luck, whatever flame.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
June 1, 1973 |
B4.49 | “Vacant World”
First Line: You did not live in that city. The streets.
Accepted by: Literary Half-Yearly .
|
October 1, 1972 |
B4.50 | “Venture of Heaven”
First Line: When we awaken we often wonder.
Accepted by: Wrighter.
|
July 1, 1964 |
B4.51 | “Vespers”
First Line: I will take my life, make it.
Accepted by: Handbook.
|
May 1, 1976 |
B4.52 | “Vigil”
First Line: Chains of stars in sparkle search.
Accepted by: Raven.
|
December 1, 1958 |
B4.53 | “Violence: a Report on the
Media”
First Line: These little flickers of death have.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
July 1, 1968 |
B4.54 | “Waiting for Something”
First Line: With my life I am waiting for something.
Accepted by: Literary Cavalcade.
|
August 1, 1974 |
B4.55 | “Wait, River”
First Line: That good summer we crossed the Yukon.
Accepted by: Tuatara.
|
December 1, 1968 |
B4.56 | “Waking in the Midwest”
First Line: Some sound the trees hear.
Accepted by: Dacotah Territory.
|
September 1, 1969 |
B4.57 | “Walk to Chihuahua”
First Line: On the walk to Chihuahua Father Hidalgo.
Accepted by: Today.
|
August 1, 1964 |
B4.58 | “War Monuments”
First Line: Coventry makes it gutted church.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
September 1, 1962 |
B4.59 | “Watching a Storm”
First Line: Clouds the ocean dreams come.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
February 1, 1972 |
B4.60 | “Watching It”
First Line: Someone reaches out - time for another.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
October 1, 1973 |
B4.61 | “Water”
First Line: Water suffers to be divided, then.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
July 1, 1975 |
B4.62 | “Week End at Fort Rock”
First Line: Fade back into time.
Accepted by: Rogue River Gorge.
|
July 1, 1967 |
B4.63 | “Western”
First Line: There was a town out west of.
Accepted by: Quixote.
|
May 1, 1967 |
B4.64 | “What Brought These Riches Everywhere
Around?”
First Line: Three men the sun can’t recognize.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
November 1, 1961 |
B4.65 | “What the Trees Wait For”
First Line: When the clouds come back, hard.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
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December 1, 1974 |
B4.66 | “What You Do Is Important”
First Line: When Buddha was here, he cared.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
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May 1, 1971 |
B4.67 | “When Trampas Left”
First Line: He spoke nails through the door.
Accepted by: Crucible.
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December 1, 1971 |
B4.68 | “When We Looked Back”
First Line: The most present of all the watchers where we camped.
Accepted by: New Yorker.
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April 1, 1956 |
B4.69 | “Wherever Anything Can Turn, Thought Can
Turn”
First Line: One old farm at a time, winter is working south.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
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October 1, 1969 |
B4.70 | “Where They Went”
First Line: At first they thought it was snow.
Accepted by: Arts & Society.
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January 1, 1973 |
B4.71 | “Where to Read the Headlines”
First Line: The tall grass is marching - foxtail.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
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July 1, 1970 |
B4.72 | “Where We Are”
First Line: Silent and unseen, the wings touch.
Accepted by: Modern Poetry Studies.
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November 1, 1974 |
B4.73 | “Where You Are”
First Line: Listen: those high.
Accepted by: Audience.
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April 1, 1972 |
B4.74 | “Where Zero Lives, a Round”
First Line: Here where Zero lives, it has.
Accepted by: Poetry Texas.
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December 5, 1976 |
B4.75 | “Whiff”
First Line: She lived and grew. The wind said “When!”.
Accepted by: South & West.
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January 1, 1964 |
B4.76 | “Willows”
First Line: Every one.
Accepted by: Kansas Magazine.
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March 1, 1967 |
B4.77 | “Window to Let Pride Out”
First Line: This place by the fire we keep.
Accepted by: Nation.
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January 1, 1977 |
B4.78 | “Winter Stories”
First Line: Fields tell all they know.
Accepted by: Special Libraries.
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September 1, 1968 |
B4.79 | “With My Thanks, to a Black
Friend”
First Line: Lucky, just walking along the street, I.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
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September 1, 1970 |
B4.80 | “With New Friends on the
Beach”
First Line: Day scuffs by on the sand.
Accepted by: Reporting to Crazy Horse.
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August 1, 1971 |
B4.81 | “Whoever It Was Who Walked with
Me”
First Line: That was years ago and in the spring.
Accepted by: New Student Review (SUNY).
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February 14, 1963 |
B4.82 | “Why I Came Home”
First Line: I found the stones choking themselves.
Accepted by: Etc..
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September 1, 1967 |
B4.83 | “Wish for the Capitol”
First Line: Let the sun believe in these white stones.
Accepted by: The Reporter for Conscience’ Sake.
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October 1, 1970 |
B4.84 | “World When My Father Was
Young”
First Line: In his separate hat moving through.
Accepted by: Midwest Quarterly.
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December 1, 1971 |
B4.85 | “Writer Looks at Any Rock”
First Line: When Buddha tapped a stone.
Accepted by: Abraxas .
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September 1, 1969 |
B4.86 | “Writers: Our Cave”
First Line: Lighted by bat eyes, it leads.
Accepted by: Concerning Poetry.
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November 1, 1968 |
B4.87 | “Writing”
First Line: Words written on paper laid over.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
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July 27, 1972 |
B4.88 | “Writing Class: Cannon Beach”
First Line: It was only the sun being silent, outside.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
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June 1, 1974 |
B4.89 | “Yeah, They Hurt”
First Line: Sometimes the ends of my fingers.
Accepted by: Aim.
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August 1, 1969 |
B4.90 | “You Do What You Have to Do”
First Line: Along a way blazed on trees.
Accepted by: Chrysalis.
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February 1, 1959 |
B4.91 | “Your Face”
First Line: Putting out my hands, I hold.
Accepted by: Steelhead.
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December 1, 1970 |
D1: Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems, 1950s to 1970s, mostly 1970sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 15/Folder D1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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D1.1 | half-title
First Line: Attempts finally taken out of consideration.
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August 1, 1975 |
D1.2 | “Immortal lines”
First Line: In this.
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November 1, 1973 |
D1.3 | “Try this one”
First Line: Above the forest.
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March 1, 1972 |
D1.4 | “Dear--”
First Line: Remember that plan we all made.
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January 1, 1975 |
D1.5 | “Jet Lag”
First Line: For awhile when the world slowed.
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July 1, 1975 |
D1.6 | “Reasons for Silence”
First Line: People say mountains, but mountains.
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June 1, 1975 |
D1.7 | “Being No One”
First Line: To the many who measure me no one.
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June 1, 1975 |
D1.8 | “At the Writer’s Workshop”
First Line: See some good in everything”.
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November 1, 1973 |
D1.9 | “Pines”
First Line: Each needle counts toward the sky.
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July 1, 1974 |
D1.10 | “In Slow Time”
First Line: Trees of the royal mountains march.
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August 1, 1973 |
D1.11 | “River of Broadway”
First Line: These people who do not know you, they.
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December 1, 1973 |
D1.12 | untitled
First Line: it is necessary.
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September 1, 1974 |
D1.13 | untitled
First Line: You breathe where their breath touched the curtain.
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June 1, 1975 |
D1.14 | “Couldn’t We”
First Line: Fish in their weather they wear.
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June 1, 1975 |
D1.15 | “Walking the City”
First Line: So late even robbers are asleep.
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May 1, 1975 |
D1.16 | “Inhabitants”
First Line: They have whirled on: right.
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October 1, 1968 |
D1.17 | “Survey Course”
First Line: The way to have good history is to hire some people.
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December 1, 1974 |
D1.18 | “Wander Leaf”
First Line: Every autumn like this, on some still day.
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June 1, 1974 |
D1.19 | “Remember Kohoutek?”
First Line: What it flared was, “Old”.
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January 1, 1974 |
D1.20 | “Far Across the Sea”
First Line: By spaced and careful flakes we are .
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March 1, 1975 |
D1.21 | “They Put a Leaf Over It”
First Line: They put a leaf over it, a little.
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January 1, 1975 |
D1.22 | “Electric Eye on the Saigon
Road”
First Line: Mother, sister, sister, child, son.
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March 31, 1975 |
D1.23 | “Figuring Out What Is Wrong”
First Line: Your hair is getting long, but sometimes.
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April 1, 1972 |
D1.24 | “Taking the News”
First Line: If you could leave without arriving.
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March 16, 1975 |
D1.25 | “Standing in the Wind”
First Line: When all the rest ended, it was the river.
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December 1, 1974 |
D1.26 | “For the Album”
First Line: Under the muskrat ice our creek.
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February 1, 1975 |
D1.27 | “Looking Inward”
First Line: A cave that has a ghost, the last cave.
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January 1, 1975 |
D1.28 | “All-Purpose Press Release”
First Line: According to our plans on what to say.
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November 1, 1973 |
D1.29 | “Public Events”
First Line: You stand.
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April 1, 1968 |
D1.30 | “Day in January”
First Line: A little gray sound whets itself.
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January 1, 1975 |
D1.31 | “Rest of It”
First Line: and no one but Slide found.
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January 1, 1975 |
D1.32 | “Something”
First Line: It gleams in the earth, dirt.
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September 1, 1974 |
D1.33 | “Overhearing Two Angels”
First Line: It is so permanent.
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May 1, 1974 |
D1.34 | “Birthday Message for the
Shah”
First Line: A blue light hangs from the high ceiling.
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October 1, 1972 |
D1.35 | untitled
First Line: A star can cast a shadow past.
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December 1, 1974 |
D1.36 | “Couple I Knew”
First Line: Once they followed wood.
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October 1, 1974 |
D1.37 | “Jumper Cables”
First Line: Clamp at this end.
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January 1, 1973 |
D1.38 | “Wading the Yukon”
First Line: Once you touch that river.
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January 1, 1973 |
D1.39 | “Written in a Park in the
Capital”
First Line: The great who turn to stone, they are.
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November 1, 1974 |
D1.40 | “From an Old Satellite”
First Line: Myself now no one’s treasure, followed.
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September 1, 1974 |
D1.41 | “May Day”
First Line: It’s spring. A climbing rose has found.
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May 1, 1973 |
D1.42 | “Lucky Day”
First Line: Our road finds Fancy, that unseen.
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December 1, 1974 |
D1.43 | “Old One in the Hospital at
Fairbanks”
First Line: The linen in front of my eye--there is.
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October 1, 1974 |
D1.44 | “Walking the Forest”
First Line: Your world is the circling radius.
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September 1, 1974 |
D1.45 | “Leaf on the Road”
First Line: Truck on the road, one.
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May 1, 1971 |
D1.46 | “Strongest of all is what is””
First Line: One dust and one ray.
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undated |
D1.47 | “Alone”
First Line: With my thought I push a certain star.
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September 1, 1974 |
D1.48 | “Our Life”
First Line: We can give it away, this breath.
Published in: In the Clock of Reason.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.49 | “Looking into Lake Chinook”
First Line: In that deep frame we gaze.
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January 1, 1973 |
D1.50 | “Morning Report”
First Line: They say they kept the notes.
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January 1, 1974 |
D1.51 | “Ways Out”
First Line: God should never have tried to cage a .
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August 22, 1972 |
D1.52 | “Interlude”
First Line: Dark as night is, you accept.
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June 1, 1974 |
D1.53 | “Partly by What We Feel, We Begin to
Know”
First Line: Soon it will be bright, the air, God’s.
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August 1, 1974 |
D1.54 | “Late”
First Line: Mist on the window tonight.
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May 1, 1974 |
D1.55 | “At a Cambridge Lecture Room”
First Line: Every word he loosed.
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December 1, 1971 |
D1.56 | “With the Kids in Quonset
Park”
First Line: The world is that room predicted then.
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February 1, 1973 |
D1.57 | “From SS 514-07-1493”
First Line: At the test for continued freedom.
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January 9, 1973 |
D1.58 | “To a Son with the Gift of a
Compass”
First Line: Under a little light this gift.
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August 1, 1969 |
D1.59 | “untitled”
First Line: Who crosses the meadow will find.
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August 1, 1974 |
D1.60 | “Form for Letters to the
Editor”
First Line: 1. Topic.
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March 1, 1974 |
D1.61 | untitled
First Line: Some evening in the cloud west of Seattle.
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July 1, 1974 |
D1.62 | “Plato’s Thought But the Decisions of
Aristotle”
First Line: Philosopher kings? There never were.
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April 1, 1956 |
D1.63 | “Farewell to the Romantics
Class”
First Line: Where is our wonder? Beyond our answers.
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February 1, 1974 |
D1.64 | “List”
First Line: Days that I track down in.
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June 1, 1974 |
D1.65 | “Hollow Place in Stones”
First Line: When there was a world, once upon a time.
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October 1, 1973 |
D1.66 | “On a Picture of Bret and Kim”
First Line: The lost children look over a lake.
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June 1, 1973 |
D1.67 | “Leaf Raking”
First Line: Neighbor, one pulse between us from the still.
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September 1, 1973 |
D1.68 | “Easy-Going”
First Line: Many things brought me here.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.69 | “Goodby for a While”
First Line: With your mind silently.
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May 1, 1973 |
D1.70 | “Sending Up Smoke”
First Line: There’s a piper, they say, who can pipe away.
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May 1, 1974 |
D1.71 | “Author”
First Line: For those who praise my manners.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.72 | “Universal Valentine”
First Line: Let me grow old watching you.
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March 1, 1974 |
D1.73 | “Wilderness in Amherst”
First Line: I live here, walk around in.
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November 30, 1973 |
D1.74 | “Tree House”
First Line: A root all winter will be ready.
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March 1, 1974 |
D1.75 | “Happy Go Lucky”
First Line: We used to let the mountains alone, even.
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March 1, 1974 |
D1.76 | “In Space, In Time”
First Line: Who is that person by you.
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March 1, 1974 |
D1.77 | “Tunnel of Love”
First Line: A shadow sword--and the light is gone.
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November 1, 1973 |
D1.78 | “Thinking of the Crossing”
First Line: A silent river with.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.79 | “Local Defense”
First Line: This place has millions of worth, in things.
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June 1, 1974 |
D1.80 | “In the Morning”
First Line: Out there in tomorrow an island appears.
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October 1, 1973 |
D1.81 | “Listening to Music”
First Line: Listening to music, already you partly.
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January 1, 1974 |
D1.82 | “Free Citizens, Read This”
First Line: Certain unauthorized officials claim.
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March 1, 1966 |
D1.83 | “How to Provide”
First Line: By candlelight, surrounding dark.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.84 | “Bookmark to Slip Among the
Days”
First Line: Before daylight something touches my face.
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January 1, 1973 |
D1.85 | “Old Timer”
First Line: When my forehead found the West.
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November 1, 1973 |
D1.86 | “Estrangement”
First Line: When the rain came.
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January 1, 1969 |
D1.87 | “December”
First Line: Winter grabs a street. You hear it.
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May 1, 1970 |
D1.88 | “Sentence”
First Line: At airports where I wait, where.
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September 1, 1965 |
D1.89 | “Parents”
First Line: They come through here.
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January 1, 1974 |
D1.90 | “To My Children”
First Line: The circle of history has allowed itself.
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October 1, 1971 |
D1.91 | “Pride and Self-Possession”
First Line: The story that you are wise, that.
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March 1, 1972 |
D1.92 | “World of Words in Quotes”
First Line: What words they lend me I half.
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April 1, 1972 |
D1.93 | “In the Real World”
First Line: Think of magnesium men.
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October 1, 1971 |
D1.94 | “Lake Union”
First Line: This negative of the world, a reflecting.
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June 28, 1972 |
D1.95 | “Something to Mention”
First Line: A rabbit and I were nibbling a little piece of wood.
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July 1, 1973 |
D1.96 | “If No One Is There”
First Line: The bell that silently rings far through.
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September 1, 1973 |
D1.97 | “Around and Around and Around”
First Line: The world in its roll night after night.
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October 1, 1972 |
D1.98 | “They”
First Line: Even if they’re not expected they.
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October 1, 1973 |
D1.99 | “Way It Is”
First Line: Morning, the birds boiling over, far things.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.100 | “Cross Country”
First Line: What we do every day.
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April 1, 1968 |
D1.101 | “Picturesque”
First Line: The best scene--after a storm.
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October 1, 1973 |
D1.102 | “Looking Back”
First Line: Clouds drag shadows. I walk.
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May 1, 1973 |
D1.103 | “Road to Shiraz”
First Line: These mountains are their own winter.
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October 1, 1972 |
D1.104 | “Like It Is”
First Line: For our little part of forever.
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March 1, 1973 |
D1.105 | “Like It Is] In Memoriam:
E.I.S”
First Line: It’s inside rivers, a voice that.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.106 | “Like It Is”
First Line: What fell we called what falls.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.107 | “Over Near Bend”
First Line: Even in sleep you listen: if you.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.108 | “Good Day”
First Line: We let the puppies into the woods.
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September 1, 1972 |
D1.109 | title page
Up in Some Mountains Down in Some Caves--a collection of poems.
|
|
D1.110 | “Mountains”
First Line: Among clouds, a mountain got lost.
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October 1, 1971 |
D1.111 | “Every Day”
First Line: My hand walks up your arm and.
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March 1, 1973 |
D1.112 | “[Every Day] For Help”
First Line: My hand walks up your arm and.
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February 1, 1971 |
D1.113 | “Even Back Then”
First Line: It was gone in the morning, some sound.
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June 2, 1973 |
D1.114 | “If You Go Among Them”
First Line: When you go in--whatever they say.
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November 1, 1967 |
D1.115 | “Some Day”
First Line: Release will come, like seeing what lay.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.116 | “In a Strange Town”
First Line: Someone goes over, leans, and.
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March 29, 1973 |
D1.117 | “Nicholas”
First Line: A could-be being, right: he.
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May 1, 1973 |
D1.118 | “Looking at Lief and Nicholas”
First Line: From the gray in their faces their light gaze.
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April 1, 1973 |
D1.119 | “World”
First Line: It comes up to the door, and I hurry.
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June 1, 1972 |
D1.120 | “From the Study”
First Line: The shadow of the pen is ready before.
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January 1, 1973 |
D1.121 | “Born in January”
First Line: In September begins what summer forgot.
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September 1, 1971 |
D1.122 | untitled
First Line: All one moonlit night a bird.
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September 1, 1970 |
D1.123 | “This Year”
First Line: The hurt moon, by nothing but curve.
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February 1, 1970 |
D1.124 | “Knock at the Door”
First Line: Someone comes to the door, not a person.
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June 1, 1971 |
D1.125 | “Love at the Beach”
First Line: What implosion.
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July 1, 1974 |
D1.126 | untitled
First Line: The pigeons that clutter the barn.
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November 1, 1974 |
D1.127 | “Yes, That’s How”
First Line: When you sign on for Spaceship Earth.
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August 8, 1972 |
D1.128 | “Returns”
First Line: The salmon, frenzied upstream when.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.129 | “From a Tame Writer”
First Line: How quiet the tigers that live on tigers.
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May 1, 1967 |
D1.130 | “Wanting a Yardstick”
First Line: At times, accuracy gives way to other.
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September 1, 1968 |
D1.131 | “Peace”
First Line: If peace is indivisible, war is perpetual.
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undated |
D1.132 | “Lemmings”
First Line: They thrive, demanding: it is given.
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September 1, 1971 |
D1.133 | “Empathy”
First Line: We heard the gray paws.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.134 | “In the Desert”
First Line: Once you look up, this place becomes.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.135 | “Brave Old Lady”
First Line: She has taken her life and.
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October 1, 1971 |
D1.136 | “Lecturer”
First Line: All of them, he said, are like windows.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.137 | “At the Coast”
First Line: See the little children.
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August 1, 1971 |
D1.138 | “Former Life”
First Line: Permitted to trespass.
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May 1, 1967 |
D1.139 | “There Is a Weight in the
World”
First Line: There will be a tap at the door, but.
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July 4, 1972 |
D1.140 | “By an Altar”
First Line: When you got life, it was.
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October 1, 1972 |
D1.141 | “Patience”
First Line: Honking won’t straighten the road.
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May 1, 1967 |
D1.142 | “Catullus LXXII”
First Line: A little fist or baby hand, some kind of.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.143 | “At Morgan’s Leap”
First Line: Far true bells ring through the woods.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.144 | “Sorry I’m Late”
First Line: Clock, I take it all back.
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May 1, 1972 |
D1.145 | “Riddle from the Ealdworde
MS.”
First Line: So came I then, caught but.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.146 | “Trees”
First Line: Tall, alone, each holds.
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March 1, 1971 |
D1.147 | “My Friends My Enemies My Lonely
Hours”
First Line: Late, in the deep hours awake for someone to help.
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February 1, 1972 |
D1.148 | “Windows”
First Line: There are sounds you would like to be able to see.
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April 1, 1968 |
D1.149 | “Deep Look”
First Line: A man thought a river. Where it.
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September 1, 1971 |
D1.150 | “Denial”
First Line: No, only to you, flat rocks in the mountains.
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January 1, 1972 |
D1.151 | “Link”
First Line: This rock and that star have a story.
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December 1, 1970 |
D1.152 | “On the Coast”
First Line: While gulls complain we turn over a stone.
Published in: Sometimes Like a Legend.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.153 | “Meanwhile”
First Line: Close here, before the fur tap at the door.
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September 9, 1969 |
D1.154 | “Card at the Front Door”
First Line: If atoms play.
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September 1, 1971 |
D1.155 | “To Steve”
First Line: Every autumn when the rain is reaching.
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October 1, 1970 |
D1.156 | “Ralph the Assassin”
First Line: After footsteps pass in an ampty room.
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October 1, 1971 |
D1.157 | “Late, Late”
First Line: Suddenly through the walls last night.
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July 1, 1971 |
D1.158 | “In the Wide Quiet”
First Line: Far north where the radar spins, guards hear their ears.
Published in: Scripture of Leaves.
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September 1, 1969 |
D1.159 | “Throwing Away a Watch”
First Line: Beneath a tree in this autumn.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.160 | “Birds”
First Line: A father had a son, and home.
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October 1, 1970 |
D1.161 | “At a Party”
First Line: You dig dogs? I do.
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January 1, 1971 |
D1.162 | “Siberian Husky”
First Line: Not by a word or any sound, but in a turn.
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March 1, 1971 |
D1.163 | untitled
First Line: When Einstein entered the zoo at Hamburg.
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July 1, 1971 |
D1.164 | “On Our Planet”
First Line: When you go into a cave and.
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April 1, 1968 |
D1.165 | “Here”
First Line: A window has winked every day.
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May 1, 1971 |
D1.166 | “Down at the Coast”
First Line: A stranger through here at night.
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August 1, 1970 |
D1.167 | “Public Speakers”
First Line: When they came to the world they.
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February 1, 1971 |
D1.168 | “Exiles”
First Line: When Dante, bitter, ate the bread.
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December 1, 1970 |
D1.169 | “While We Hold Still”
First Line: Now in the cold islands, last year.
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December 1, 1970 |
D1.170 | “Picture Man”
First Line: One time I happened along the shadows.
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February 1, 1970 |
D1.171 | “Reading Augustine’s
Confessions”
First Line: Agile, the young Hippo, admired by Grace.
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August 1, 1969 |
D1.172 | “Reading Augustine’s
Confessions”
First Line: Agile, the young Hippo, admired by Grace.
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August 1, 1969 |
D1.173 | “Small in the World”
First Line: I have a friend named Fear.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.174 | “When the Years Turn Around”
First Line: My mouth turns for this call: a time that was.
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March 1, 1971 |
D1.175 | “At Cumae”
First Line: No moth felt that air, the cave mouth.
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March 1, 1971 |
D1.176 | “In the Middle”
First Line: That man I was (he lives) will.
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May 1, 1970 |
D1.177 | “My Country”
First Line: Just beyond Jerk you.
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December 1, 1969 |
D1.178 | “For a Guest Book”
First Line: Part of what keeps the years from collapsing.
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January 1, 1971 |
D1.179 | “You”
First Line: Now, letting it be light, the trees.
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December 1, 1970 |
D1.180 | “Praying by the Ocean”
First Line: While waves vote the beach.
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October 1, 1970 |
D1.181 | “Remembering Pastoral”
First Line: Near the sound one of those unnamed.
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October 1, 1970 |
D1.182 | “Over Thirty”
First Line: They all say please.
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September 1, 1967 |
D1.183 | “Counseling”
First Line: It took slow words to pass that.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.184 | “First Faculty Meeting in the New
Library”
First Line: The new room echoed. Come there to fight.
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October 1, 1967 |
D1.185 | “Mission of X4”
First Line: The knicks in the boards, the sounds of their heels.
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September 1, 1969 |
D1.186 | “Last Visit”
First Line: Nothing left for us, winter.
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January 1, 1966 |
D1.187 | “Episode”
First Line: We went out one night when the big tree sang.
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January 1, 1970 |
D1.188 | “Wind for a Friend”
First Line: We heard the hurt wind console the ruined wall.
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August 1, 1967 |
D1.189 | “Waking After a Vacation Trip”
First Line: Halfway through the mountains where.
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August 1, 1969 |
D1.190 | “Note, referring to “Language of the
Common People” and “Trustees of the College””
First Line: These were in the published stack....
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June 3, 1970 |
D1.191 | “Language of the Common
People”
First Line: At the seminar in Wordsworth a man said to me .
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September 28, 1950 |
D1.192 | “Trustees of the College”
First Line: In the hall they named for Templeton.
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May 1, 1959 |
D1.193 | “At the Pool Under the Falls”
First Line: That quick to know.
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September 1, 1971 |
D1.194 | “For Wallace Stevens”
First Line: He celebrates what celebrates, a party.
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August 2, 1972 |
D1.195 | “What We Brought from Mexico”
First Line: Wing-spatter pigeons leave those late.
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May 1, 1968 |
D1.196 | “Repetitions”
First Line: Once a stutterer, his error owing to love.
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April 1, 1960 |
D1.197 | “Stegosaurus had two
brains...”
First Line: Tranced when that last morning came.
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September 1, 1962 |
D1.198 | “Portrait of a Good Man”
First Line: Compelled by Dayy and the careful plates of money.
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December 1, 1953 |
D1.199 | “Math”
First Line: The mine you think about.
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September 1, 1961 |
D1.200 | “Either Way”
First Line: A man looked into a telescope.
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November 1, 1959 |
D1.201 | “Lover’s Politics”
First Line: Even a furtive heroism can hobble.
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April 1, 1955 |
D1.202 | “Teacher’s Apology to a
Parent”
First Line: This term your daughter woke into the bell-.
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June 1, 1961 |
D1.203 | “Sufferer”
First Line: Tell you what, that tough poet.
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September 1, 1962 |
D1.204 | “Hart Crane”
First Line: He tried to leap and wait in mid-.
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August 1, 1960 |
D1.205 | “Dante at Ravenna”
First Line: The wood around him lost its way.
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January 1, 1964 |
D1.206 | “Heading North”
First Line: We take spring with us and.
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July 1, 1968 |
D1.207 | “Seasons”
First Line: You whirl again, find an arrow.
|
June 1, 1966 |
D1.208 | “Back Home”
First Line: No one pursued the scaredest.
|
February 1, 1966 |
D1.209 | “Trying to Remember the Moon While We Walk
on It”
First Line: Not real, but there.
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June 1, 1972 |
D1.210 | “Communion Among the Piranha”
First Line: It sank. They came. Dispersed. The world.
|
March 1, 1975 |
D1.211 | “Old Dance”
First Line: Anyone here know the old dance.
Published in: Winterward.
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October 11, 1952 |
D1.212 | “tr. of Estelles”
First Line: Comes Death limping on her broken bone.
|
undated |
D1.213 | “Sitting on a Bus by a Silent
Traveler”
First Line: Around this echo, we build a cave.
|
March 1, 1975 |
D1.214 | “End of a Writer’s Conference”
First Line: Let’s go sing at that cave in the mountains.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.215 | “Vocation of Telling”
First Line: Who is going to tell the story--will you?.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.216 | “Reading Assignment”
First Line: Translate from sound and make an intelligible.
|
June 1, 1976 |
D1.217 | “Spin, Spin”
First Line: Among the thoughts you are about to have.
|
February 1, 1977 |
D1.218 | “Try It”
First Line: Try it outward: eyes closed--nothing.
|
January 1, 1977 |
D1.219 | “Some Trees”
First Line: In the center of.
|
July 1, 1971 |
D1.220 | “At the Last”
First Line: At the last it’s over.
|
June 1, 1976 |
D1.221 | “Surviving a Thunderstorm”
First Line: The way it holds off and stays the same.
|
August 1, 1975 |
D1.222 | “Another Way to Run”
First Line: Across our meadow--it is near.
|
May 1, 1976 |
D1.223 | “Someone I Thought Of”
First Line: Once when I woke day just.
|
March 1, 1976 |
D1.224 | “Reaching”
First Line: It doesn’t have to be mine to exist.
|
March 1, 1976 |
D1.225 | “One of those Mornings”
First Line: Whether the house is pretty.
|
June 1, 1976 |
D1.226 | “Their Names”
First Line: Sally Scream had a dream: laughter.
|
January 1, 1977 |
D1.227 | “For Her”
First Line: In the desert by a bush.
|
January 1, 1975 |
D1.228 | “You’ll See”
First Line: Outside this room where you are, a weird world.
|
January 1, 1976 |
D1.229 | “Wildcat”
First Line: She was gone of course, not a dream.
|
September 1, 1976 |
D1.230 | “Re-Doing the News”
First Line: The camera was facing the wrong way.
|
January 1, 1977 |
D1.231 | “WQFM”
First Line: The cheerful announcer says cold, says.
|
January 1, 1977 |
D1.232 | untitled
First Line: Today I wanted more than came to me--friends.
|
February 1, 1977 |
D1.233 | “Riding Across Hutchinson with my Kamikaze
Aunt”
First Line: This old car--runs too fast. I can’t.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.234 | “You’ve Seen It from Lake
Cheyenne”
First Line: There is a groove in the grass.
|
April 1, 1976 |
D1.235 | “Reminder Stone”
First Line: All who pass, pause.
|
August 1, 1973 |
D1.236 | “Rain Blew Upward Under the
Eaves”
First Line: At the door, disguised as No One.
|
April 2, 1975 |
D1.237 | “Cleaning and Pressing”
First Line: Frank: For them I was the white shirt behind.
|
November 1, 1974 |
D1.238 | “High Thinking Back Home”
First Line: Some thoughts have hats.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.239 | “Kansas Statement”
First Line: Around here, any room is a little room.
|
November 9, 1976 |
D1.240 | “Overheard on Fleet Street”
First Line: In Western towns they speak to one.
|
November 1, 1976 |
D1.241 | “Letter to Yeats from Kansas”
First Line: Hawk, slow hawk, and the little sparrow.
|
November 1, 1974 |
D1.242 | “Railroad Double-Talk”
First Line: In the first place the locomotive, hustle.
|
December 1, 1976 |
D1.243 | “What the Old Town Says”
First Line: Open was the summer window.
|
August 1, 1975 |
D1.244 | “Walk with Dorothy After a Sad
Story”
First Line: The pen stops at a shadow; Little Nell’s death.
|
November 1, 1974 |
D1.245 | “tr. of Montaner (The Final
Hours)”
First Line: To be there at the fall of the very last leaves.
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undated |
D1.246 | “Predictability”
First Line: We count the bushes, evenly scattered.
|
May 1, 1976 |
D1.247 | “Strangeness”
First Line: Shadows need other than shadow, a flash.
|
December 1, 1976 |
D1.248 | “Exile”
First Line: It was nothing like a garden.
|
June 1, 1976 |
D1.249 | “Glimpses”
First Line: You look down a track. Where sun.
|
March 1, 1976 |
D1.250 | “Any Clear Night”
First Line: The slow talk of the stars, each one.
|
December 1, 1975 |
D1.251 | “Meadow”
First Line: It’s a roller coaster downhill at night, the meadow.
|
August 1, 1976 |
D1.252 | “Meeting Someone”
First Line: A crowded room--you enter: nobody.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.253 | “Any Day”
First Line: Mornings or evenings you can put hands on.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.254 | “Equations”
First Line: X times I called.
|
October 1, 1976 |
D1.255 | “Headed Home”
First Line: A car on the freeway last night.
|
July 1, 1976 |
D1.256 | “At the Firies and the
Snuffies”
First Line: They didn’t say anything, but those plants.
|
December 1, 1976 |
D1.257 | “Dear World”
First Line: There are many messages needed.
|
November 1, 1976 |
D1.258 | “Coincidence”
First Line: One night a tree was having a dream.
|
December 1, 1975 |
D1.259 | “Been Missing You”
First Line: It’s work, breathing alone.
|
May 1, 1976 |
D1.260 | “Casper Conference”
First Line: Carry home from here this funny picture.
|
October 1, 1976 |
D1.261 | “October”
First Line: That rabbitbrush this.
|
October 1, 1976 |
D1.262 | “I Always Hoped the World Would Come
True”
First Line: At Chicago while the convention was meeting, an.
|
October 1, 1976 |
D1.263 | “Arctic”
First Line: In the north all winter the dust.
|
December 1, 1975 |
D1.264 | “At a Place on the Map”
First Line: If you will go to the last birch tree.
|
October 1, 1975 |
D1.265 | “Thinking of Salt”
First Line: Salt says its part, what it says.
|
October 1, 1975 |
D1.266 | “Ghost Town”
First Line: This violent town once loved.
|
December 1, 1974 |
D1.267 | “Aware”
First Line: Near but unknown, this side of.
|
November 1, 1976 |
D1.268 | “Cro-Magnon”
First Line: They fled before the sleet.
|
July 1, 1976 |
D1.269 | “Company Town”
First Line: A plume from a smokestack is a graceful thing.
|
January 1, 1976 |
D1.270 | “Last Day of Vacation”
First Line: Between ground and fog.
|
September 1, 1976 |
D1.271 | “Soccer”
First Line: Like a radio inside following, turning.
|
July 1, 1976 |
D1.272 | “How to Live”
First Line: Down the walk where sunlight is.
|
May 1, 1976 |
D1.273 | “Traveler”
First Line: When you see a forest, that drag.
|
June 1, 1976 |
D1.274 | “Without Wounding Anyone”
First Line: If in your thought I could speak.
|
January 1, 1976 |
D1.275 | “Walking Alone”
First Line: It will all stay there when I’m gone, back along.
|
February 1, 1976 |
D1.276 | “Back into Harness”
First Line: On the last day of summer, forced.
|
September 1, 1975 |
D1.277 | “Junior High”
First Line: “Lock”--that sound--would end the day.
|
February 1, 1966 |
D1.278 | untitled
First Line: To have said it.
|
March 1, 1976 |
D1.279 | “Crossing the Border”
First Line: Tasting names, down through.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.280 | “Some Notes on Space”
First Line: Not born enough, we labor on.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.281 | “Tasty Poem" (English and
Spanish)
First Line: If there is bread.
|
November 1, 1973 |
D1.282 | “Writing”
First Line: I do not know what.
|
November 1, 1971 |
D1.283 | “Ms. Poem”
First Line: It is Ms. Poem vs. Ms. Type.
|
December 1, 1975 |
D1.284 | “Hearing Billy Graham”
First Line: A see-through personality.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.285 | “That Kind of World”
First Line: When people call for you you don’t.
|
September 1, 1975 |
D1.286 | “Trouble with Being Alive”
First Line: Tangle with time, you right away have.
|
July 31, 1975 |
D1.287 | “Safety”
First Line: Those trains we heard, along the track.
|
July 1, 1975 |
D1.288 | “Locating Sorrow”
First Line: In the neck the Atlas bone.
|
February 1, 1975 |
D1.289 | “McLuhan Blues”
First Line: Newz where it at, new education.
|
December 1, 1975 |
D1.290 | “Something to Keep”
First Line: No shadow after-everything carries.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.291 | “At Three Creeks Lake”
First Line: Sawed end of a log--eye.
|
January 1, 1967 |
D1.292 | “Reflection”
First Line: If Pavlov’s right all.
|
September 1, 1969 |
D1.293 | “Questioning”
First Line: When I look out in the morning.
|
March 1, 1974 |
D1.294 | “Hearing a Record”
First Line: One part goes on, deep and slow, and one.
|
March 1, 1976 |
D1.295 | “Autumn in the Mountains”
First Line: Now clouds come over. In the deep forest.
|
October 1, 1973 |
D1.296 | “Speaking in Tongues”
First Line: Goodby, Rover.
|
October 1, 1974 |
D1.297 | “Listen”
First Line: You have a contract with the sun. Read it over.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.298 | “Looking Away”
First Line: Many hours looking at the fire.
|
November 1, 1975 |
D1.299 | “In Florence”
First Line: GiOttO drew a big O freehand.
|
July 1, 1976 |
D2: "Tired Poems and Their Wanderings": Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems, 1950sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 16/Folder D2
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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D2.1 | “We Knew by the Tracks”
First Line: Out of our clearing a weasel or mink.
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August 1, 1957 |
D2.2 | “Now, or Years from Now”
First Line: The mountain we are on.
|
December 1, 1957 |
D2.3 | “Quiet Hour”
First Line: It is in candle stillness wise.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.4 | “Nevertheless, the Dark”
First Line: Opening an eye.
|
October 1, 1958 |
D2.5 | “In Atlantis”
First Line: No one could manage the sky.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.6 | “Knowing”
First Line: To gain the close fury of knowing.
|
February 1, 1959 |
D2.7 | “Facts of Married Life”
First Line: Everyone’s wife usually .
|
August 1, 1958 |
D2.8 | “What the River Told the Land”
First Line: From here to any rock.
|
February 1, 1959 |
D2.9 | “Empathy”
First Line: We know well the tiger hid.
|
September 1, 1959 |
D2.10 | “Beyond”
First Line: Everything is the color eyes want it to be.
|
January 1, 1955 |
D2.11 | “Too Big”
First Line: The light things escape flying up.
|
October 7, 1947 |
D2.12 | “Double-Bit”
First Line: This axe flashing through tree shade.
|
August 20, 1952 |
D2.13 | “Adjustment”
First Line: Walking along I feel some rein.
|
May 1, 1956 |
D2.14 | “Continuous”
First Line: One gentle way we know the earth.
|
March 1, 1957 |
D2.15 | “Human Declaration”
First Line: Beside a neutral view.
|
August 1, 1960 |
D2.16 | “Allegiance”
First Line: Whatever you said, Father.
|
September 1, 1960 |
D2.17 | “Crisis”
First Line: Two mirrors met in an open space.
|
October 1, 1960 |
D2.18 | “Reflections on a Centennial”
First Line: What the journey meant.
|
February 1, 1959 |
D2.19 | “At the Park”
First Line: Back of the proud white geese.
|
October 10, 1951 |
D2.20 | “In New York”
First Line: The sky that vaults this river.
|
July 1, 1953 |
D2.21 | “Quakers”
First Line: While a redbird sings over our street.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.22 | “Study in Tone”
First Line: That one tone the dove says.
|
June 1, 1958 |
D2.23 | “Scripture Way”
First Line: Jesus lived the way we sing.
|
May 1, 1958 |
D2.24 | “Our Phrasing Slights Our
Life”
First Line: Some kind of arrow that brings health.
|
September 1, 1958 |
D2.25 | “In Praise of Feet”
First Line: The feet know where we are.
|
November 1, 1957 |
D2.26 | “Paul’s Place”
First Line: Paul’s place will stand long strokes of hard wind.
|
March 1, 1953 |
D2.27 | “Toward Dark”
First Line: To say a little word--say, Death--.
|
December 1, 1956 |
D2.28 | “For the School Slates of My
Sons”
First Line: What if the round reward for work.
|
June 1, 1958 |
D2.29 | “Caution Song”
First Line: Bears do not like to hear children sing.
|
September 1, 1958 |
D2.30 | “Old Man”
First Line: Back of the clock dust whispers.
|
October 1, 1958 |
D2.31 | “Class Day”
First Line: It is my day’s duty to find less hurt.
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October 1, 1954 |
D2.32 | “Try Not to Learn”
First Line: Bite the world for wisdom.
|
July 1, 1958 |
D2.33 | “For This While”
First Line: Every listener begs from sound.
|
September 11, 1958 |
D2.34 | “Now Lurking in Blue”
First Line: Lurking in Time, the cobalt boat came out.
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April 1, 1956 |
D2.35 | “Belief in Demons”
First Line: Victims of their brilliance.
|
May 1, 1956 |
D2.36 | “While They Talk”
First Line: One time for me was a near thing.
|
September 1, 1958 |
D2.37 | “At the Big Reunion”
First Line: Friends, it has come to this.
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November 1, 1957 |
D2.38 | “Walking”
First Line: Where your feet go, down on the real help.
|
September 1, 1956 |
D2.39 | “Storm God”
First Line: He held three spans of lightning.
|
March 1, 1956 |
D2.40 | “Through the Aquarium”
First Line: This is the way we know things-- never sure.
|
August 1, 1956 |
D2.41 | “Enisled by Fear”
First Line: In the dark we need a light.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.42 | “Our Parents”
First Line: With reverence for.
|
June 16, 1950 |
D2.43 | “To the North Wind”
First Line: Inhale is from the world.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.44 | “Passerby”
First Line: Dawned from far back, sad faces go by me.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.45 | “Need for Certain Land”
First Line: My ninth year came the storm.
|
November 1, 1957 |
D2.46 | “Churches”
First Line: In their invented stillness.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D2.47 | “Doughnut Way”
First Line: We read the new- the doughnut- way.
|
August 1, 1956 |
D2.48 | “Final Sound”
First Line: A lie has the truth of its vehemence.
|
June 6, 1954 |
D2.49 | “Irrelevance”
First Line: When the absollute people come.
|
February 1, 1957 |
D2.50 | “Tree at Home”
First Line: It isn’t very far, place to hide.
|
January 1, 1956 |
D2.51 | “Touching Oars”
First Line: On rocks the sea commanded where surf scoured.
|
October 1, 1955 |
D2.52 | “Foreigner at the Super
Market”
First Line: I stared after him, him humming “Danny Boy”.
|
August 1, 1956 |
D2.53 | “Along the Hoe Handle”
First Line: Along the hoe handle I often gaze.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.54 | “Gossip Column”
First Line: Her talk in balloons over her.
|
November 1, 1956 |
D2.55 | “Credo”
First Line: Curve is always and everywhere.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D2.56 | “Night Cruise”
First Line: Our boat slammed all night in the channel.
|
August 1, 1954 |
D2.57 | “Our Daughter in April Woods”
First Line: Reckless in the April woods.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.58 | “Against Determinism”
First Line: If I choose, they say it is only the world choosing.
|
March 1, 1954 |
D2.59 | “Injustice”
First Line: An ant lost in the grass puts feelers on.
|
September 1, 1957 |
D2.60 | “Maternity Ward”
First Line: By iodine light in that room of worn magazines.
|
February 1, 1957 |
D2.61 | “Wild One”
First Line: Had I been a local man.
|
December 1, 1957 |
D2.62 | “Leaf”
First Line: Even watching a willow.
|
February 1, 1957 |
D2.63 | “Condolences”
First Line: We heard (air wavers on fir tips.
|
September 1, 1957 |
D2.64 | “Trace, My Dog”
First Line: Trace my dog, the hand a wind puts on your nose.
|
February 1, 1956 |
D2.65 | “In Spring, in Pith, on Ponds”
First Line: Heather and air.
|
February 1, 1958 |
D2.66 | “History”
First Line: You follow a thread. It fails.
|
December 1, 1957 |
D2.67 | “Stone from the Holy Land”
First Line: On that retroactive road.
|
January 1, 1956 |
D2.68 | “Final Report”
First Line: The two parts of the sky, broken to possible halves.
|
April 21, 1956 |
D2.69 | “Timid Talk”
First Line: When we talked our pattern out.
|
October 1, 1956 |
D2.70 | “Life More Various Than Law”
First Line: Town turning to look at yourself on the hill.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.71 | “To Tangible Hell”
First Line: Those whose lives are a campaign .
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.72 | “I Will Remember the Ways””
First Line: Along Sunday morning streets.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D2.73 | “Races”
First Line: In the tribute lane on the Camino.
|
October 1, 1956 |
D2.74 | “At Grand Central Station”
First Line: You won’t see in the schedule, mister, whether.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D2.75 | “Freezing Point”
First Line: Where flakes become there is no time.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D2.76 | “Sent to Read This Land”
First Line: Rushing up to intruders like a dog.
|
December 1, 1953 |
D2.77 | “In Public Tombs”
First Line: In public tombs where heroes lie.
|
January 1, 1956 |
D2.78 | “New Time”
First Line: To spin around the world in this kind of room.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D2.79 | “Quiet Gift”
First Line: Years with humble feet on the worn stair.
|
February 25, 1954 |
D2.80 | “Flight from Denver”
First Line: Time is over that pass.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.81 | “Sacked Grad Asst”
First Line: Sang in that eastern school but not for long.
|
April 17, 1951 |
D2.82 | “In Our Bent Mirror”
First Line: Criss-cross on campus.
|
December 31, 1950 |
D2.83 | “Years Ago”
First Line: The Company sent Father years ago.
|
July 26, 1950 |
D2.84 | “Kids”
First Line: I heft their little bodies.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D2.85 | “Professor at the Game”
First Line: By lending at need all over I spend.
|
April 1, 1956 |
D2.86 | untitled
To Virginia Quarterly Review....
|
December 8, 1958 |
D2.87 | untitled
To Commonweal.
|
February 27, 1960 |
D2.88 | untitled
New Mexico Quarterly
|
November 25, 1960 |
D2.89 | untitled
Motive.
|
December 17, 1960 |
D2.90 | untitled
Northwest Review.
|
August 9, 1960 |
D2.91 | untitled
Sent to Dick Stern.
|
May 14, 1956 |
D2.92 | untitled
Following poems to Antioch Review.
|
June 17, 1958 |
D2.93 | untitled
To Atlantic.
|
June 18, 1956 |
D2.94 | untitled
Northwest Review.
|
January 6, 1959 |
D2.95 | untitled
Following two poems to Kenyon Review.
|
June 12, 1958 |
D2.96 | untitled
Paris Review.
|
October 6, 1956 |
D2.97 | untitled
Poems for “New Poems”.
|
April 18, 1957 |
D2.98 | untitled
Sent to John Ciardi.
|
May 28, 1956 |
D2.99 | untitled
To Sewanee Review.
|
December 1, 1956 |
D2.100 | untitled
Sent to Liberation.
|
August 11, 1956 |
D2.101 | untitled
Sent to New Mexico Quarterly.
|
June 19, 1956 |
D2.102 | untitled
Sent to Hudson Review.
|
June 13, 1956 |
D2.103 | untitled
Sent to Ray West.
|
December 3, 1955 |
D2.104 | untitled
To Good Housekeeping.
|
September 27, 1956 |
D2.105 | untitled
Sent to Talisman.
|
October 1, 1956 |
D2.106 | untitled
To Poetry.
|
June 28, 1956 |
D2.107 | untitled
Sent to Paul Engle.
|
February 1, 1956 |
D2.108 | untitled
Following poems to New World Writing.
|
October 22, 1957 |
D2.109 | untitled
FSent to New Yorker.
|
September 17, 1956 |
D2.110 | untitled
Sent Karl Shapiro for The Schooner.
|
November 28, 1956 |
D2.111 | untitled
Sent to Botteghe Oscure.
|
September 1, 1956 |
D2.112 | untitled
Sent to Hudson Review.
|
June 13, 1956 |
D2.113 | untitled
To John Hall Wheelock.
|
October 20, 1956 |
D2.114 | untitled
To Yale Review.
|
April 9, 1957 |
D2.115 | untitled
To New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
March 4, 1957 |
D2.116 | untitled
The following poems....
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November 14, 1957 |
D2.117 | untitled
To Robert Stoltze.
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September 17, 1957 |
D2.118 | untitled
Following to Northwest Review.
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June 21, 1958 |
D2.119 | untitled
Following to New Yorker.
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March 12, 1958 |
D2.120 | untitled
To Partisan Review.
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June 17, 1958 |
D2.121 | untitled
Sent as a supplementaryt group.
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April 13, 1959 |
D2.122 | untitled
Colorado Quarterly
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September 17, 1960 |
D3: "Tired Poems Put Away June 1965": Typescripts of Mostly Unpublished Poems, 1950s and 1960sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 16/Folder D3
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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D3.1 | “Toward Hush”
First Line: Hunting the blade of grass.
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March 1, 1953 |
D3.2 | “Persuasion River”
First Line: This river says nobody has to.
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August 15, 1969 |
D3.3 | “Bonus Work”
First Line: One of the prisoners, a big man, a lifer.
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June 1, 1967 |
D3.4 | “To a Little Girl Who Sang in the Seventh
Grade”
First Line: There are things easy to tell too well.
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June 1, 1963 |
D3.5 | “That Contemporaries Are
Lovers”
First Line: If you came desperate enough to me.
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April 1, 1958 |
D3.6 | “With the Kids at the Coast”
First Line: Lifeguard today (too proud a title, I like around me.
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July 1, 1963 |
D3.7 | “Needle in the Night”
First Line: Flashing, flashing it clutches.
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November 1, 1958 |
D3.8 | “Reliant”
First Line: If I were lost in space I would choose a way.
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March 1, 1956 |
D3.9 | “In the Woodlands”
First Line: Trees have time. Between storms.
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January 1, 1964 |
D3.10 | “Talking Over the Trip”
First Line: All we brought back shone.
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April 1, 1961 |
D3.11 | “Short Course in Economics”
First Line: Every day I meet sinners who carve prayers on the head of a
pin.
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August 1, 1964 |
D3.12 | “Culture”
First Line: Indelible around the student lamp night presses.
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February 1, 1961 |
D3.13 | “Intellectuals”
First Line: Subtle or not, you know enough.
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January 1, 1964 |
D3.14 | “To a Christian Lecturer on
Neo-Platonism”
First Line: William.
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November 1, 1960 |
D3.15 | “Round Park”
First Line: One park up north has only round.
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July 1, 1960 |
D3.16 | “Is There a Code?”
First Line: Somebody touches a grave.
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October 1, 1958 |
D3.17 | “Where?”
First Line: Where is the friend the earthquake sent?.
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September 1, 1956 |
D3.18 | “Podunk”
First Line: Citizens who stayed here sing about this place.
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June 1, 1961 |
D3.19 | “1960s”
First Line: All we can t`hink these days rams helpless like a ship.
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June 1, 1963 |
D3.20 | “News Story”
First Line: One day our class, tired of only knowing how.
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September 1, 1963 |
D3.21 | “Pursuit”
First Line: The headache found you, rngulfed.
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June 1, 1964 |
D3.22 | “Note from the Casual Man”
First Line: Casually, at some odd interval of night.
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September 1, 1964 |
D3.23 | “Reserves”
First Line: One in front of the race.
|
November 1, 1964 |
D3.24 | “Celebration of Living in the
Suburbs”
First Line: The girl next door has funny new curls.
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October 1, 1964 |
D3.25 | “Letter [to Donald Hall]”
First Line: Don, in your house when evening visits.
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December 1, 1963 |
D3.26 | “Jet Flight”
First Line: In a sound we occupy so fully.
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January 1, 1961 |
D3.27 | “Commitment”
First Line: My bow has one intention.
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May 1, 1963 |
D3.28 | “General Education Unit: Rome”
First Line: In this amphitheater consider a lion turd.
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May 1, 1959 |
D3.29 | “Honored Exile”
First Line: After our feet ran, we remembered.
|
September 1, 1964 |
D3.30 | “Provincial Scholar in Oxford”
First Line: I wore two shadows, one.
|
September 1, 1962 |
D3.31 | “Debbie and Eddie [Love
Story]”
First Line: Thousands of expeditions love called them.
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August 1, 1961 |
D3.32 | “To the Dragon in my Path”
First Line: I really expected to meet yuou sooner.
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August 1, 1962 |
D3.33 | “Ladies and Rain”
First Line: Rain at your window leads you.
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December 1, 1962 |
D3.34 | “Street Named Allan Way”
First Line: There in Allan Way.
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August 1, 1962 |
D3.35 | “Goals”
First Line: That big center, the fish goal in our country.
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April 1, 1962 |
D3.36 | “Saunter Downtown”
First Line: Sidewalk drum, respond; street at night, let.
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January 1, 1963 |
D3.37 | “Civil Defense: Five Seconds
Warning”
First Line: Officers in charge of How Not to Care.
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September 1, 1960 |
D3.38 | “Identifications”
First Line: Before corridors in the woods take.
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June 1, 1961 |
D3.39 | “Appeal for Quality as Morning
Begins”
First Line: All roads press on, trees lift.
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September 1, 1962 |
D3.40 | “Relation”
First Line: Because our church cut the wind.
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October 8, 1951 |
D3.41 | “If We Had Come Down at Sea”
First Line: We would flash through knowing a cloud, survive.
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October 1, 1962 |
D3.42 | “Current History”
First Line: As if in an army you had, not casualties.
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March 1, 1962 |
D3.43 | “Alienation”
First Line: We have come the long way.
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August 1, 1962 |
D3.44 | “On Princes Street”
First Line: All these chairs wait.
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August 1, 1962 |
D3.45 | “Making the Sound”
First Line: No one hears the gate close.
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July 1, 1959 |
D3.46 | “Lear”
First Line: Out into a dreadful storm.
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December 1, 1958 |
D3.47 | “Representatives of Moira”
First Line: Today when shoulders accept the flat light.
|
June 1, 1963 |
D3.48 | “Heartbeat Job”
First Line: Summer day on a certain mountain over a mild.
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June 1, 1963 |
D3.49 | “Big School”
First Line: When our girl brought the watch to show what she found.
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June 1, 1960 |
D3.50 | “He Wrote in the Dust”
First Line: He wrote carefully there in the dust.
|
March 1, 1956 |
D3.51 | “Architect”
First Line: You’ll remember him, looking at the rain.
|
July 1, 1958 |
D3.52 | “Peril of Being Worthy of
Love”
First Line: In that voice ignored to your peril, but low.
|
September 17, 1958 |
D3.53 | “So As to Fail Correctly”
First Line: So as to fail correctly -- all.
|
June 1, 1958 |
D3.54 | “Our Pyramid”
First Line: Birds fly around our farm.
|
June 1, 1958 |
D3.55 | “Aunt Mary”
First Line: Cat by cat my tabby aunt.
|
January 1, 1960 |
D3.56 | “Vindictive”
First Line: There is a kind of cat my teeth say kill.
|
August 1, 1957 |
D3.57 | “At the Strange Arroyo”
First Line: Dust come along turning.
|
May 1, 1960 |
D3.58 | “Imagining New Roots”
First Line: Whatever everything starts out from.
|
October 1, 1958 |
D3.59 | “Once at Our Play”
First Line: Once at our play an earthquake.
|
February 1, 1961 |
D3.60 | “Existences”
First Line: A body moves, part by part.
|
May 23, 1951 |
D3.61 | “One, Two, Three”
First Line: To have imagination is to be.
|
September 1, 1959 |
D3.62 | “Stop at the Falls”
First Line: That waterfall sleeping on the way down.
|
March 1, 1959 |
D3.63 | “At the Convention”
First Line: A sane hummingbird would fall.
|
July 1, 1964 |
D3.64 | “Along Our Street”
First Line: First -- a little about style.
|
September 20, 1962 |
D3.65 | “Memo from a College Teacher”
First Line: Teachers begin by pushing the subject matter.
|
October 1, 1956 |
D3.66 | “Gift”
First Line: Last night I touched an instant.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D3.67 | “Out There”
First Line: That school between the atoms where.
|
June 1, 1961 |
D3.68 | “Genius”
First Line: Though an ultimate kind of prisoner of space.
|
February 1, 1958 |
D3.69 | “Little Voice”
First Line: Even varnish maintains well.
|
April 1, 1960 |
D3.70 | untitled
First Line: No one is likely to come where the altar.
|
April 1, 1960 |
D3.71 | “Our Thoughtful”
First Line: The thoughtful amongst us pause in the darkness.
|
May 1, 1953 |
D3.72 | “Addressed to a Positive
Friend”
First Line: Ever true, led by such fine wire.
|
August 1, 1961 |
D3.73 | “Awake to Stillness”
First Line: A city stopped. The afternoon.
|
August 1, 1960 |
D3.74 | “Field Theory”
First Line: Your treasons breathe to sleepers; they.
|
September 1, 1957 |
D3.75 | “People of the Hills”
First Line: In places in these hills.
|
February 1, 1957 |
D3.76 | “Empathy”
First Line: Sharing pain, I hear the young in pain.
|
September 1, 1958 |
D3.77 | “Beach Party”
First Line: I go down to the water.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D3.78 | “Touching the Cold”
First Line: Quick as the snowflakes froze.
|
March 1, 1953 |
D3.79 | “New State”
First Line: To all of you hurrying by: last night late.
|
June 1, 1959 |
D3.80 | “Little-Gift Live”
First Line: What can we trust who have to trust?.
|
March 1, 1959 |
D3.81 | “One Day”
First Line: On that white-faced day.
|
January 1, 1953 |
D3.82 | “I Really Must Leave Now””
First Line: At parties late, in the sound that morning makes.
|
June 1, 1959 |
D3.83 | “Acknowledging the Scotts”
First Line: My friends, who live by skill.
|
April 1, 1962 |
D3.84 | “Bonfire Staccato”
First Line: Bonfire staccato in the wind.
|
October 1, 1955 |
D3.85 | “Real Language Never Said”
First Line: When, say on a bus, you encounter a person.
|
August 1, 1960 |
D3.86 | “In the Paddock”
First Line: I promise the forefeet with my mild eye.
|
June 23, 1956 |
D3.87 | “On the Great Northern”
First Line: When our train vaulted a river.
|
June 1, 1961 |
D3.88 | “In the Real World”
First Line: Slender chances breed yet slenderer.
|
November 1, 1961 |
D3.89 | “Poor Man’s Machiavelli”
First Line: Like the sudden friend on the straight roads.
|
April 1, 1961 |
D3.90 | “Monitor”
First Line: Dirt has claimed their mouths who taught me care.
|
October 1, 1955 |
D3.91 | “Conservative Poem”
First Line: The young who looked for Marxist.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D3.92 | “First Time”
First Line: It takes food, ruddy light.
|
February 1, 1958 |
D3.93 | “O Tennyson”
First Line: Your niche bricked over by success.
|
February 1, 1961 |
D3.94 | “On a Fine Lady in a Spring
Wind”
First Line: You see that lady in a gown.
|
October 1, 1958 |
D3.95 | “King Space”
First Line: Confident wherever he is, my friend.
|
February 1, 1959 |
D3.96 | “By an Ultimate Critic”
First Line: Penultimate poet with antepenultimate poetess.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D3.97 | “In April at the College”
First Line: In the hall clothes-whispers teach.
|
February 1, 1960 |
D3.98 | “Staring through the Kitchen
Wall”
First Line: If walls could mirror what they hide.
|
July 1, 1957 |
D3.99 | “Question “Why?””
First Line: Faster than the mind can fly.
|
February 1, 1959 |
D3.100 | “Faith”
First Line: Our dog worships meat.
|
September 11, 1958 |
D3.101 | “In Church”
First Line: What the preacher says is only true.
|
May 1, 1960 |
D3.102 | “At the Coast”
First Line: Offering itself, the town.
|
June 1, 1960 |
D3.103 | “Nobody Has Ever Told It”
First Line: Over a tide that searched every island.
|
August 1, 1961 |
D3.104 | “Dream”
First Line: A bike that falls whenever you.
|
October 1, 1960 |
D3.105 | “That Picture of Napoleon”
First Line: The Marshall follows his war.
|
July 1, 1958 |
D3.106 | “Cube, the Cone”
First Line: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionist.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D3.107 | “For a Nagging Wife”
First Line: No more of that frame, the photographer.
|
February 1, 1962 |
D3.108 | “Clear Morning”
First Line: Reason season!” whistles a bird.
|
February 1, 1962 |
D3.109 | “It Comes, It Comes”
First Line: On a beach one day when the waves.
|
September 1, 1960 |
D3.110 | “Wood Sermon”
First Line: Wood in church poured long grain.
|
June 1, 1961 |
D3.111 | “People”
First Line: Other than irrelevant, but.
|
December 1, 1960 |
D3.112 | “To a College Friend”
First Line: Folded into books our country works.
|
February 1, 1961 |
D3.113 | “Two Kinds of Greatness”
First Line: Sparrows have scored on every magnificence.
|
June 1, 1956 |
D3.114 | “At Bow Lake”
First Line: A man who approached our fire.
|
June 1, 1961 |
D3.115 | “Brother and Sister”
First Line: You can’t say well enough the things that happen.
|
January 1, 1960 |
D3.116 | “Farm Near John Day”
First Line: Holding up the map of Oregon for shade.
|
November 1, 1960 |
D4: Typescripts of Unpublished Poems, 1940s and 1950sReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 16/Folder D4
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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D4.1 | “Visit Home”
First Line: How to hold the windshield up.
|
August 1, 1954 |
D4.2 | “Stampede at Smithers”
First Line: That land up north no one would call easy land.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.3 | “Aquaintances”
First Line: Between slid silences, night areas of talk.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D4.4 | “Places We Count On”
First Line: Places we count on, little towns.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.5 | “Penseroso”
First Line: History drives hard bargains.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.6 | “Girl at the Beach”
First Line: Going down level into the breathless water.
|
July 1, 1954 |
D4.7 | “Onomatopoeia”
First Line: Only rushing sounds extend.
|
March 1, 1954 |
D4.8 | “Landscape of Surprise”
First Line: You slowed me at a window going by.
|
May 31, 1951 |
D4.9 | “Matters of Fact”
First Line: Let boxes in this town go squarer than square.
|
February 1, 1954 |
D4.10 | “Explorers”
First Line: At the falls of the river, the decision.
|
September 1, 1953 |
D4.11 | “On the Ground”
First Line: Thickets put forth foxes on the snow.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D4.12 | “Life, Then Storm”
First Line: Snow can walk so equally.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.13 | “Character”
First Line: That open easy way of his.
|
January 1, 1953 |
D4.14 | “Looking at the River”
First Line: How hard they sing, the sound-blocked and the fair.
|
August 1, 1953 |
D4.15 | “Summer Host”
First Line: In August without holding any job.
|
August 1, 1953 |
D4.16 | “Rain Forest”
First Line: Advancing wall of timber, what you represent.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D4.17 | “To ----”
First Line: Whenever I see rock or steel, I stop.
|
October 1, 1953 |
D4.18 | “Instant”
First Line: With only a continent to help me.
|
August 1, 1953 |
D4.19 | “Coming Out of Sleep”
First Line: In the early morning coming out of sleep.
|
August 1, 1953 |
D4.20 | “Traces of the King”
First Line: Of all the cornfields meany our town was wary.
|
December 1, 1955 |
D4.21 | “Leavetaking”
First Line: Folders of apologies in the filing cabinet.
|
January 1, 1956 |
D4.22 | “Quiet and Steady”
First Line: Quiet and steady as a moundbuilder’s mound.
|
January 1, 1956 |
D4.23 | “Sing the Child”
First Line: How small you were, my child--.
|
February 1, 1956 |
D4.24 | “Research Project”
First Line: Our gray-eyed life.
|
February 1, 1953 |
D4.25 | “Convergence”
First Line: Coming near at the sneeze interval.
|
March 10, 1952 |
D4.26 | “Last Things”
First Line: One behind the other, many things are happening.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.27 | “Sad Story”
First Line: We didn’t know if we owned Janey.
|
November 1, 1952 |
D4.28 | “Night Flight”
First Line: Heavy to lift is the sky in Oregon.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.29 | “Report”
First Line: Complaining wives have never liked Sacajawea.
|
October 1, 1955 |
D4.30 | untitled
First Line: To be a forest big trees .
|
December 29, 1949 |
D4.31 | untitled
First Line: Road thru pine.
|
August 27, 1948 |
D4.32 | “November Incident”
First Line: Silent Lee the big dark ranger came down.
|
May 27, 1944 |
D4.33 | “Pere Marquette”
First Line: Going down, putting the serious canoe.
|
March 1, 1956 |
D4.34 | “For Tippy”
First Line: Bells from the college will hum far as the knoll.
|
May 1, 1956 |
D4.35 | “Journal of Sacajawea”
First Line: Hungry men. They come from a deep country.
|
March 1, 1955 |
D4.36 | “In the Swing”
First Line: The closest I can come to being you.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.37 | “Pretty Fang”
First Line: Come into this country, Pretty Fang.
|
February 1, 1953 |
D4.38 | “Leaf”
First Line: Of the total we don’t know.
|
January 1, 1953 |
D4.39 | “Preface for the Poor Man’s
Machiavelli”
First Line: Every prince needs a companion.
|
April 1, 1954 |
D4.40 | “Harder than Life”
First Line: When the great glacier came down.
|
March 1, 1953 |
D4.41 | “Vespers”
First Line: If the world should flare into the night of me.
|
February 1, 1953 |
D4.42 | “Sunday Afternoon”
First Line: In relief, the way time touches a carving.
|
August 15, 1952 |
D4.43 | “Place for Them”
First Line: In the whispering blue vault.
|
March 11, 1950 |
D4.44 | “Curb Sign”
First Line: Reading the street, letting fear claw the screen.
|
September 7, 1951 |
D4.45 | “Analysis”
First Line: Coming up the drive toward your house.
|
March 10, 1949 |
D4.46 | “Test”
First Line: On the pelt wall it said, “Fool,.
|
February 18, 1952 |
D4.47 | “Sharp Tuning”
First Line: I tune the feeblest sound.
|
February 25, 1948 |
D4.48 | “Heritage”
First Line: So to be born, this one, that one.
|
March 1, 1953 |
D4.49 | “Gulf Stream”
First Line: There wait our sunburst century.
|
August 11, 1952 |
D4.50 | “Report from the Provinces (two
versions)”
First Line: The people at our house wept for.
|
February 2, 1945 |
D4.51 | “Coast Birds”
First Line: Dizzy on the tilting cliff when.
|
January 1, 1953 |
D4.52 | “Endings”
First Line: More and more alien, icebergs go.
|
December 5, 1948 |
D4.53 | “Cardinal”
First Line: He counsels condemned flowers.
|
April 15, 1951 |
D4.54 | “In Rain”
First Line: We came out of a wilderness.
|
March 1, 1953 |
D4.55 | “Polonius’ Song”
First Line: Grant respect where possible.
|
undated |
D4.56 | “Any Day”
First Line: You look up and fall into the sky.
|
May 31, 1950 |
D4.57 | “We Need Mistakes”
First Line: To see so dark a world takes ignorance.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D4.58 | “October Country”
First Line: In every field the roots rive unseen.
|
September 11, 1951 |
D4.59 | “Trajectory”
First Line: People on the same rocket are not moving, to each other.
|
April 1, 1955 |
D4.60 | “Correlative”
First Line: In the old logging camp light filtered through.
|
October 28, 1952 |
D4.61 | “Raveled Man”
First Line: A man of no great mark, a snarl of string.
|
January 3, 1952 |
D4.62 | “for M. McC**ll*f”
First Line: We’re bushed by God, trimmed with ten-cent shears.
|
undated |
D4.62 | “for B. B*lv*n”
First Line: Roll crooked happily, marbles.
|
undated |
D4.62 | “for P. *ngl*”
First Line: If it’s corn I plant, grant it be on side hills.
|
undated |
D4.62 | “for Cl** Gr*ss”
First Line: Here on my lap I held Podger.
|
April 30, 1951 |
D4.62 | “for J. Gr*ss”
First Line: 17th century man.
|
undated |
D4.63 | “Dodo Bird”
First Line: In a glass case by the library door.
|
August 3, 1950 |
D4.64 | “For the Dons to Chew On”
First Line: For sweating metaphors, real well-cooked Taters.
|
December 1, 1950 |
D4.65 | “Near the Rose Garden”
First Line: Old men carrying flowers from the rose garden.
|
October 1, 1953 |
D4.66 | “Along toward Dark”
First Line: Evening held my level city.
|
February 1, 1954 |
D4.67 | “Wren Song”
First Line: To some kind of song that first morning.
|
March 23, 1951 |
D4.68 | untitled
First Line: It was alittle state. We don’t much care.
|
November 14, 1950 |
D4.69 | “Few Lines of Identification”
First Line: Know all men, and women especially.
|
September 28, 1952 |
D4.70 | “Maniphisto”
First Line: I saw that glorious coward Snidwell.
|
January 31, 1951 |
D4.71 | “That Evening”
First Line: Charred mountains by sunset reforested.
|
January 21, 1952 |
D4.72 | “Communion”
First Line: If you stars, and you, space.
|
February 10, 1951 |
D4.73 | “All the Time”
First Line: I think, I think, I think, I think.
|
May 6, 1950 |
D4.74 | “Limp Fenders”
First Line: Cars farmers drive.
|
March 23, 1951 |
D4.75 | “At Zion’s Hill”
First Line: With disheveled wintry beard.
|
undated |
D4.76 | “For Aunt Bessy”
First Line: In the years when we grew away.
|
January 1, 1954 |
D4.77 | “Single Sight”
First Line: I think every animal, believe them part by part.
|
March 1, 1954 |
D4.78 | “World Wind”
First Line: World wind is too big to find.
|
February 1, 1954 |
D4.79 | “Meeting”
First Line: Holding in one hand the quietness.
|
February 1, 1954 |
D4.80 | “When the Cold Comes”
First Line: Icing the four rivers around the world.
|
December 29, 1951 |
D4.81 | “Picture like a Bomb”
First Line: The sun that welders watch, their helmets on.
|
May 1, 1954 |
D4.82 | “Reflection”
First Line: Backing out of a mirror.
|
August 30, 1950 |
D4.83 | “Jumba Hauk”
First Line: Jumba Hauk and his orgyestra.
|
February 8, 1951 |
D4.84 | “Climbing”
First Line: Mine is only a zigzag faith.
|
June 19, 1954 |
D4.85 | “Every Day”
First Line: The girl who got off the bus.
|
December 31, 1950 |
D4.86 | “Hunted”
First Line: Blue-cold and ravening, steel floats trembling.
|
December 1, 1950 |
D4.87 | “Light at the Last”
First Line: It is in corners of ourselves that the world is falling.
|
November 1, 1953 |
D4.88 | “For My Mother: Ruby Nina
Stafford”
First Line: In the cell exchanges where my secret was addressed to
me.
|
May 1, 1954 |
D4.89 | “Three Tries”
First Line: Driven through councils of the young.
|
March 28, 1952 |
D4.90 | “Combined Shows”
First Line: In spring little creatures unawares.
|
December 30, 1950 |
D4.91 | “Contact”
First Line: They taste in honey that sour root.
|
September 1, 1953 |
D4.92 | “I Listen a Long Time”
First Line: Deep and cold, balance arms in the late hours.
|
December 1, 1953 |
D4.93 | “Contact”
First Line: In little puff, in mighty blast.
|
July 1, 1953 |
D4.94 | “Little Twist”
First Line: Let smoke resign to sky and far.
|
April 30, 1951 |
D4.95 | “Beating Time”
First Line: When we danced in the kitchen.
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April 23, 1951 |
D4.96 | “Staccago”
First Line: Hickok heard bullets whistle.
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March 22, 1951 |
D4.97 | “Gunshot”
First Line: I have been lost but now I know.
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April 17, 1951 |
D4.98 | untitled
First Line: At the kids’ playground holding on with hands.
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September 5, 1951 |
D4.99 | untitled
First Line: In France the mistral blows.
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November 9, 1943 |
D4.100 | “Outward”
First Line: When we sit on the front seat.
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January 19, 1951 |
D4.101 | “Declension”
First Line: First comes the day you lean and drop a stone.
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July 21, 1947 |
D4.102 | “Not Much, But Little”
First Line: They write lines the way they breathe.
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February 19, 1950 |
D4.103 | “Lament”
First Line: My weakness doth my heart with dole fill!.
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October 5, 1941 |
D4.104 | “Marriage”
First Line: No person worth knowing would be disturbed.
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January 26, 1950 |
D4.105 | “Landscape for Postcards”
First Line: Stern duty is a bitter thought.
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December 15, 1944 |
D4.106 | “Natural History”
First Line: The bear yields a small fruit.
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July 3, 1947 |
D4.107 | “Family Quarrel”
First Line: She banged pans and in the night outside.
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April 25, 1950 |
D4.108 | “Since Every Word Must Count”
First Line: Julagi is you, whom I never did get to know.
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February 7, 1950 |
D4.109 | “Strategy”
First Line: There aren’t many hills to come out on.
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May 26, 1951 |
D4.110 | “Sober Song”
First Line: A sober song two sparrows sang.
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November 1, 1951 |
D4.111 | “Lady of Shallot”
First Line: We stumblers labeled “oaf”.
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August 24, 1951 |
D4.112 | “To a Political Speaker”
First Line: These old premises need inspection. Foreigner.
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March 1, 1952 |
D4.113 | “Askance [Still Life]”
First Line: Rats at the pilings, holding them firm.
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July 28, 1952 |
D4.114 | “Askance [Still Life]”
First Line: Rats at the pilings, holding them firm.
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July 28, 1952 |
D4.115 | “In Italics”
First Line: Following step by step.
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October 5, 1952 |
D4.116 | “Reproof”
First Line: If this is a cave - the solid world.
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August 7, 1952 |
D4.117 | “Truce of Christmas (poem by G.K.
Chesterton)”
First Line: Passionate peace is in the sky.
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undated |
D4.118 | “Ownership”
First Line: No wander of no river.
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November 6, 1943 |
D4.119 | “Lost”
First Line: After the day that I remember.
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November 6, 1949 |
D4.120 | “Stilled”
First Line: My farm on Tealwing River .
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December 14, 1943 |
D4.121 | “Hunting”
First Line: When they break, they scatter.
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May 7, 1946 |
D4.122 | “Here, Now”
First Line: All the space around us can win.
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July 17, 1951 |
D4.123 | “Buffalo Wallow”
First Line: Taken by squaw-carpet grass.
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June 25, 1951 |
D4.124 | “Listening”
First Line: Our wilderness the world.
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undated |
D4.125 | “Prisoners”
First Line: In paired glows at night little eyes.
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March 7, 1949 |
D4.126 | “Occurrences”
First Line: One dead still night our town lay near the wilderness.
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May 20, 1946 |
D4.127 | “Wyoming Has No Pocket”
First Line: Wyoming has no pocket, an open hand.
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July 14, 1951 |
D4.128 | “All or None”
First Line: When the realm of touch is true.
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July 6, 1951 |
D4.129 | “Mine I Shovel For”
First Line: From the mine I shovel for.
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June 28, 1951 |
D4.130 | “(magazine list)”
First Line: Palimpsest XIII....
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undated |
D4.131 | “Magazines to Publish in (1)”
First Line: Accent....
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August 26, 1947 |
D4.132 | “Mag... (2)”
First Line: Nation....
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August 26, 1947 |
D4.133 | “Mag... (3)”
First Line: Tomorrow....
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August 26, 1947 |
D4.134 | “Mag... (4)”
First Line: Partisan....
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undated |
D4.135 | “Mag... (5)”
First Line: Voices....
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undated |
D4.136 | “Mag... (6)”
First Line: Kansas....
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undated |
D4.137 | “Mag... (7)”
First Line: Pacific....
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undated |
D4.138 | “Mag... (8)”
First Line: Contemporary....
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September 2, 1947 |
D4.139 | “Poems Out (1)”
First Line: Atlantic....
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September 13, 1948 |
D4.140 | “Poems Out (2)”
First Line: Alan Swallow....
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September 13, 1948 |
D4.141 | “Writings Out (1)”
First Line: Sparrows....
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undated |
D4.142 | “Short Stories and Their
Travels”
First Line: Osage Orange....
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August 20, 1947 |
D4.143 | “Short Stories...(2)”
First Line: The Name of the Time Is Herod.
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July 5, 1948 |
D4.144 | “Writings Out (1)”
First Line: Fellowship....
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September 27, 1947 |
D4.145 | “Writings at Work (1)”
First Line: To Accent....
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May 31, 1946 |
D4.146 | “Writings at Work (2)”
First Line: Osage Orange....
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July 4, 1947 |
D4.147 | “[Mag... (9)]”
First Line: Mademoiselle .
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undated |
D4.148 | “Addresses ”
First Line: Eva Dayton....
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July 1, 1950 |
D4.149 | “Addresses ”
First Line: Sgt. Robert K. Allen.
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August 8, 1946 |
D4.150 | “Addresses - 2 ”
First Line: Americo....
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August 8, 1948 |
D4.151 | “Addresses - 3”
First Line: Scott....
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August 8, 1948 |
D4.152 | “Addresses - 4”
First Line: Wm Brose....
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August 8, 1948 |
D4.153 | “Addresses - 5”
First Line: Chuck....
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August 8, 1948 |
D4.154 | “Addresses - 6”
First Line: Coyle....
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August 8, 1948 |
D4.155 | “[Addresses - 7]”
First Line: Mrs. Evelina....
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undated |
D4.156 | “[Addresses - 8]”
First Line: Rev. E.L. ....
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undated |
D4.157 | “Ontario Addresses”
First Line: Mrs. Helen....
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undated |
D4.158 | “Few Lines of Identification”
First Line: Know all men, and women especially.
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September 28, 1952 |
D4.159 | “ (dedication)”
First Line: For no person.
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January 7, 1942 |
D4.160 | untitled
First Line: My soles held up the earth.
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September 16, 1952 |
D4.161 | “Turning Point”
First Line: I saw among the regular waves.
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January 12, 1948 |
D4.162 | “Surfaces”
First Line: Now the blend brush fills.
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September 21, 1949 |
D4.163 | “Unromantics”
First Line: Escorting slim things from their houses.
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January 24, 1950 |
D4.164 | “Soliloquy in the Bus”
First Line: Old iron, dirty streets, all the daily cheats, and war.
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August 12, 1950 |
D4.165 | “Early Start”
First Line: Air we met in the morning.
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January 20, 1950 |
D4.166 | untitled
First Line: Dreaming at night, the rootfish turn.
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October 18, 1951 |
D4.167 | “Fall Wind”
First Line: Salt birds flirt from the weed patch.
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November 19, 1951 |
D4.168 | untitled
First Line: After cool evening going down the hill.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.169 | untitled
First Line: All of the faces in clouds or along the street.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.170 | “Afternoon Walk”
First Line: We two, caught by the amber.
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July 1, 1953 |
D4.171 | “Afternoon Walk”
First Line: We two, caught by the amber.
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July 1, 1953 |
D4.172 | “Events”
First Line: I hear a dog names Eagle on the mountain.
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June 16, 1952 |
D4.173 | “Events”
First Line: I hear a dog.
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June 16, 1952 |
D4.174 | “Jackson Hole”
First Line: A flat land, reconciled rivers.
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June 21, 1952 |
D4.175 | “Jackson Hole”
First Line: A flat land, reconciled rivers.
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June 21, 1952 |
D4.176 | “Direction”
First Line: At night creating mushrooms, bending fern.
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July 23, 1952 |
D4.177 | “Direction”
First Line: At night creating mushrooms, bending fern.
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July 23, 1952 |
D4.178 | untitled
First Line: My suicide soul manning a submarine.
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November 1, 1952 |
D4.179 | untitled
First Line: My suicide soul manning a submarine.
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November 1, 1952 |
D4.180 | “Gift”
First Line: Near the river meadow.
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October 6, 1952 |
D4.181 | “Gift”
First Line: Near the river meadow.
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October 6, 1952 |
D4.182 | “Extremes”
First Line: Every road goes toward, or away from, the river.
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September 28, 1952 |
D4.183 | “Extremes”
First Line: Every road goes toward, or away from, the river.
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September 28, 1952 |
D4.184 | “Two Lands”
First Line: After work the cloud of town broke.
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February 5, 1951 |
D4.185 | untitled
First Line: In the dark that night I thought.
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January 8, 1953 |
D4.186 | untitled
First Line: Waiting for a sunburst in the walkers.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.187 | “[Birthday Song] Two Voyages”
First Line: In our midflight, darkening.
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August 24, 1952 |
D4.188 | “Birthday Song”
First Line: In our midflight, deepening.
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August 24, 1952 |
D4.189 | “Breathing”
First Line: I stand on the mortgage edge of town.
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November 20, 1951 |
D4.190 | “Breathing”
First Line: I stand on the mortgage edge of town.
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November 20, 1951 |
D4.191 | “Any Last Meeting”
First Line: In the glass garden of any last meeting.
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April 24, 1952 |
D4.192 | “Any Last Meeting”
First Line: In the glass garden of any last meeting.
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April 24, 1952 |
D4.193 | “Starting Here”
First Line: Unless the oak will nod.
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February 1, 1953 |
D4.194 | “Starting Here”
First Line: Unless the oak will nod.
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February 1, 1953 |
D4.195 | “[Recognition]”
First Line: He met you in this lightning room.
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November 4, 1951 |
D4.196 | “[Recognition]”
First Line: He met you in this lightning room.
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November 4, 1951 |
D4.197 | “Vespers”
First Line: I wear my shadow, so.
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February 1, 1953 |
D4.198 | “Vespers”
First Line: I wear my shadow, so.
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February 1, 1953 |
D4.199 | “Curb Sign”
First Line: Reading the street, letting fear claw the screen.
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September 7, 1951 |
D4.200 | “Tracing”
First Line: Shadow by elder tuft into the close.
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August 4, 1952 |
D4.201 | “Tracing”
First Line: Shadow by elder tuft into the close.
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August 4, 1952 |
D4.202 | “Remainder”
First Line: I spring bone separate to make this bone.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.203 | “Remainder”
First Line: I spring bone separate to make this bone.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.204 | untitled
First Line: Knowing is a devious road.
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January 1, 1953 |
D4.205 | untitled
First Line: One night I faced the stars, those cold minorities.
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September 1, 1953 |
D4.206 | “Here, Now”
First Line: One step after another across and over the land.
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April 15, 1943 |
D4.207 | “Bits of Snow - November”
First Line: Stealing toward night, hissed by wind, our northern town.
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March 29, 1951 |
D4.208 | “Touch and Go”
First Line: At blink when we looked, a world had already dropped.
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July 26, 1951 |
D4.209 | “From the Underground”
First Line: If the top of the land be stolen.
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January 3, 1952 |
D4.210 | “Four A.M.”
First Line: By one elaborate wave our ocean graced.
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February 26, 1952 |
D4.211 | “Learning”
First Line: A needle knows everything lengthwise.
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undated |
D4.212 | “Fallen”
First Line: Over the mountain tonight sparrows will fall.
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February 5, 1950 |
D4.213 | “Four A.M.”
First Line: By one elaborate wave our ocean graced.
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February 26, 1952 |
D4.214 | “At the Park”
First Line: Back of the proud white geese.
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October 10, 1951 |
D4.215 | “Springs Near Hagerman”
First Line: Springs leap from lava near Hagerman.
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undated |
D4.216 | “Small Item”
First Line: A tumbleweed that was trying.
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undated |
D4.217 | “Bits of Snow - November”
First Line: Stealing toward night, hissed by wind, our northern town.
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March 29, 1951 |
D4.218 | “Here, Now”
First Line: One step after another across and over the land.
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April 15, 1943 |
D4.219 | “Wavering”
First Line: We saw a town by the track in Colorado.
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undated |
D4.220 | “(address)”
First Line: Russ and Nita.
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undated |
D4.221 | “Idol”
First Line: A sun beats in hollow ivory.
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October 25, 1951 |
D4.222 | “In and Out”
First Line: Looking at one rock evenly.
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July 2, 1951 |
D4.223 | “Some History [The Moat]”
First Line: Through the drowned lands to Vincennes.
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January 8, 1952 |
D4.224 | “Liger”
First Line: Camels withold their lewd look.
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March 9, 1952 |
D4.225 | “Parallels”
First Line: Such mountain as may heart the range.
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October 29, 1951 |
D4.226 | “Fall Rain”
First Line: In the sky city of sleet.
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March 21, 1952 |
D4.227 | “Migraine”
First Line: By the blister on my heel and the eye wince in the sun.
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September 29, 1950 |
D4.228 | “Vita Nuova”
First Line: A riveter shaken with laughter.
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January 19, 1951 |
D4.229 | “Faithful”
First Line: That morning they watched the child.
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December 2, 1951 |
D4.230 | “Out Late”
First Line: Two gulls puffed in the white part.
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September 25, 1951 |
D4.231 | “One Way”
First Line: Of all the ways our valley granted.
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August 10, 1951 |
D4.232 | “Vineyard (by F.D.Chambers)”
First Line: Walking through the rows of vines.
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undated |
D4.233 | “Certain Persons”
First Line: There are persons like the rolling.
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January 20, 1948 |
D4.234 | “Moment”
First Line: Lifting out of the road sixty-aimed.
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July 15, 1951 |
D4.235 | “f20:”
First Line: Splinter of time flicks by.
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December 29, 1949 |
D4.236 | “Romantic”
First Line: I go down into life the hard way.
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April 16, 1946 |
D4.237 | “Star-Crossed”
First Line: In uncreated love, lost fellow next to fallow girl.
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July 14, 1950 |
D4.238 | “Current”
First Line: Listen close - not ever does gold.
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December 29, 1950 |
D4.239 | “Stay”
First Line: My book is day by day and cold faces.
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October 16, 1950 |
D4.240 | “Fugitive”
First Line: All the ways out of the room.
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January 19, 1952 |
D4.241 | “Uncle River”
First Line: They gave a trick to my Uncle River.
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October 5, 1951 |
D4.242 | “On Vacation”
First Line: The deer on Easy Mountain.
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May 31, 1945 |
D4.243 | “To Sophomores”
First Line: They were in the sun talking.
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January 12, 1950 |
D4.244 | “Our Clay Road”
First Line: There was an old road we teamed over.
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November 30, 1951 |
D4.245 | “For Cleo’s Cat”
First Line: Here on my lap I held Podger.
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April 30, 1951 |
D4.246 | “Edict of Herod”
First Line: It was wrong and the knife bent.
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November 28, 1951 |
D4.247 | “Sound Late”
First Line: I heard the late clock strike, once more it stalks.
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September 21, 1951 |
D4.248 | “Meeting Someone”
First Line: When we meet warily on some lone track.
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January 17, 1947 |
D4.249 | “Fish”
First Line: When fish want out of the water.
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September 3, 1950 |
D4.250 | “Old Red”
First Line: Stealing off through the anvil.
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November 21, 1951 |
D4.251 | “Hunted Lives”
First Line: In gratitude for deserts, any scape and rest.
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September 15, 1951 |
D4.252 | “Moon-Day”
First Line: Before daylight it was moon-day.
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January 23, 1951 |
D4.253 | “Inherent Messages I:
Double-Bit”
First Line: This axe floating through tree shade on my shoulder.
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July 18, 1951 |
D4.254 | “Inherent Messages II: Coiled
Weather”
First Line: The little black pony bought to carry the boys.
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July 18, 1951 |
D4.255 | “Inherent Messages III: Pale
Tangent”
First Line: Going in toward the shoulders of animals .
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July 22, 1951 |
D4.256 | “Home Fire”
First Line: Though I all new ways turn.
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October 18, 1951 |
D4.257 | “All the Cost”
First Line: In the evening canyons above Pasadena.
|
undated |
D4.258 | “Rescued from Drowning”
First Line: The Dutch walk under the sea but their dike land holds.
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September 11, 1951 |
D4.259 | “On the Lawnmower Handle”
First Line: Into the handles of things I hold.
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March 9, 1949 |
D4.260 | untitled
First Line: Out of the gray deep ocean with grass and sand.
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May 31, 1943 |
D4.261 | “Smoke Trees”
First Line: In the desert where no tree ought to grow.
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January 2, 1947 |
D4.262 | “Rooms of Air”
First Line: Room above room we found when we climbed.
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September 6, 1950 |
D4.263 | “Tree Talk”
First Line: Dungeon ground they tortured me.
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December 22, 1949 |
D4.264 | “[Season]”
First Line: Living on that ranch was far.
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May 30, 1951 |
D4.265 | “Season”
First Line: Living on that ranch was far.
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May 30, 1951 |
D4.266 | “Those Black Flares”
First Line: Those black flares workmen put like bombs on dirt.
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May 29, 1951 |
D4.267 | “Crossed Shadows”
First Line: Going dark then pale stalking into the braced.
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November 9, 1951 |
D4.268 | “Breaker”
First Line: There was this green, green, until the sky green.
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November 28, 1951 |
D4.269 | “Parallels”
First Line: Such mountain as may heart the range.
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October 29, 1951 |
D4.270 | “In the Fought War”
First Line: In the fought war they broke the cannon.
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February 18, 1951 |
D4.271 | “Land”
First Line: Land, you have given too little .
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May 31, 1950 |
D4.272 | “Madrigal”
First Line: The snow melted on Christmas Eve.
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March 17, 1950 |
D4.273 | “Snails”
First Line: Not far - foot close - you swerve your lives.
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November 24, 1948 |
D4.274 | “Orchard Way”
First Line: Globed in hundreds, gleaming out of the trees.
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August 12, 1950 |
D4.275 | “With the Joneses”
First Line: Just like the others we cross a river.
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September 15, 1950 |
D4.276 | “Collie in Brown Leaves”
First Line: The hours and miles raced closer.
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September 19, 1950 |
D4.277 | “In Oregon Shadowed”
First Line: In Oregon shadowed great swards of baneberry.
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May 2, 1951 |
D4.278 | “In the Basement on My
Birthday”
First Line: The blackened almost edge of Now had reached for me.
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January 16, 1950 |
D4.279 | “Passenger”
First Line: The half-dark world spins.
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October 13, 1949 |
D4.280 | “Up from the Floor”
First Line: From the spot where they grew.
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January 15, 1949 |
D4.281 | “Hold Level”
First Line: Out there walking toward the trees.
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December 5, 1948 |
D4.282 | “Slow Light in Mexico”
First Line: On the desert coast of Baja California.
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December 31, 1950 |
D4.284 | “Inscribed on a City Wall”
First Line: In one of these, castle or prison, I lived.
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August 31, 1950 |
D4.285 | “Brightness”
First Line: On the basement stairs I saw a bluejay feather.
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November 9, 1950 |
D4.286 | “Clear Still Day”
First Line: The way it was, all quiet one minute.
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March 29, 1950 |
D4.287 | “Early Start”
First Line: From off the cactus flat.
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June 12, 1947 |
D4.288 | “Tangent”
First Line: On the plank door my shadow grew thinner.
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December 31, 1950 |
D4.289 | “Current Event”
First Line: Carrying a dream, the man strode quiet as water.
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June 10, 1949 |
D4.290 | “With Captain Scott”
First Line: One day these men gave too much.
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February 10, 1951 |
D4.291 | “Zero [With Captain Scott]”
First Line: One day the earth gave too much.
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February 10, 1951 |
D4.292 | untitled
First Line: Before the dark ships came.
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August 16, 1944 |
D4.293 | untitled
First Line: There lives a storm that never moves its throat.
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May 29, 1944 |
D4.294 | “Chicago Bridge, Evening”
First Line: Listen, you whistles and gongs.
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March 2, 1945 |
D4.295 | untitled
First Line: Comradship by bottles on the train.
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June 3, 1944 |
D4.296 | “Angles”
First Line: Comandoes creep - the men without flat feet.
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March 13, 1944 |
D4.297 | “Remember”
First Line: The slumbering earth dreamed full length.
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June 17, 1945 |
D4.298 | “Hydraulics”
First Line: In a way not plain to us dumb creatures.
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August 18, 1949 |
D4.299 | “Way Men Walk”
First Line: falling forward.
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August 1, 1942 |
D4.300 | “Overheard”
First Line: Everyone has more horses.
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March 8, 1948 |
D4.301 | “Expectancy”
First Line: We put it all off some way.
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April 1, 1949 |
D4.302 | “All Alien”
First Line: As lonely as our world in Saturn’s sky.
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December 12, 1944 |
D4.303 | untitled
First Line: When I walked along the earth.
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May 4, 1946 |
D4.304 | “Explorers”
First Line: They said it was the Great Divide.
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November 9, 1943 |
D4.305 | “Refinery Town”
First Line: In our town was no stranger sound than love.
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July 17, 1945 |
D4.306 | “Dead Porcupine”
First Line: I would become acquainted.
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July 21, 1950 |
D4.307 | “Acquaintance”
First Line: Looking down starting with shoes.
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March 9, 1951 |
D4.308 | “Our Night Street”
First Line: A cold nose follows out our night street.
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April 7, 1951 |
D4.309 | “Our Night Street”
First Line: A cold nose follows out our night street.
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April 7, 1951 |
D4.310 | “In Spring”
First Line: These turtles come out of coat collars all over the
nation.
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April 16, 1951 |
D4.311 | “Cold Spell”
First Line: Wind becomes the sky.
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March 31, 1951 |
D4.312 | “On the Right Road”
First Line: Back and forth between the picture and you.
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March 18, 1951 |
D4.313 | “At Point Lobos”
First Line: The tower of the poet, whited when sunlit.
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May 9, 1951 |
D4.314 | “Parallels”
First Line: Only later in the slant of autumn.
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September 5, 1950 |
D4.315 | untitled
First Line: Before new love comes true and ours of old.
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January 14, 1951 |
D4.316 | “Last Division”
First Line: The gallant troop that won the desert.
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December 31, 1950 |
D4.317 | “Three Weeks with Pay”
First Line: August leaves.
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August 16, 1949 |
D4.318 | “Person to Person”
First Line: When phonedfully through nickels.
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May 22, 1946 |
D4.319 | “Vacant House”
First Line: Never believe a house is vacant.
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September 5, 1950 |
D4.320 | “Tom & Isabel”
First Line: They bell their homes with bird names.
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June 18, 1944 |
D4.321 | “Reunion [Trip Home]”
First Line: The cottonwood lets the leaves.
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September 30, 1948 |
D4.322 | “Western”
First Line: Out where the gray of dry rock.
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July 1, 1948 |
D4.323 | “On a Monument Built by an
Inn”
First Line: There near the gap of Rabbit Pass dark stones.
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June 20, 1947 |
D4.324 | “Formula”
First Line: Shoulders hurt into wings, the angels.
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March 15, 1950 |
D4.325 | “Timing”
First Line: They are building the plane that will fall.
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November 3, 1948 |
D4.326 | “Redbud Level”
First Line: The vacant eye of the carpenter’s level is pious.
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April 23, 1950 |
D4.327 | “Dear Friend”
First Line: I am reading your letter the world.
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December 1, 1944 |
D4.328 | “Mellow Land”
First Line: How quiet swims our country through alarms.
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December 31, 1950 |
D4.329 | “Spur of the Moment”
First Line: Lightning when it starts doesn’t know how.
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February 8, 1949 |
D4.330 | “Centrifugal”
First Line: Something wants out of the ground.
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August 8, 1950 |
D4.331 | “Stray Meditations”
First Line: Often I tremble.
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July 30, 1950 |
D4.332 | “Morning Look”
First Line: Each word, each thought, is hot.
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April 20, 1951 |
D4.333 | “What to Do Till Jesus Comes”
First Line: Perched in a cabin on burnt-over land.
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September 26, 1950 |
D4.334 | “One Time”
First Line: Remember when you were poor in love.
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April 10, 1951 |
D4.335 | “Cold Parties”
First Line: I saw fur foxes drinking lemonade.
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February 4, 1951 |
D4.336 | “Deep Gift”
First Line: Shook from the stormlike hand a mountain falls.
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February 6, 1951 |
D4.337 | “Still, Small”
First Line: Whatever is worst is the foundation.
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March 4, 1951 |
D4.338 | “Still, Small”
First Line: Whatever is worst is the foundation.
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March 4, 1951 |
D4.339 | “for M. McC*ll*f”
First Line: We’re bushed by God, trimmed with ten-cent shears.
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undated |
D4.339 | “for B. B*lv*n”
First Line: Roll crooked happily, marbles.
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undated |
D4.339 | “for P. *ngl*”
First Line: If it’s corn I plant, grant it be on side hills.
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undated |
D4.339 | “for Cl** Gr*ss”
First Line: Here on my lap I held Poger.
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April 30, 1951 |
D4.339 | “for J. Gr*ss”
First Line: 17th century man.
|
undated |
D4.340 | “Political Meeting”
First Line: At the corner of Third and Main, wheels.
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October 5, 1950 |
D4.341 | “Saturday Night”
First Line: The current down Main Street licks.
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August 9, 1950 |
D4.342 | “Point Blank”
First Line: The butt ends of cannon kick into neutral dirt.
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September 30, 1950 |
D4.343 | “Notes”
First Line: The Greeks and the swallows.
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October 30, 1948 |
D4.344 | “State U. (intro & five
poems)”
First Line: You go when you no loner care.
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July 17, 1947 |
D4.345 | “State U. poem V: Vale”
First Line: In the basement of the quiet hall.
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July 17, 1947 |
D4.346 | “(Prose Preface)”
First Line: Recently while prospecting..... (prose).
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August 3, 1947 |
D4.347 | “Black Rain”
First Line: The succession we saw.
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January 30, 1949 |
D4.348 | “Rule #1”
First Line: Let be the stilled middle of all the trees.
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June 9, 1948 |
D4.349 | “Lines Written Before Leaving for a
Federal Road Camp at Tucson (poem by Chuck Worley)”
First Line: The state is a great, awkward, ignorant, blundering,
bully.
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undated |
D4.350 | “Allegory/Silence/Unasked”
First Line: I cast muddy stones... (page of three poems by Mary Emily
Miller).
|
undated |
D4.351 | “Trip Home”
First Line: The cottonwood let the leaves.
|
September 30, 1948 |
D4.352 | untitled
First Line: Tho poets talk honey.
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September 29, 1944 |
D4.353 | “We Want to Be Like the
Brethren”
First Line: Where is the Good Book studied?.
|
September 3, 1944 |
D4.354 | “To a Pretty Good Friend”
First Line: You are elephant-present.
|
December 31, 1950 |
D4.355 | “Homecoming (pre- &
post-Engle)”
First Line: Under my hat I custom you intricate, Goldy.
|
undated |
D4.356 | “Bluejay Feather (pre- &
post-Engle)”
First Line: On the basement stairs I saw a bluejay feather.
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November 9, 1950 |
D4.357 | “Late at Night (pre- &
post-Engle)”
First Line: Falling separate into the dark.
|
undated |
D4.358 | “On the Moon (pre- &
post-Engle)”
First Line: It is so quiet on the moon.
|
December 31, 1950 |
D4.359 | “Outside”
First Line: I touching the earth.
|
October 17, 1947 |
D4.360 | “Verdict”
First Line: Every day knows all but the dark rooms.
|
August 28, 1947 |
D4.361 | “Carefully Blind”
First Line: The last places, tangled by nettles.
|
September 30, 1948 |
D4.362 | “Wavering [Holding the Sky]”
First Line: There was a town on the train in Colorado.
|
May 28, 1950 |
D4.363 | “All Day Long”
First Line: Plunging but silent, flanks billowing.
|
July 17, 1950 |
D4.364 | “Swimming at the Reservoir”
First Line: Doomed under quivering miles the forest.
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November 29, 1949 |
D4.365 | “Deep Listening”
First Line: The taut wire hums before it breaks.
|
March 12, 1946 |
D4.366 | “Talk on the Beach”
First Line: Remember the bright spun sound.
|
August 3, 1945 |
D4.367 | “Old-Fashioned Company”
First Line: Song, where shall I hold your tune.
|
December 11, 1946 |
D4.368 | “Like Ours”
First Line: When I chopped the pine.
|
September 25, 1946 |
D4.369 | “Forever Phone”
First Line: I called you on the forever phone.
|
February 8, 1947 |
D4.370 | “Faint Rejoinder after a Long Session on
My Poetry”
First Line: I suppose my verse is trivial.
|
October 25, 1950 |
D4.371 | “Gauges”
First Line: Wide in brimmed circle summer rolls.
|
March 24, 1948 |
D4.372 | “Every One”
First Line: The hale halt.
|
January 5, 1947 |
D4.373 | “Intent”
First Line: straying steps go bullseye plunk.
|
September 29, 1949 |
D4.374 | “At the Cemetery”
First Line: That first clod.
|
June 18, 1948 |
D4.375 | “Trust”
First Line: The horse with one white foot.
|
January 8, 1950 |
D4.376 | “Answer ‘Present’”
First Line: Different worlds.
|
October 20, 1949 |
D4.377 | “Answer ‘Present’”
First Line: Different worlds.
|
October 20, 1949 |
D4.378 | “Glimpse”
First Line: the sun flared and every shadow.
|
October 17, 1949 |
D4.379 | “Customer Notice”
First Line: First class you can’t get any more.
|
September 21, 1947 |
D4.380 | “Evening”
First Line: Now humble shadows elbow in.
|
October 2, 1941 |
D4.381 | “Wanderer”
First Line: The tunnels of the dolphin.
|
November 9, 1945 |
D4.382 | “Unparted”
First Line: Some years ago today I said goodbye.
|
June 16, 1950 |
D4.383 | “Unchanging”
First Line: Ordered by command beyond reason.
|
January 27, 1948 |
D4.384 | “All Such Homes”
First Line: In my home when all was young.
|
June 8, 1947 |
D4.385 | “I’ll Not Laugh”
First Line: I have heard others laugh, but I’ll not laugh.
|
May 14, 1944 |
D4.386 | “Convergence”
First Line: The big strong cars.
|
October 12, 1946 |
D4.387 | “IOU”
First Line: The dividends on things you did for me.
|
May 31, 1950 |
D4.388 | “Not the Time, but the Act”
First Line: I have been old all of my life, at night.
|
September 10, 1947 |
D4.389 | “Oh Never”
First Line: Because we oh no never.
|
April 1, 1942 |
D4.390 | “Overheard”
First Line: When you said that the tangled.
|
November 3, 1947 |
D4.391 | “Late Show”
First Line: The sound came out bruised over the mike.
|
November 3, 1948 |
D4.392 | “Chance”
First Line: The bones that happen to grow.
|
August 12, 1948 |
D4.393 | “Relic”
First Line: In the deep still wilderness.
|
July 25, 1947 |
D4.394 | “Relics”
First Line: In the deep still wilderness lie comets.
|
July 25, 1947 |
D4.395 | “For Keeps”
First Line: Black twig beside clear stream.
|
January 5, 1948 |
D4.396 | “Two Weeks a Year”
First Line: Hot colored birds quenched in a cedar.
|
June 15, 1947 |
D4.397 | “Selections”
First Line: All those moonbeams counted spider strings.
|
March 23, 1947 |
D4.398 | “Noon Field”
First Line: The little beards peck at our socks.
|
May 20, 1949 |
D4.399 | “Lit. I”
First Line: Wordsworth was afraid.
|
July 15, 1950 |
D4.400 | “War History”
First Line: When they got the yearplows out.
|
March 2, 1945 |
D4.401 | “Social Equals”
First Line: There is a honed, low way of breathing.
|
September 17, 1947 |
D4.402 | “Didn’t Meet”
First Line: Nearest on a river bend but lost.
|
February 20, 1950 |
D4.403 | “Still, Small”
First Line: The little cable goldly towed the pilgrim.
|
April 14, 1947 |
D4.404 | “Grandma Used to Say”
First Line: What there’s a lot of.
|
September 21, 1947 |
D4.405 | “On Shipboard”
First Line: That world the sea makes tall.
|
February 5, 1947 |
D4.406 | “Seeing Someone Stumble”
First Line: They could all go loser down fallen.
|
June 29, 1950 |
D4.407 | “Memo”
First Line: I loaned my mouth your name one winter day.
|
August 30, 1948 |
D4.408 | “Level Eyed”
First Line: Room after room in all the rows.
|
June 18, 1947 |
D4.409 | “Twilight Recital”
First Line: Every night bangs down on little birds that sing.
|
June 17, 1946 |
D4.410 | “Return”
First Line: Home through the flashing lights.
|
January 4, 1946 |
D4.411 | “Project”
First Line: There slow and wide, looming from earth.
|
April 11, 1946 |
D4.412 | “Margin”
First Line: The meeting of what holds all.
|
April 27, 1948 |
D4.413 | “Current”
First Line: All braided into torrents falls.
|
August 15, 1943 |
D4.414 | “Request”
First Line: Fledge me low words.
|
June 3, 1947 |
D4.415 | “Pace”
First Line: The river I live in has two currents.
|
June 30, 1950 |
D4.416 | “Seeing “As You Like It””
First Line: On a stage of stone they played comedy.
|
August 5, 1950 |
D4.417 | “20th Century Worm”
First Line: Onto your flat country.
|
August 5, 1950 |
D4.418 | “For the Record”
First Line: The great slow moving of earth.
|
May 7, 1942 |
D4.419 | “Tentatively Speaking”
First Line: Today I heard a voice, and it called my name.
|
February 4, 1948 |
D4.420 | “Epistle to Late Talkers”
First Line: My lady feels a certain kind.
|
September 5, 1947 |
D4.421 | untitled
First Line: Vibrating sand, backed into corners.
|
August 31, 1949 |
D4.422 | “Possession”
First Line: Out of all reason rich.
|
February 17, 1947 |
D4.423 | “Beside the Arroyo”
First Line: Water touches the stone element.
|
July 12, 1950 |
D4.424 | “Holiday, 1949”
First Line: The afternoon wind quotes the South.
|
September 4, 1948 |
D4.425 | “Rocking”
First Line: Over down wave the up sky banners.
|
August 27, 1949 |
D4.426 | “(Sheaf of seven poems)”
First Line: Seven poems / translations by friends of WS, 1945/1946.
|
undated |
D4.427 | “Four Friends”
First Line: Four of my friends are standing in the dark.
|
February 21, 1950 |
D4.428 | “Offered Level”
First Line: Breath needs all we own.
|
October 6, 1949 |
D4.429 | “Women”
First Line: One learned it when he was Saul.
|
September 14, 1947 |
D4.430 | “Who Bow”
First Line: Who bow like palms.
|
June 2, 1947 |
D4.431 | “Little Song for Christmas
[Madrigal]”
First Line: The snow melted on Christmas Eve.
|
March 17, 1950 |
D4.432 | “Short Story”
First Line: Like a big black dog I followed your question home.
|
March 11, 1945 |
D4.433 | “Inside Engines”
First Line: There is no way to save the bearing.
|
October 6, 1947 |
D4.434 | “Christian Trolling Offshore”
First Line: Fallen statues under cooling stars.
|
October 23, 1949 |
D4.435 | “Stranger”
First Line: There is a person who listens.
|
September 18, 1943 |
D4.436 | “Disturbing Influence”
First Line: Things you did.
|
May 3, 1947 |
D4.437 | “Speech from the Big Play [height over the
cabin], pp.1/2”
First Line: Not many of you in the world remember.
|
November 1, 1944 |
D4.438 | “Powerhouse”
First Line: Some gear turned slow and sure.
|
May 25, 1947 |
D4.439 | “Postwar Niblets”
First Line: The little table by the big entrance.
|
September 24, 1947 |
D4.440 | “Counsel”
First Line: If any ask, say yes.
|
May 24, 1944 |
D4.441 | untitled
First Line: The windswept words that Plato said.
|
April 17, 1945 |
D4.442 | “When through the Rain”
First Line: When through the rain.
|
March 14, 1948 |
D4.443 | “Be Counted”
First Line: Bend always, but never break.
|
January 10, 1948 |
D4.444 | “Night Run”
First Line: Smoking out yells flattened backward .
|
May 20, 1947 |
D4.445 | “Passing Remarks”
First Line: Have you found your host?.
|
November 3, 1947 |
D4.446 | untitled
First Line: Artists are.
|
January 23, 1946 |
D4.447 | “Plunge”
First Line: Because it fell and fell and always fell.
|
July 21, 1946 |
D4.448 | “Current Interest”
First Line: By chance the eye nose mouth, the flat of jaw.
|
January 1, 1940 |
D4.449 | untitled
First Line: Did he fail through his fault, I wonder?.
|
May 6, 1942 |
D4.450 | “Materials”
First Line: Square brick flat side straight face, clear, known.
|
July 3, 1947 |
D4.451 | “Service”
First Line: All of my stumbling life, each motion.
|
January 4, 1950 |
D4.452 | “Northern Coast”
First Line: Down here off the leaned back land.
|
August 3, 1947 |
D4.453 | “Recall”
First Line: Image of me, I follow, eyes closed.
|
January 5, 1949 |
D4.454 | untitled
First Line: That front porch over chaos.
|
April 3, 1945 |
D4.455 | “[Poem by Tom Miller]”
First Line: Your words,.
|
undated |
D4.456 | [Poem by Bill Read]
First Line: Twelve butterflies....
|
undated |
D4.457 | [Poem by Bill Read]
First Line: In the twenty-fourth....
|
undated |
D4.458 | [Poem by Jim Harmon]
First Line: You shall never know....
|
undated |
D4.459 | untitled
First Line: [Six poems by Ercel Lynn].
|
undated |
D4.460 | “Receivers”
First Line: Across the highways.
|
October 8, 1941 |
D4.461 | “Communication to the
Alienated”
First Line: This turn of the hand is for them.
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April 1, 1942 |
D4.462 | untitled
First Line: Jagged as hate.
|
July 27, 1945 |
D4.463 | “Travel Report: 1945”
First Line: Saying “King’s X,” a man might walk.
|
February 2, 1945 |
D4.464 | untitled
First Line: A loose picket on our fence.
|
October 10, 1949 |
D4.465 | “Dangers”
First Line: Out of any yard or porch may charge.
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May 22, 1949 |
D4.466 | “Sources”
First Line: Every tall tree grown.
|
September 8, 1948 |
D4.467 | “On the Track”
First Line: My world is just a bad habit.
|
June 11, 1949 |
D4.468 | “Acquaintance”
First Line: Slithering down the flume from Arapaho.
|
August 31, 1949 |
D4.469 | untitled
First Line: Too true for bartering, my simple love.
|
May 9, 1942 |
D4.470 | untitled
First Line: Young drivers goad the horses.
|
September 12, 1948 |
D4.471 | untitled
First Line: This job aloft and with sails.
|
April 25, 1950 |
D4.472 | untitled
First Line: Just at sundown, this is the heart.
|
September 1, 1943 |
D4.473 | “Nocturne”
First Line: Gone, gone. So silent.
|
October 22, 1943 |
D4.474 | “New Hunt”
First Line: Then they broke through the level light.
|
June 1, 1950 |
D4.475 | “Their Marriage”
First Line: Becomes braided.
|
June 1, 1950 |
D4.476 | “Now”
First Line: Our weight swings on a sagging hinge.
|
December 18, 1947 |
D4.477 | “Agate”
First Line: The crude jaggeds from our mouths.
|
June 10, 1947 |
D4.478 | “Myth of the Windblown Hair”
First Line: There are tall in this town buildings.
|
October 29, 1947 |
D4.479 | “Following Away”
First Line: The more away geese went.
|
November 28, 1949 |
D4.480 | untitled
First Line: Turn off the lamp, wait.
|
October 23, 1943 |
D4.481 | “Fate”
First Line: More steadfast than a truck.
|
March 13, 1944 |
D4.482 | “For the Long Affair”
First Line: The only remembered one slim.
|
March 3, 1950 |
D4.483 | “From Destiny On”
First Line: When the river came over the boards.
|
March 16, 1948 |
D4.484 | “They Tell Me”
First Line: You’ve got to hold onto your hat.
|
October 8, 1945 |
D4.485 | “Propaganda Broadcast”
First Line: The little ones carry it with dangers.
|
February 10, 1947 |
D4.486 | “How Two Do”
First Line: One, himself.
|
December 17, 1947 |
D4.487 | “Easy Art”
First Line: They have preached flowers long.
|
January 15, 1946 |
D4.488 | “Country Boy at College,
Postwar”
First Line: There was yearned.
|
December 5, 1946 |
D4.489 | untitled
First Line: Some would deny me the lolling.
|
July 28, 1945 |
D4.490 | untitled
First Line: They will never know.
|
January 28, 1945 |
D4.491 | untitled
First Line: Over the candle we looked at us, each one.
|
November 17, 1945 |
D4.492 | “For the Record”
First Line: Out there living among them all.
|
October 9, 1947 |
D4.493 | “Gleaning”
First Line: Occupation - teaching they say, but.
|
October 19, 1949 |
D4.494 | untitled
First Line: At the state fair on exhibit.
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August 31, 1950 |
D4.495 | untitled
First Line: At the state fair on exhibit.
|
August 31, 1950 |
D4.496 | “Right Thing”
First Line: Our great roar- wheel.
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November 18, 1947 |
D4.497 | “Campfire Tale”
First Line: Something I want to tell you.
|
July 3, 1949 |
D4.498 | “Memo”
First Line: When you radared me with maybegrams.
|
December 10, 1946 |
D4.499 | “Wind Gift”
First Line: For you, something not put.
|
December 27, 1947 |
D4.500 | “Now and Then”
First Line: The old orchard I have kept.
|
September 10, 1946 |
D4.501 | “Far Down”
First Line: The pulse I have counted on the white throat.
|
March 9, 1950 |
D4.502 | “Immediate”
First Line: If there is anyone.
|
February 14, 1944 |
D4.503 | untitled
First Line: No bubble from the dark disturbs the street.
|
June 14, 1944 |
D4.504 | untitled
First Line: Over the city leaned the windy stars.
|
March 3, 1945 |
D4.505 | “Sudden”
First Line: Count over in your dark the rows.
|
May 1, 1946 |
D4.506 | “Beginning of a War”
First Line: About here, the sky goes under.
|
April 10, 1947 |
D4.507 | “Beginning of Hostilities”
First Line: About here the sky goes under.
|
April 10, 1947 |
D4.508 | “General Prescription”
First Line: Straight under taut eyes.
|
November 26, 1949 |
D4.509 | “Love Was a Pup”
First Line: When I was a kid, then love was a pup.
|
April 18, 1946 |
D4.510 | untitled
First Line: Lonesomely is lovely.
|
May 21, 1946 |
D4.511 | “Lonely Blues”
First Line: Along about weary when sunset names my room.
|
August 10, 1945 |
D4.512 | “Concordance”
First Line: Let me hear so well.
|
October 23, 1949 |
D4.513 | “With No Blast”
First Line: Nice and correct, with no blast.
|
March 7, 1950 |
D4.514 | “One Friend”
First Line: To drink the dark we close the eyes.
|
November 1, 1944 |
D4.515 | untitled
First Line: Maizie models the strapless suit.
|
May 11, 1950 |
D4.516 | “Rumination: Noon”
First Line: Waited while he told the approved way .
|
December 9, 1947 |
D4.517 | [Poem by Winona Brettman]
First Line: Slyly from....
|
undated |
D4.518 | [Poem by Winona Brettman]
First Line: When sweet ....
|
undated |
D4.519 | [Poem by Winona Brettman]
First Line: Remember....
|
undated |
D4.520 | [List of titles]
First Line: A Christmas....
|
undated |
C1: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1977Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C1.1 | “All Changing”
First Line: Sometimes the track will curve.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C1.2 | “All of Us [Paying Your Dues]”
First Line: Sometimes a flame finds a certain tree [This is the
story...].
Accepted by: CEA Critic.
|
April 5, 1977 |
C1.3 | “Althea”
First Line: No light woke me, no sound.
Accepted by: Blue Unicorn.
|
December 1, 1974 |
C1.4 | “Asking You to Turn These Fiction
Pages”
First Line: Those earlier pages were only important - great.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C1.5 | “Assignment”
First Line: Draw what is inside things: if sight didn’t.
Accepted by: Modern Poetry Studies.
|
March 16, 1977 |
C1.6 | “Australia”
First Line: The sound the sun makes when it hits your skin.
Accepted by: Poetry Review (UK).
|
August 1, 1977 |
C1.7 | “Beginning”
First Line: Once upon a time nothing happened.
Accepted by: Late Harvest.
|
March 1, 1975 |
C1.8 | “Berryman”
First Line: If you are no one’s copy, if you set.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.9 | “Child You Were”
First Line: Once in leaves buried in a park.
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
May 1, 1973 |
C1.10 | “Duet for Typewriters”
First Line: First typewriter.
Accepted by: CEA Critic.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C1.11 | “Duty Visit”
First Line: The light that sprang crazy into their lives.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.12 | “Explaining to Buckley”
First Line: Some of us make mistakes, you know.
Accepted by: MSS.
|
April 1, 1981 |
C1.13 | “Feeling the Pressure”
First Line: Before the house wakes up in the morning.
Accepted by: Aura.
|
October 17, 1977 |
C1.14 | “Free-form Inwroughts”
First Line: Branched in the ground, roots run.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
May 1, 1977 |
C1.15 | “Giving You Something”
First Line: Days when you live come across.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C1.16 | “Going to Work”
First Line: In the elevator we talked four floors, then.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.17 | “Haines Place, Mile 68, Fairbanks
Highway”
First Line: It’s.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C1.18 | “How Dancing Began”
First Line: One day Little Drum was going along.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.19 | “Interludes”
First Line: A nest, hay and horsehair, clung.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.20 | “It Can Happen”
First Line: Sometimes it happens you’re expected.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C1.21 | “Leaving Montaigne”
First Line: It all runs - water, wind, the world.
Accepted by: Blue Unicorn.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C1.22 | “Lesson in “Modern Lit””
First Line: Why care whether the cherry trees.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C1.23 | “Locating Today / Centering”
First Line: This is only today. We can.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
July 1, 1974 |
C1.24 | “Logan Canyon”
First Line: Avalanche coming down the canyon.
Accepted by: Blue Fife.
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April 1, 1977 |
C1.25 | “Memorial Service for a
Colleague”
First Line: After he was dead they praised.
Accepted by: Literary Review, Lewis & Clark.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C1.26 | “News Events”
First Line: Alone as an ant exploring a leaf.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C1.26 | “Next Room”
First Line: It was our life, all our life.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
July 1, 1976 |
C1.27 | “Night”
First Line: Night comes inside you. When you.
Accepted by: Sandlapper.
|
May 1, 1975 |
C1.28 | “Report on the Young”
First Line: Some of them are still saying.
Accepted by: CEA Critic.
|
September 1, 1975 |
C1.29 | “Staying Free in Salt Lake”
First Line: An unplanned inkblot here means.
Accepted by: Blue Fife.
|
August 1, 1976 |
C1.30 | “Still Life”
First Line: Someone is telling a friend about.
Accepted by: CEA Critic.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C1.31 | “Thinking About Someone Gone”
First Line: No one but Ruth fell. Before we could.
Accepted by: Sam Houston Literary Review.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C1.32 | “Lucky Person [Two Poems with One Ending
1]”
First Line: Like the nothing Mozart used.
Accepted by: Inquiry.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C1.33 | “Ways of Seeing”
First Line: Waves that were random.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C1.34 | “Weathervane”
First Line: Open to the warm air, true.
Accepted by: Wang Hui-Ming.
|
September 1, 1975 |
C1.35 | “When You Close Your Eyes”
First Line: Outside will be dark, even the stars.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
November 1, 1976 |
C2: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1978Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C2
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C2.1 | “All Day on the Hills”
First Line: Where you come, fog; where.
Accepted by: Blue Beech.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C2.2 | “Another Time, Another War”
First Line: The mob that captured me that day resented.
Accepted by: Paumanock Rising.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C2.3 | “At a Bus Stop”
First Line: Light comes down in a V.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C2.4 | “Becoming a Number”
First Line: While announcements come I stand in the sun.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
September 12, 1978 |
C2.5 | “Berkeley, Madison, Ann Arbor,
Kent”
First Line: In every city I want to listen: people.
Accepted by: Berkeley Monthly.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C2.6 | “Blocked from the Mississippi by a
Military Post”
First Line: There’s a law, but steel can’t read.
Accepted by: Apple Street Anthology.
|
November 1, 1977 |
C2.7 | “Skittery Sprinkler Song: Summer of
Drouth”
First Line: Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
|
July 2, 1977 |
C2.8 | “Certain Gate”
First Line: A vein in the forehead knows - all.
Accepted by: Field.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C2.9 | “Coming Back to Richmond”
First Line: You forget, elsewhere, how easy the air is.
Accepted by: New Virginia Review.
|
November 4, 1977 |
C2.10 | “Contributor’s Note”
First Line: My shoes are laced with old bowstring.
Accepted by: National Forum.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C2.11 | “Dreaming Contemporary”
First Line: Air meets lung, and they get along.
Accepted by: Cloud Street Lewis & Clark.
|
undated |
C2.12 | “Far in the World”
First Line: There are warm places. In Alaska for miles.
Accepted by: Rolling Stone.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.13 | “Flaubert at Croisset”
First Line: The wind would veer, and over the sound.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
undated |
C2.14 | “For You, Walt Whitman”
First Line: Here is a message for you - the whole world sent it.
Accepted by: West Hills.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C2.15 | “Gasoline”
First Line: The smell ready as fire seeks out.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1977 |
C2.16 | “Hand-made Book”
First Line: It’s maple I think, leaf, winged.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
December 1, 1977 |
C2.17 | “Happenings”
First Line: Now in a room slid into quiet, like a receiver.
Accepted by: Perception.
|
July 1, 1976 |
C2.18 | “Hoping to Be Caught Up in the
World”
First Line: Anything proclaimed in the best lie, even.
Accepted by: New Virginia Review.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C2.19 | “Incident”
First Line: My hands are lying before me extended from shadow.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
February 1, 1978 |
C2.20 | “Inside Conference
Headquarters”
First Line: Practicing for winter, we shiver.
Accepted by: Silverfish Review.
|
August 1, 1978 |
C2.21 | “Jogging the Camber”
First Line: Taking the road, alternating steps on the camber.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
December 1, 1977 |
C2.22 | “Leaving a Place”
First Line: Because earth curves and we walk away on it.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.23 | “Lecture Notes, in the Margin [2
pp.]”
First Line: Teachers are the subjects of my study.
Accepted by: Happiness Holding Tank.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C2.24 | “Letting Them Have It”
First Line: You check out of a big hotel. If the manager.
Accepted by: Dacotah Territory.
|
December 1, 1977 |
C2.25 | “Little Reports”
First Line: Two girls in the third grade have given.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C2.26 | “Locked on Our Way”
First Line: We left a light on in that cave. Some.
Accepted by: San Jose Studies.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C2.27 | “Making the Scene at a Writers’
Conference”
First Line: Coming near, I watch their faces.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C2.28 | “Midnight Service for a Friend Now
Gone”
First Line: We all have to touch the earth, but some.
Accepted by: Portland Review.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C2.29 | “Muir in the Mountains”
First Line: While people decide they will judge you wrong.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
February 1, 1978 |
C2.30 | “Once When I Was Little”
First Line: They said “See you tomorrow” and.
Accepted by: Rolling Stone.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.31 | “On Deerpath Road”
First Line: It will be like running, and the part.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.32 | “Passing a Creche”
First Line: Sometimes past a Christmas light in the evening.
Accepted by: Sea Pen Press .
|
September 1, 1978 |
C2.33 | “Passing Our Playground”
First Line: Where children play at the edge of the forest.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
July 25, 1978 |
C2.34 | “Pines at La Grande”
First Line: They came along the edge one.
Accepted by: High Country News.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C2.35 | “Places”
First Line: Here is a place honored for what it used to be.
Accepted by: Quarterly West.
|
October 1, 1977 |
C2.36 | “Places to Live”
First Line: At Brothers, in the open, there’s.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C2.37 | “Receiving the Gift”
First Line: Running along the road before sunrise.
Accepted by: Crazy Horse.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C2.38 | “Report from the Acting
Workshop”
First Line: Actors are like us, only more so, and.
Accepted by: Beyond Baroque.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C2.39 | “Resolutions”
First Line: Watch and keys on a chair and our cups.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1977 |
C2.40 | “Review of Arthur Koestler’s The
Watershed, a Life of Kepler”
First Line: While Earth swings wide and our land loses.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
February 1, 1978 |
C2.41 | “Scenes That Esc aped from James Dickey
Poems”
First Line: One place - it’s an island with a lake.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C2.42 | “Six O’Clock”
First Line: In shadows, where truth is, a new shadow.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
February 1, 1978 |
C2.43 | “Someone”
First Line: Someone who could never listen, could never.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
|
October 17, 1977 |
C2.44 | “Something Has Happened to Us - at Quartz
Mountain”
First Line: One rock nuzzles the next and says nothing.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C2.45 | “Staging the Real”
First Line: Turning from what is behind them, two people.
Accepted by: Southern Poetry Review.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C2.46 | “Story Foghorns Tell”
First Line: Finally they all turned gray - the great gray.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C2.47 | “Story of My Life”
First Line: In my life I had forgotten, but once.
Accepted by: Berkeley Monthly.
|
August 1, 1978 |
C2.48 | “Surveying for the Pipeline”
First Line: After the earthquake we threw away.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
|
December 1, 1976 |
C2.49 | “Talk at the Beginning of
Class”
First Line: What you are worth appears on your still.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C2.50 | “Texas Still Life - for Bill
Wiman”
First Line: It’s the boots make it Texas. Not really.
Accepted by: Dacotah Territory.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C2.51 | “Thinking in the All-Nighter”
First Line: Considering a simple sound like “No”.
Accepted by: Silverfish Review.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C2.52 | “Any Morning [Three Stories from Inside
James Dickey’s Guitar 1]”
First Line: One morning you are a ghost. The world.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C2.53 | “By a Late Fire [Three Stories from Inside
James Dickey’s Guitar 2]”
First Line: It burns in the mind like juniper, steady.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C2.54 | “Afterwards [Three Stories from Inside
James Dickey’s Guitar 3]”
First Line: High in an oak you listen quietly.
Accepted by: South Carolina Review.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C2.55 | “Today”
First Line: At dawn, carrying my cup, I stood.
Accepted by: Greenfield Review.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.56 | “Totem People, Street People”
First Line: They need a bird, some thing to say.
Accepted by: San Jose Studies.
|
December 1, 1976 |
C2.57 | “Walk in Chicago”
First Line: A person in Chicago walks from the lake.
Accepted by: Tusitala.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C2.58 | “Ways to Save You”
First Line: Your picture has fallen into the fire.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C2.59 | “Why Tomorrow Is Coming”
First Line: What you hear when all else goes quiet, even.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
November 1, 1978 |
C2.60 | “What We Learned on Vacation”
First Line: The same bird sings at all.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C2.61 | “With Thanks for a Gift of a Jar of
Patchouli”
First Line: Again you forget, but in this jar.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
August 1, 1978 |
C2.62 | “You Didn’t”
First Line: You didn’t happen to meet someone wandering.
Accepted by: Silverfish Review.
|
May 1, 1977 |
C3: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1979Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C3
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C3.1 | “Abstractions, Defined by
Examples”
First Line: Space” is where time goes on a vacation.
Accepted by: Unmuzzled Ox.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C3.2 | “Across Another Range”
First Line: There are songs that save their treasure.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
March 1, 1979 |
C3.3 | “Arts at the Coast”
First Line: Kite flyers, builders of sandhouses.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
July 1, 1979 |
C3.4 | “At Max Wickert’s Place”
First Line: I felt evening flow past outside. We all.
Accepted by: Pequod.
|
July 1, 1979 |
C3.5 | “Beyond Appearances”
First Line: Wherever the next place is, here comes.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
May 1, 1979 |
C3.6 | “Big Schoolhouse”
First Line: This new world found in the morning.
Accepted by: The Heart of Knowing.
|
July 1, 1979 |
C3.7 | “Cape Disappointment”
First Line: Things that will never be told.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
September 1, 1977 |
C3.8 | “Center of the World”
First Line: When I wasn’t yet born, my head was growing.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
January 1, 1979 |
C3.9 | “Chauvinism”
First Line: If you hadn’t prevailed you could say “Look.
Accepted by: Helix.
|
November 1, 1978 |
C3.10 | “Definitions”
First Line: What is woe? The last wolf in Colorado.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
April 1, 1979 |
C3.11 | “Edward Abbey”
First Line: His hobby is being alone. When a path.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C3.12 | “Enlightenment”
First Line: Let light from any idea spread.
Accepted by: Poetry Australia.
|
February 1, 1978 |
C3.13 | “Faculty Transport”
First Line: This car, horsepower quivering, lost.
Accepted by: Harpoon.
|
June 9, 1979 |
C3.14 | “For the Tribes in the Grass”
First Line: Those little tribes in the grass who never.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C3.15 | “Glance at Clouds”
First Line: Clouds in their big suits with zippers in the back.
Accepted by: Mountain Writers Quarterly.
|
February 1, 1979 |
C3.16 | “Hunger for Stories”
First Line: By now it’s not Japan or a bell.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
June 1, 1979 |
C3.17 | “Immediate Things”
First Line: It’s a fast reminder, tapping on your skull.
Accepted by: Tinderbox.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C3.18 | “Instead of a Bark Sandal - for the Cave
at Fort Rock”
First Line: A way of wandering, so as to.
Accepted by: Oregon East.
|
December 1, 1974 |
C3.19 | “It’s Funny”
First Line: Go ahead, laugh.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
May 1, 1978 |
C3.20 | “Jogger Tales”
First Line: Jogging down through town, following.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C3.21 | “Learning a Word While
Climbing”
First Line: Once I fell, already falling, and from that fall.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1978 |
C3.22 | “Living with Genius”
First Line: A rumor of the sun: Genius comes out.
Accepted by: Harpoon.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C3.23 | “Long Lens”
First Line: A wave suddenly still, a bird stopped.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C3.24 | “Morning in Port”
First Line: Before day a ship in the fog sent out.
Accepted by: Daily Olympian 1/21/79.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C3.25 | “Night Train”
First Line: Late, it winds like a snake.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
May 1, 1979 |
C3.26 | “Norse Outpost on Greenland”
First Line: Like the whales when their world feels already.
Accepted by: Permafrost.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C3.27 | “Old Friends in the Rain”
First Line: For years they don’t exist. Rain.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
November 5, 1979 |
C3.28 | “Old Songs”
First Line: What I do is, when I sing - go back.
Accepted by: KSOR Guide, Ashland.
|
August 1, 1978 |
C3.29 | “Once a Year”
First Line: Tomorrow is your birthday. The person.
Accepted by: Helix.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C3.30 | “One of the Fathers”
First Line: He sentenced The North. There was no fugitive.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
June 1, 1979 |
C3.31 | “Passing Mount Hope Cemetery”
First Line: Fireflies come on, one whole self.
Accepted by: Westigan Review.
|
July 1, 1979 |
C3.32 | “Presences”
First Line: Why do the trees where I am working.
Accepted by: Daily Olympian 1/21/79.
|
January 1, 1978 |
C3.33 | “Rainbow Meets Water”
First Line: Most of us is water. “Shall we join.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
January 1, 1979 |
C3.34 | “Repetitions”
First Line: Sometimes at a window a storm voice comes.
Accepted by: Helix.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C3.35 | “Room”
First Line: Mostly the blossoms drift by, but one day.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C3.36 | “Something About Life”
First Line: Now that it’s over, you want it even more.
Accepted by: Mountain Writers Quarterly.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C3.37 | “That Picture of the Kids Walking Away
Down an Alley”
First Line: If I could bring their faces toward me.
Accepted by: South and West.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C3.38 | “These Hands”
First Line: Once they could hold (though they dropped.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
November 1, 1978 |
C3.39 | “Things Not in the Story”
First Line: Most things are impossible - but I think.
Accepted by: Pequod.
|
July 1, 1979 |
C3.40 | “Thinking a Place”
First Line: A light left on makes a soft yellow.
Accepted by: Tinderbox.
|
September 1, 1979 |
C3.41 | “This Time”
First Line: Everything has changed. Hills.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
January 24, 1979 |
C3.42 | “This Year”
First Line: In the open on a lawn someone’s.
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
October 1, 1979 |
C3.43 | “Transience”
First Line: Without anyone knowing, hitchhiker winter.
Accepted by: KSOR guide (Ashland).
|
September 1, 1979 |
C3.44 | “Two Seasons”
First Line: Geese go by. It’s fall.
Accepted by: Maypole Oranoutang Express.
|
September 1, 1979 |
C3.45 | “Valdez”
First Line: In old Valdez houses wait along the street.
Accepted by: Permafrost.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C3.46 | “Walking Through Texas”
First Line: One arrow says west, one.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C3.47 | “Watching Her Go”
First Line: Tomorrow has come for her face, for its pay.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
November 1, 1978 |
C3.48 | “Word for the Cliche”
First Line: Inside my life it is reflected light.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C3.49 | “Yesterday”
First Line: So high it falls in whispers.
Accepted by: Rainbow.
|
April 1, 1976 |
C4: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1980Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C4
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C4.1 | “Donations of Light - for a showing of
Barabara’s pictures ”
First Line: If you touch these pictures their virtue.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
October 1, 1979 |
C4.2 | “Introducing a Display of
Pictures”
First Line: Look, God, at what we found in your meadow.
Accepted by: Phoebe.
|
October 1, 1979 |
C4.3 | “At the Reunion”
First Line: By looking at a stranger’s face I made.
Accepted by: Long Pond Review.
|
March 1, 1980 |
C4.4 | “At the University”
First Line: They take you on a walk and say.
Accepted by: Corona.
|
July 1, 1977 |
C4.5 | “Big Wave”
First Line: Eye-window of the soul, bring us that big wave.
Accepted by: Coe Review.
|
January 1, 1980 |
C4.6 | “Candidate’s Second Chance”
First Line: It all dissolved last time but has come back.
Accepted by: Esquirer.
|
July 26, 1980 |
C4.7 | “Coming Back to Kansas”
First Line: I smelled the river, no one there, a sound.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Press.
|
September 1, 1979 |
C4.8 | “Critic Opens a Door [Four Moves of the
Critic 1]”
First Line: Winter will kiss you: when the wind.
Accepted by: .
|
December 18, 1979 |
C4.9 | “Critic Meets Another Person [Four Moves
of the Critic 2]”
First Line: What does it mean, the way.
Accepted by: .
|
December 1, 1979 |
C4.10 | “Critic Goes Camping [Four Moves of the
Critic 3]”
First Line: At the edge you stop walking and put down.
Accepted by: .
|
December 1, 1979 |
C4.11 | “Critic Gets Up Early”
First Line: You get up early so there will be.
Accepted by: .
|
December 1, 1979 |
C4.12 | “Life, a Gift, an Island”
First Line: This gift, life - maybe far north, maybe.
Accepted by: West Hills Review.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C4.13 | “Life in the Fashion Pages”
First Line: Secure in myself, dressed right.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C4.14 | “Looking at an Old School
Album”
First Line: Now in steady light I hold.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind #2.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C4.15 | “Missionary Meadowlark”
First Line: Is there a world to.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Press.
|
December 1, 1979 |
C4.16 | “Morning Thoughts”
First Line: Fence posts went away in the mist. After.
Accepted by: Puerto del Sol.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C4.17 | “Nada - Explaining Lightning”
First Line: A narrow track.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
November 1, 1974 |
C4.18 | “Not Being Careful”
First Line: All your years learning how to live to win.
Accepted by: MSS.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C4.19 | “Orchard: Things You Almost
Remember”
First Line: Orchard, no one there. A sound.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
December 26, 1979 |
C4.20 | “Oregon Haiku”
First Line: Coyotes live it up.
Accepted by: Coyote’s Journal.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C4.21 | “Outsider”
First Line: Some read one side of the page, and some.
Accepted by: Chock 2/80.
|
May 1, 1979 |
C4.22 | “Passing a Farm”
First Line: A curtain moves, a shadow goes darker.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind .
|
February 1, 1980 |
C4.23 | “Prayer word: At Cry of the Loon Lodge
”
First Line: Say the island you are on is.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
February 1, 1980 |
C4.24 | “Return to Garden City”
First Line: By now it’s history, how they came in.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Press.
|
September 1, 1979 |
C4.25 | “They Came for Me Last Night”
First Line: My ghost had already gone. It left, one.
Accepted by: Gramercy Review.
|
August 1, 1978 |
C4.26 | “Saving Things”
First Line: In shabby boxes in the attic I have.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
June 10, 1980 |
C4.27 | “Virginia’s Report”
First Line: On the Orkney Islands Virginia saw.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
July 1, 1978 |
C4.28 | “Voter’s Late Returns”
First Line: My vote floats awhile, turns aside.
Accepted by: Esquirer.
|
March 1, 1980 |
C4.29 | “Weapons”
First Line: By Whiskey Spring lay an arrowhead.
Accepted by: Gramercy Review.
|
October 1, 1979 |
C4.30 | “Where I Live”
First Line: This world has a tall roof. Wind.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
March 1, 1980 |
C4.31 | “While Waiting for It to
Happen”
First Line: They say air can move but leave a cloud.
Accepted by: Corona.
|
June 1, 1978 |
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Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C5
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C5.1 | “Alone Late at Night”
First Line: Face in the mirror, I’m sorry. I place.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
October 1, 1980 |
C5.2 | “Anniversaries”
First Line: We press close and hear those wings.
Accepted by: Jawbone Press broadside.
|
April 1, 1981 |
C5.3 | “At Night”
First Line: Something is going by. You bow.
Accepted by: Webster Review.
|
March 1, 1978 |
C5.4 | “At the Robert Frost Memorial
”
First Line: We stand on marble here, the way he stood.
Accepted by: Negative Capability.
|
August 18, 1981 |
C5.5 | “Being Innocent”
First Line: Whenever you enter a room.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
June 1, 1981 |
C5.6 | “Bringing Something to Bowling
Green”
First Line: There’s a world out there that this world blinds.
Accepted by: Mid-American Review.
|
February 1, 1981 |
C5.7 | “Chair in the Meadow”
First Line: This time of year The North goes by, bird.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
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August 13, 1981 |
C5.8 | “Choosing a Manuscript ”
First Line: You tell by something you can’t quite.
Accepted by: Conjunctions.
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July 30, 1979 |
C5.9 | “Close Friend”
First Line: What is it, my life, you are hiding? - so quiet.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
January 1, 1981 |
C5.10 | “Elms in Winter”
First Line: We scribble the sky.
Accepted by: South Dakota Review.
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November 5, 1980 |
C5.11 | “Farewell - But Hail - to a
Friend”
First Line: Composed like snow along a fence.
Accepted by: Robert Hogan retirement, CCCC.
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January 1, 1981 |
C5.12 | “For a Daughter Gone Away”
First Line: When they shook the box, and poured out its chances.
Accepted by: Antaeus.
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June 1, 1981 |
C5.13 | “For English 210 at Cheney”
First Line: We could read everything - clouds, gophers.
Accepted by: Willow Springs.
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February 1, 1981 |
C5.14 | “For the Barn at Bread Loaf”
First Line: Caught in a cloud this morning, this barn.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1981 |
C5.15 | “Goodby from St. Helens”
First Line: The earth sleeps, but it is alive.
Accepted by: Pendragon.
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June 4, 1980 |
C5.16 | “Grandmother”
First Line: It could have been Lubbock.
Accepted by: South Dakota Review.
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November 25, 1979 |
C5.17 | “Happy Note”
First Line: Someone was whistling. It was easy afternoon.
Accepted by: Webster Review.
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May 1, 1978 |
C5.18 | “Hi-Fi”
First Line: This little quail sound means evening.
Accepted by: Willow Springs.
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January 1, 1981 |
C5.19 | “In Traffic”
First Line: They don’t care who you are till you begin.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
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June 1, 1981 |
C5.20 | “Learning at Westminster”
First Line: The workers taught me - how they leveled.
Accepted by: Westminster College.
|
March 1, 1981 |
C5.21 | “Living Out Here”
First Line: Out here I have missed many advantages.
Accepted by: South Dakota Review.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C5.22 | “Lost in the Centuries”
First Line: I went out on a week end. Quiet had come back.
Accepted by: Memphis State Review.
|
January 19, 1981 |
C5.23 | “Mutability”
First Line: Silent imperceptible prayers blow over.
Accepted by: Field.
|
January 1, 1981 |
C5.24 | “Notes for the Refrigerator
Door”
First Line: In any house there should be much reading that.
Accepted by: Bellevue Press broadside and Gilt Edge.
|
undated |
C5.25 | “Notice: A Bly Prescription”
First Line: These pages are good for you; they enhance.
Accepted by: Poetry East.
|
November 20, 1980 |
C5.26 | “Oboe”
First Line: There is a truth down.
Accepted by: Mid South Writer.
|
June 1, 1978 |
C5.27 | “Places”
First Line: At Lindsborg they have a rock. It’s tall.
Accepted by: South Dakota Review.
|
December 1, 1980 |
C5.28 | “Postcards from Abroad”
First Line: That’s always me, vague in the foreground.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
October 1, 1981 |
C5.29 | “Quitting a Job”
First Line: Time of winter, freezing rain, long roads. I.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
February 1, 1980 |
C5.30 | “Sleeping at a Friend’s House”
First Line: Because dark and far a lone voice.
Accepted by: Scarab Press.
|
January 1, 1981 |
C5.31 | “Some People”
First Line: It’s just by chance we met; so.
Accepted by: Webster Review.
|
December 1, 1977 |
C5.32 | “Speer at Spandau”
First Line: Someone is asking you the ultimate .
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
December 1, 1980 |
C5.33 | “Taking Part in an Eclipse”
First Line: Our shadow, Earth, traversed the moon.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
July 1, 1981 |
C5.34 | “Waking at Night in the
Country”
First Line: Somewhere in a pipe or bearing a little thud.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C5.35 | “Way It Is Out Here”
First Line: Big bowl of day, no one in charge, just.
Accepted by: Oregon East: 1950-1985.
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March 1, 1981 |
C5.36 | “Weather Beyond the Weather - How It Is at
Jack Howard’s Farm”
First Line: Something comes along - it is in.
Accepted by: calligraphed for Pres. John Howard.
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December 1, 1974 |
C5.37 | “Why I Look Far Away”
First Line: They print my picture reversed. Their twins.
Accepted by: Images.
|
October 1, 1979 |
C5.38 | “Willow Campaign”
First Line: The willows come back. Winter drives them away.
Accepted by: Willow Springs.
|
January 1, 1981 |
C5.39 | “Winding Way”
First Line: They use even blindness, become wanderers.
Accepted by: Ponchartrain Review.
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November 25, 1980 |
C6: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1982Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C6
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C6.1 | “Accepting a Call”
First Line: Other times when now came down along.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
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April 18, 1982 |
C6.2 | “Among the Weavers: Woven
Sentences”
First Line: The first loom I got for $25 in Laguna.
Accepted by: Cafe Solo.
|
August 1, 1982 |
C6.3 | “Apache Word for Love”
First Line: That word forgotten glows.
Accepted by: A Nation Within (NZ) .
|
May 1, 1976 |
C6.4 | “At a Little Grave in Canyon de
Chelly”
First Line: Morning light slides the canyon wall, claiming it.
Accepted by: A Nation Within (NZ) .
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May 1, 1981 |
C6.5 | “At the Clarks’ Mountain
Place”
First Line: Found by time, alone like this, we have come.
Accepted by: Lyricist.
|
November 15, 1981 |
C6.6 | “Beyond”
First Line: The world needs to be more than itself.
Accepted by: Nightsun.
|
February 24, 1982 |
C6.7 | “Camped in the Mountains”
First Line: A pulse that stilled in iron is ready.
Accepted by: Two Magpie Press.
|
May 12, 1982 |
C6.8 | “Cannon Beach Vacation”
First Line: Faces appear and peer out of different .
Accepted by: Tendril.
|
December 4, 1981 |
C6.9 | “Cheri”
First Line: Raymond was here dude. She.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
November 1, 1975 |
C6.10 | “Company”
First Line: Determined to kill snowflakes, the company sent out.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
October 1, 1982 |
C6.11 | “Conversion”
First Line: With a system called “Welcome” we hunted.
Accepted by: High Rock Review.
|
January 1, 1966 |
C6.12 | “Dancing”
First Line: Even the treetops, the very ends that float.
Accepted by: Literature & Belief.
|
December 4, 1981 |
C6.13 | “December ”
First Line: Now it is still in the woods, the way.
Accepted by: Atlanta.
|
October 15, 1981 |
C6.14 | “Dust”
First Line: When you think who it is.
Accepted by: Sigurd Olson anthology.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C6.15 | “From Up High”
First Line: No world leader has time for this field.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
October 1, 1982 |
C6.16 | “Hats by Our House”
First Line: A bluebird, a bat.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
undated |
C6.17 | “Hitting Your Head on the
Pavement”
First Line: Rock against bone, bone against cold.
Accepted by: High Rock Review.
|
December 1, 1979 |
C6.18 | “Important Things at Sun River - Read This
Twice”
First Line: Some people come for the flowers, to.
Accepted by: Sunstone.
|
June 1, 1981 |
C6.19 | “Inscriptions on Our Cave
Wall”
First Line: Years come back, sometimes.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
January 1, 1979 |
C6.20 | “Interrupting the Boss”
First Line: He leans away and I know I ve made.
Accepted by: Sunstone.
|
August 1, 1980 |
C6.21 | “In the Presence”
First Line: Winter lives here. Cold waits. It leans.
Accepted by: High Rock Review & High Country News.
|
September 1, 1981 |
C6.22 | “It Is”
First Line: It is kind of elephants to go away.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
May 12, 1982 |
C6.23 | “Last Night”
First Line: As the sun went down an arrow of light.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
September 17, 1982 |
C6.24 | “Learning”
First Line: The man with a cobra taps its basket.
Accepted by: Portland Review.
|
May 13, 1982 |
C6.25 | “Letter None of My Children Has Got Around
to Writing”
First Line: This letter is for my father’s friends.
Accepted by: Berkeley Monthly.
|
February 16, 1982 |
C6.26 | “Library”
First Line: It’s a room where you go to understand, where you chnage.
Accepted by: Sunstone.
|
February 23, 1982 |
C6.27 | “Morris County”
First Line: Gulls own it, flow in from the sea.
Accepted by: Prometheus.
|
March 1, 1982 |
C6.28 | “New Times, New People”
First Line: Soon, when the year dies, they will care for it.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
December 4, 1981 |
C6.29 | “Prairie School”
First Line: Their genius of not being bright, their.
Accepted by: Margarine Maypole Oranoutang Express.
|
May 12, 1982 |
C6.30 | “Not Saying Anything”
First Line: A big limb falls and the tree.
Accepted by: Indiana Review and Poets and Writers
memorial.
|
January 1, 1980 |
C6.31 | “Reality”
First Line: You can’t run, but you can pretend.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
July 14, 1982 |
C6.32 | “Report to My Mother”
First Line: Billy, what happened to you today?.
Accepted by: Snapdragon.
|
September 14, 1982 |
C6.33 | “Returning”
First Line: Those hills north of town, they move, you know.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
November 5, 1982 |
C6.34 | “St. Helens”
First Line: In our day some of us climbed a mountain peak.
Accepted by: Two Magpie Press.
|
June 24, 1982 |
C6.35 | “Signals Across the West - for Richard
Hugo”
First Line: A leaf taps the window at first light in the morning.
Accepted by: Devil’s Milhopper.
|
May 10, 1982 |
C6.36 | “Space”
First Line: It is an ocean, they say, without.
Accepted by: Sigurd Olsen anthology.
|
December 1, 1978 |
C6.37 | “Storm-Warning, at Naomi and Burnie
Clark’s Place in the Coast Range, 14 Nov 81”
First Line: A big oak branch c rashed near.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
November 15, 1981 |
C6.38 | “Three Times”
First Line: Three times by aleays we have met.
Accepted by: North Stone Review.
|
October 1, 1977 |
C6.39 | “Toward Now”
First Line: Back then someone said, “I will tell them a story.
Accepted by: Amicus Journal.
|
April 1, 1981 |
C6.40 | “Trusting Each Other”
First Line: Right at the height of the storm we crawled.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
December 4, 1981 |
C6.41 | “Watching an Eclipse in a Troubled
Time”
First Line: In the White House the hotline phone.
Accepted by: Voices for Peace.
|
July 1, 1982 |
C6.42 | “When We Write”
First Line: A feeling haunts us that all around is.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
April 18, 1982 |
C6.43 | “White Flowers”
First Line: Your feet when you walk at night catch.
Accepted by: Amicus Journal.
|
January 27, 1982 |
C6.44 | “Windy Day”
First Line: A sound goes by - maybe geese.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
October 1, 1977 |
C6.45 | “Years Ago off Juneau”
First Line: It looked all right on the map, where the channel jagged.
Accepted by: Poetry Northwest.
|
July 2, 1981 |
C7: Typescript Put-Together of Poems gathered for unpublished book, Roundup, June 30, 1981Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C7
Some items were removed in June of 1992 and were assembled into an updated put-together housed in Box 5, Folder dc5.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C7.1 | Letter from Bob Peters |
May 12, 1981 |
C7.2 | Reply to Bob Peters |
May 22, 1981 |
C7.3 | Letter to Harper & Row |
May 22, 1981 |
C7.4 | Card from Bob Peters |
June 28, 1981 |
C7.5 | Roundup 4 pp. (carbon)
Letter and Table of Contents.
|
June 30, 1981 |
C7.6 | “Our Light”
First Line: One year we put light in a jar.
Accepted by: Lotus.
|
January 1, 1971 |
C7.7 | “At the Conference on Cold”
First Line: At the conference on cold.
Accepted by: Nation.
|
January 1, 1977 |
C7.8 | “Fallen”
First Line: Over the mountain tonight sparrows will fall.
Accepted by: Western Review.
|
February 5, 1950 |
C7.9 | “All My Life”
First Line: While it falls no one hears it.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1970 |
C7.10 | “A.M. & P.M.”
First Line: When the sun came up, it stepped on.
Accepted by: Cleveland Plain Dealer.
|
April 1, 1971 |
C7.11 | “At Any Airport”
First Line: The plane sits above its big shadow.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
September 1, 1972 |
C7.12 | “Border Incident”
First Line: Bandits from the north, disguised as.
Accepted by: Copperhead.
|
January 1, 1974 |
C7.13 | “Bridge for Eden”
First Line: Often in quick ignorance I have put out a hand.
Accepted by: Contact.
|
March 15, 1958 |
C7.14 | “[Big] Word in the Snow”
First Line: On snow that winter fastened across our state.
Accepted by: Ladies Home Journal.
|
January 1, 1959 |
C7.15 | “After the Beach Riots”
First Line: Skin divers play guiters under the water.
Accepted by: Portland.
|
July 1, 1964 |
C7.16 | “Sage”
First Line: Every bush clenches a little self, tuned.
Accepted by: Sage.
|
December 1, 1965 |
C7.17 | “Before Dutch Elm”
First Line: Street” meant aisles and columns.
Accepted by: Chicago Tribune and Madrona.
|
January 1, 1972 |
C7.18 | “Beyond the John Haines Place”
First Line: A traveler we met in that cold.
Accepted by: Open Places.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C7.19 | “In Oregon”
First Line: Old barns let in the rain that always.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
August 1, 1974 |
C7.20 | “Inside Lincoln’s Head in the Black
Hills”
First Line: Afraid the weight of time, that wristwatch.
Accepted by: Open Places.
|
August 1, 1976 |
C7.21 | “Owl Calendar”
First Line: When When goes and Now comes.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C7.22 | “Among Strangers”
First Line: Life, the first time.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
September 1, 1967 |
C8: Typescripts of Poems published in Journals, 1983Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C8
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C8.1 | “After a Cold Goodby”
First Line: Something you should have done, or not done.
Accepted by: Clockwatch Review.
|
July 1, 1983 |
C8.2 | “Balloons at a Window”
First Line: Balloons in a cluster mumble their monstrous regard.
Accepted by: Hapa (Hawaii).
|
January 11, 1983 |
C8.3 | “Briefing for Visitors to Our
Planet”
First Line: Whenever you meet someone, find.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
December 1, 1979 |
C8.4 | “Color of an Old Friend’s
Eyes”
First Line: If he had lived, you know, many a.
Accepted by: Cutbank.
|
June 28, 1982 |
C8.5 | “Coronado Heights”
First Line: When we touch the rock, a little cold shiver.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
September 1, 1982 |
C8.6 | “Cutting Loose - for James
Dickey”
First Line: Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason.
Accepted by: Palaemon Press broadside.
|
August 1, 1982 |
C8.7 | “Dedication, Corvallis Center 17 June
1983”
First Line: Silent as the world will be, time waits.
|
April 30, 1983 |
C8.8 | “Sky Kiva”
First Line: Two notes - quail people in the palo verdes.
|
February 10, 1983 |
C8.9 | “Campaign”
First Line: Any land vacant, any open field, any.
|
March 30, 1983 |
C8.10 | “Facing Dawn at Oklahoma
State”
First Line: In the early light I jog out through Stillwater.
Accepted by: Cimarron Review.
|
September 1, 1983 |
C8.11 | “Giving Credit”
First Line: One night, fire came to the mill alone.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
June 10, 1982 |
C8.12 | “Hills in Eastern Ohio”
First Line: These hills only wait. All they know is.
Accepted by: Muskingum College Magazine.
|
September 1, 1983 |
C8.13 | “How It Seems”
First Line: My life is a story written on scraps of paper.
Accepted by: Pax.
|
December 1, 1982 |
C8.14 | “Inquiries”
First Line: One afternoon like the others.
Accepted by: Spider anthology.
|
January 1, 1979 |
C8.15 | “In the Sand”
First Line: Deserts hold ghost rivers.
Accepted by: High Country News.
|
December 1, 1965 |
C8.16 | “Lights and Las Vegas”
First Line: Buildings pose their prayer shadows.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
May 1, 1983 |
C8.17 | “Old Ways, New Ways”
First Line: Some things it is odd to say, though.
Accepted by: Little Balkans Review.
|
June 1, 1983 |
C8.18 | “One Morning”
First Line: One morning when people looked out their windows.
Accepted by: Poetry Miscellany.
|
November 28, 1983 |
C8.19 | “Only You, Only Me”
First Line: In space an orphan, you began - wide.
|
January 1, 1983 |
C8.20 | “On the Falklands”
First Line: Now it’s the always wind.
Accepted by: Raddle Moon.
|
July 1, 1982 |
C8.21 | “Passing a Place in the Sky”
First Line: Someone came out of a house and stood.
Accepted by: Pax.
|
February 24, 1982 |
C8.22 | “Salmon Street”
First Line: Serving far here in the world.
Accepted by: Orloff ceremony.
|
September 1, 1983 |
C8.23 | “Some Day”
First Line: It is only the world, and only your time in it; it is
only.
Accepted by: Field.
|
January 5, 1983 |
C8.24 | “Trying Again: for Hugo”
First Line: This time through let’s begin where evening.
Accepted by: Hugo memorial anthology.
|
December 1, 1982 |
C8.25 | “Watching the Toast”
First Line: When the toast gets darker and the burner turns off.
Accepted by: Recipe book.
|
November 26, 1983 |
C8.26 | “What Uncle Steve Said”
First Line: It’s not something I especially like, you know.
Accepted by: The Paper (Honolulu).
|
May 12, 1982 |
C8.27 | “Where Do Dreams Go?”
First Line: They fade in sunlight. Thay cry.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
November 22, 1979 |
C9: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication, 1984Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C9
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C9.1 | “Any Time”
First Line: A bush climbs out of the earth and waits.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
October 1, 1984 |
C9.2 | “At a Garden Party”
First Line: Clown faces at the door.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 1, 1983 |
C9.3 | “At Bryant’s Grave”
First Line: A poet with a voice that is lost.
Accepted by: Under Open Sky: Poets on William Cullen
Bryant.
|
April 20, 1984 |
C9.4a-C9.4d | “At Memorial Park”
First Line: A butterfly, pretending to be chance.
Accepted by: Crosscurrents.
|
August 13, 1983 |
C9.5 | “Breathing in Baton Rouge”
First Line: A soft sound, a soft sound, on the road.
Accepted by: New Delta Review.
|
February 1, 1984 |
C9.6 | “By the Freeway”
First Line: I shift into “park.” Idle, idle. The fenders.
Accepted by: Margarine Maypole Orangutan Express.
|
December 1, 1982 |
C9.7 | “By the Memorial Gate" (poem with Yorifumi
Yaguchi)
First Line: Sitting, I’m waiting for the trees to speak.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1984 |
C9.8 | “Calling Deep Springs”
First Line: A skunk, or some good plant that knows.
Accepted by: Crop Dust.
|
October 4, 1982 |
C9.9 | “Children Still Play”
First Line: Children still play, but their elders who know, are
afraid.
Accepted by: Agni Review.
|
May 2, 1984 |
C9.10 | “Developer”
First Line: In the faint red light of the darkroom a face.
Accepted by: California Sate mag.
|
June 1, 1984 |
C9.11 | “Falling Apart”
First Line: Our statue to chastity, a girl with a white.
Accepted by: Brown Journal of Arts.
|
January 1, 1984 |
C9.12 | “For the Governor’s Inaugural”
First Line: We have a way - a kind - of life. We want.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
December 15, 1982 |
C9.13 | “For You Reading This”
First Line: Many pages in.
Accepted by: Gryphon.
|
August 1, 1983 |
C9.14 | “Geography Lesson”
First Line: When the land quit moving, some of it.
Accepted by: Texas Review.
|
February 13, 1984 |
C9.15 | “Gone Like Mazama”
First Line: In Oregon one of the mountains isn’t.
Accepted by: Eugene Magazine.
|
June 1, 1984 |
C9.16 | “Hearing Voices”
First Line: Once when I ran it was moonlight so bright that even.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
January 1, 1983 |
C9.17 | “High School”
First Line: Some day in my empty town Virginia’s house.
Accepted by: Carolina Quarterly.
|
January 21, 1984 |
C9.18 | “On Their Blindness”
First Line: When I consider how Milton is spent on ears.
Accepted by: Open Places.
|
June 1, 1977 |
C9.19 | “Out Through a Church Window”
First Line: Sundays means different: flowers tell churchgoers.
Accepted by: Cottonwood.
|
July 1, 1983 |
C9.20 | “Red Oaks”
First Line: They hold leaves to the last.
Accepted by: Scarab.
|
May 12, 1982 |
C9.21 | “Same Old Character”
First Line: Howdy, I’m the rain.
Accepted by: Crop Dust .
|
May 21, 1980 |
C9.22 | “Seaview”
First Line: This morning rain at the window tapped lightly then.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
May 2, 1984 |
C9.23 | “That Lake in the Mountains”
First Line: Never quite quiet, it accepted what came.
Accepted by: Amicus Journal.
|
September 2, 1981 |
C9.24 | “Tides”
First Line: The first wave of a new tide hardly.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
October 1, 1984 |
C9.25 | “Today”
First Line: The cat by the road is one I used.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 5, 1980 |
C9.26 | “Two Times”
First Line: Years later, neglected, you are forgotten.
Accepted by: Pacific Review.
|
October 1, 1982 |
C9.27 | “What Does a Poet Do?”
First Line: By force of words I lean against.
Accepted by: Abatis.
|
April 15, 1981 |
C9.28 | “You and Art”
First Line: Your exact errors make a music.
Accepted by: Metropolitan Arts Commission.
|
April 22, 1984 |
C10: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication, 1985Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C10
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C10.1 | “AIR etc. For My Parents”
First Line: AIRAIRAIRAIRetc.
Accepted by: Milkweed Chronicle.
|
July 19, 1984 |
C10.2 | “Air”
First Line: Air that my mother found with her hands.
Accepted by: Country Poet.
|
December 30, 1984 |
C10.3 | “Child of Our Century”
First Line: At thirteen my disguise became permanent, except.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1985 |
C10.4 | “Crowded Falls”
First Line: Our school had art and Miss Frazier, who also.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 6, 1984 |
C10.5 | “Death Watch”
First Line: Outside a dark house near midnight.
Accepted by: New Delta Review.
|
December 6, 1984 |
C10.6 | “Different Light”
First Line: Rembrandt saved old light like this.
Accepted by: Bard Halley’s Comet exhibit 11/8/85.
|
September 1, 1985 |
C10.7 | “Failing to Please”
First Line: It might not work, even with everything.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
August 1, 1983 |
C10.8 | “Footnote”
First Line: When Sacajawea’s child grew up and sidestepped.
Accepted by: Portland.
|
May 27, 1985 |
C10.9 | “Fort Yukon [Librarian at Fort
Yukon]”
First Line: There isn’t any more,” the map in the library.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
March 3, 1983 |
C10.10 | “Friends”
First Line: Of its own accord, Light never stops.
Accepted by: West Hills Review.
|
June 1, 1984 |
C10.11 | “Kolob Canyon”
First Line: The storm is coming because.
Accepted by: Deseret News.
|
May 1, 1985 |
C10.12 | “My Plan”
First Line: Sunlight will follow my shoes measuring land.
Accepted by: Midland Review.
|
October 11, 1984 |
C10.13 | “Not Accepting a Call”
First Line: Sometimes if I knew what the phone would say, I’d not.
Accepted by: West Hills Review.
|
September 1, 1982 |
C10.14 | “Now”
First Line: Mist and wind erase our breath. Oceans.
Accepted by: Quarry West.
|
July 1, 1985 |
C10.15 | “Our People”
First Line: Our people live on the banks of a river.
Accepted by: Phoenix.
|
September 1, 1985 |
C10.16 | “Outside Wichita”
First Line: Working on its map, the river evaded big hills.
Accepted by: Field.
|
March 9, 1985 |
C10.17 | “Quiet Ones”
First Line: Look - in the pyrocanthus - robin, waxwing.
Accepted by: Chris Howell anthology 9/86.
|
December 16, 1985 |
C10.18 | “Restrospective: John Frederick Kensett:
1816-1872”
First Line: It stays, that century. It peels from the ground.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
April 12, 1985 |
C10.19 | “Saying Goodby”
First Line: Is there a good way to do it?.
Accepted by: OSCA Frohnmayer retirement 12/3/85.
|
December 3, 1985 |
C10.20 | “Saying “Light,” Saying
“Corazon””
First Line: I walk out where the old words crawl in the desert.
Accepted by: Memphis State Review.
|
November 1, 1984 |
C10.21 | “State of the Union”
First Line: While we all were brave, listening to the President.
Accepted by: Axe Factory Review.
|
February 7, 1985 |
C10.22 | “Still Water”
First Line: Do lakes ever hear of each other? They stare.
Accepted by: Innisfree.
|
December 1, 1979 |
C10.23 | “That Other River”
First Line: Above Klamath we talked a campfire.
Accepted by: Sawmill.
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December 30, 1984 |
C10.24 | “This Observatory”
First Line: Our years are to glance out of. It may seem.
Accepted by: Bard Halley’s Comet exhibit.
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September 28, 1985 |
C10.25 | “Those Others”
First Line: The wind is why we are lonely.
Accepted by: Oregonian.
|
May 1, 1985 |
C10.26 | “Two People”
First Line: What bread we had we shared.
Accepted by: Painted Bride Quarterly.
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March 9, 1985 |
C11: Typescripts of Poems for Chapbooks, September 1985Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C11
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C11.1 | “Sound”
First Line: In the old house it was not the phone ringing.
Accepted by: Southwest Review.
|
October 1, 1968 |
C11.2 | “Snubbing Poets”
First Line: Our town felt the dust.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
January 1, 1973 |
C11.3 | “Possum Crossing: Next 3,000
Miles”
First Line: Some of the eyes watch us. They become.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C11.4 | “Finding Sky Ranch”
First Line: There beyond Hay Creek turn at.
Accepted by: Northwest Review & Contemporary Northwest
Writing.
|
August 1, 1974 |
C11.5 | “Halley’s Comet”
First Line: That old comet - Halley’s? - broke.
Accepted by: Poet Lore.
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January 1, 1971 |
C11.6 | “What’s Happening Where We
Live”
First Line: Where is Truth?” I ask the rain.
Accepted by: Rain.
|
April 1, 1976 |
C11.7 | “Web in the Woods”
First Line: Sudden into deep air.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C11.8 | “Walking Away an Undeclared
War”
First Line: Once where we lived, every place in the sky.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
April 1, 1972 |
C11.9 | “Way of a Word [Walkers of
Silence]”
First Line: An owl carries a sound like a lantern.
Accepted by: Malahat Review.
|
December 26, 1973 |
C11.10 | “Waking in Space”
First Line: You come out of the gray of sleep into.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
September 1, 1973 |
C11.11 | “Two Kinds of Death”
First Line: That man on a camel south of Karachi tapped.
Accepted by: Poets On.
|
August 1, 1975 |
C11.12 | “Trying to Become a Confessional
Poet”
First Line: Out from shore they stretch nets for the.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
March 1, 1974 |
C11.13 | “Starting with Audubon”
First Line: Reversible as his raincoat which declined.
Accepted by: Sketchbook.
|
August 1, 1963 |
C11.14 | “So Long”
First Line: No one can save you now, so deep.
Accepted by: Roanoke Review.
|
January 1, 1966 |
C11.15 | “Rural Company”
First Line: That mud stops the horses. Pulling.
Accepted by: Ironwood.
|
October 1, 1976 |
C11.16 | “Robins in Winter”
First Line: They’re an oldfashioned bird. Some days.
Accepted by: Sandlapper.
|
December 1, 1966 |
C11.17 | “Quaker at Harper’s Ferry”
First Line: No song now - the stilled corridor.
Accepted by: Contempora.
|
June 1, 1971 |
C11.18 | “On the Santa Cruz Campus”
First Line: When the next redwoods come .
Accepted by: Reporting to Crazy Horse.
|
August 1, 1971 |
C11.19 | “Kinds of Winter”
First Line: It was a big one. We followed it over.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
June 1, 1974 |
C11.20 | “Just Visiting”
First Line: My words are cold. When you let them.
Accepted by: Thistle.
|
November 2, 1976 |
C11.21 | “Humble Petition”
First Line: You pessimists.
Accepted by: Rapport.
|
July 1, 1975 |
C11.22 | “How to Sit in a Chair at the Library
[Episode]”
First Line: There was a man who made a chair.
Accepted by: PTA Magazine.
|
July 1, 1973 |
C11.23 | “Have You Heard?”
First Line: They say if you kneel and bow, a spirit comes.
Accepted by: Cheers (Soft Press).
|
January 1, 1975 |
C11.24 | “Hall of the Mountain King”
First Line: Before the real days came but after.
Accepted by: New Review.
|
July 1, 1975 |
C11.25 | “Guitar by the Chair”
First Line: Even a chair can give, not always.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
May 1, 1967 |
C11.26 | “[Epitaph:] Guard Dog”
First Line: I had good training.
Accepted by: Gryphon.
|
December 1, 1966 |
C11.27 | “Growing Up: Mother”
First Line: We so honored her face we called it.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
October 1, 1962 |
C11.28 | “Forever After”
First Line: You are being watched. This is a recording.
Accepted by: Florida Review.
|
December 1, 1971 |
C11.29 | “Eskimo Sled”
First Line: In the back - steady dogs.
Accepted by: Carnegie-Mellon Poetry on Buses.
|
September 1, 1968 |
C11.30 | “Episodes”
First Line: A sound like nothing wakes me - snow.
Accepted by: North Stone Review.
|
July 1, 1973 |
C11.31 | “Empirics”
First Line: You gropers, present company, recall.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
|
May 30, 1961 |
C11.32 | “Declaration for the New World:
1976”
First Line: We wake together inside a pearl at dawn.
Accepted by: World Order.
|
April 24, 1975 |
C11.33 | “December”
First Line: Where no one waited a bus came by.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
December 2, 1962 |
C11.34 | “Current Mission”
First Line: Coming in over cities or Asia, turning.
Accepted by: Madrona.
|
May 1, 1973 |
C11.35 | “Crowd Identifies Itself to Its
Leader”
First Line: Great man, it was hard to find you; your.
Accepted by: Soft Press.
|
December 1, 1964 |
C11.36 | “Crossing the Campus”
First Line: Turning things upside down, starting.
Accepted by: Waters.
|
November 1, 1974 |
C11.37 | “Post Hoc Ergo: A Credential”
First Line: Few folk around here have.
Accepted by: Lewis & Clark Magazine.
|
December 4, 1947 |
C11.38 | “Converts”
First Line: If we could find how to obey.
Accepted by: Dragonfly.
|
July 1, 1968 |
C11.39 | “Coming In from the Airport at
Cairo”
First Line: No Nile, no Egypt,” said the taxi-man.
Accepted by: Satire Newsletter.
|
September 1, 1972 |
C11.40 | “Collector”
First Line: A roadrunner - fast, a lizard and a half.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
May 1, 1962 |
C11.41 | “Coat of Arms”
First Line: Fishhooks are the sign for quiet trouble.
Accepted by: Critical Quarterly.
|
August 1, 1963 |
C11.42 | “Cloves”
First Line: Whatever my enemies find, I have to face.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
October 1, 1969 |
C11.43 | “Chronicler and Historian”
First Line: What came I took; it does not.
Accepted by: Tri-Quarterly.
|
January 1, 1964 |
C11.44 | “Choosing a Time”
First Line: Some time we will give away our house.
Accepted by: Orange Bear Reader.
|
May 1, 1968 |
C11.45 | “Choosing a Day to Remember”
First Line: We went out slowly and stood in a field.
Accepted by: Red Cedar Review.
|
November 2, 1976 |
C11.46 | “Chevy on the Corner”
First Line: In my third gear I rattle.
Accepted by: Uzzano.
|
January 1, 1976 |
C11.47 | “Certified from the New
Satellite”
First Line: Into our life extends an ear.
Accepted by: Noise.
|
February 1, 1972 |
C11.48 | “Cement, Rock”
First Line: Sand plus water and a certain soft powder.
Accepted by: Tennessee Poetry Journal.
|
March 1, 1971 |
C11.49 | “Catching a Leaf”
First Line: Once upon a time - they called it “Now”.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
December 1, 1974 |
C11.50 | “Careful Explorer”
First Line: At noon through my thin sole I feel.
Accepted by: The Garret.
|
April 1, 1968 |
C11.51 | “Another Day Trying to Do
Right”
First Line: Ducks plane home. A wind catches.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
March 1, 1976 |
C11.52 | “America”
First Line: Undiscovered, its long miles.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
December 1, 1974 |
C11.53 | “Almost”
First Line: Some flowers [forsythia] found last week.
Accepted by: Poetry Now.
|
April 1, 1974 |
C11.54 | “Aldo’s Last Words”
First Line: When the sentries came over to talk about.
Accepted by: Iowa Review.
|
March 1, 1970 |
C11.55 | “After Space Travel: A Report to the
Academy”
First Line: When we finally got back our world had become.
Accepted by: Cornell Review.
|
September 1, 1975 |
C12: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1986Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C12
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C12.1 | “Artist in Residence: Banff”
First Line: In the old boat hauled up from the lake.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
September 1, 1986 |
C12.2 | “At a Shrine in Kamakura”
First Line: A boy made of cement and carrying a book.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
September 1, 1984 |
C12.3 | “Back Home Under the Wind”
First Line: A house in a field, no shelter.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
|
July 1, 1986 |
C12.4 | “Banquet”
First Line: The room you are in was designed to make you forget.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
November 11, 1985 |
C12.5 | “Before Bill Cunningham Left”
First Line: The joists were up, the studs braced, and long.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
November 20, 1985 |
C12.6 | “Buddha’s Thoughts”
First Line: In a mountain that is one big stone.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
March 9, 1985 |
C12.7 | “Cayuga Geese”
First Line: The air divides. A flock tilts.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
October 17, 1985 |
C12.8 | “City Hall”
First Line: Walking our streets, morning or evening.
Accepted by: Plaque at Lake Oswego City Hall, 6/27/87.
|
July 1, 1986 |
C12.9 | “Cold Month”
First Line: The bit end of my sharp ax.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
|
November 1, 1986 |
C12.10 | “Creation”
First Line: In late gray light from evening.
Accepted by: Chattahoochie Review.
|
November 1, 1985 |
C12.11 | “Daylight Express”
First Line: When stations go by, all you can do is.
Accepted by: Chattahoochie Review.
|
January 1, 1986 |
C12.12 | “Drowsing in the Library”
First Line: When books lean against each other and fall.
Accepted by: Portland.
|
April 7, 1986 |
C12.13 | “Early Morning at Howard’s
House”
First Line: The rug is tan. A fern or bamboo.
Accepted by: Caliban.
|
April 8, 1986 |
C12.14 | “For Alexis Christa von Hartmann: Proved
Not Guilty ”
First Line: It takes awhile, recovering. You confess.
Accepted by: Three Rivers & Carnegie Mellon &
Explicator.
|
November 19, 1985 |
C12.15 | “Getting Out”
First Line: It doesn’t have to be gold - silver.
Accepted by: Zone.
|
January 1, 1984 |
C12.16 | “Holmesville”
First Line: This time the elms will be higher.
Accepted by: Stone Drum.
|
December 4, 1985 |
C12.17 | “Hurricane”
First Line: You can die out there, or live.
Accepted by: Florida Review.
|
November 22, 1985 |
C12.18 | “Identifications”
First Line: I am the visitor who said.
Accepted by: Xanadu.
|
May 1, 1986 |
C12.19 | “In This Kind of World”
First Line: In these latter days of the twentieth century.
Accepted by: Bishop Gumbleton visit to Portland.
|
February 1, 1986 |
C12.20 | “Josephine Miles”
First Line: Virginia Street aimed at the hills.
Accepted by: Berkeley Poetry Review.
|
August 1, 1985 |
C12.21 | “Making Bread”
First Line: Yeast will mother it, or sourdough muttering.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
December 1, 1985 |
C12.22 | “Morning Train”
First Line: A yearning cry brandished from the north.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
November 14, 1985 |
C12.23 | “My Father Saw Halley’s Comet”
First Line: It helps when birds come, after a stormcloud.
Accepted by: Mickle Street Review.
|
November 14, 1985 |
C12.24 | “Ocean”
First Line: She is inventing again - how to approach.
Accepted by: South Coast Poetry.
|
March 26, 1985 |
C12.25 | “Old Clunker”
First Line: Even when it was time for a checkup, you like it.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
September 1, 1985 |
C12.26 | “Pelican Flight”
First Line: I hold out my awkward wings and the air.
Accepted by: Florida Review.
|
November 18, 1985 |
C12.27 | “Saint Emanuel”
First Line: A neat visitor will come when it is time.
Accepted by: Hubbub.
|
March 1, 1986 |
C12.28 | “Starting the Day”
First Line: Steep the tea, rinse the bowl, pour.
Accepted by: Maryland Poetry.
|
January 1, 1986 |
C12.29 | “They Suffer for Us”
First Line: In war so many come .
Accepted by: Xanadu.
|
April 21, 1986 |
C12.30 | “Trying to Explain”
First Line: Manacled on in the cold morning, my watch.
Accepted by: A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz On His Eightieth
Birthday.
|
April 5, 1984 |
C12.31 | “Visitors”
First Line: For awhile dunes catch the sun, grass-covered.
Accepted by: Amicus Journal.
|
March 31, 1986 |
C12.32 | “Waving Goodby”
First Line: Tell that about the throat. Explain what spring.
Accepted by: Windfall.
|
December 10, 1982 |
C12.33 | “What I Didn’t Tell Berryman”
First Line: This note is a toy airplane to fly.
Accepted by: New York Quarterly.
|
November 6, 1985 |
C13: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1987Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C13
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C13.1 | “After a Good Class”
First Line: You may carry this day folded all your life.
Accepted by: Outlet.
|
March 5, 1987 |
C13.2 | “Amounting to Something”
First Line: At this moment the earth is wanting you. It reaches.
Accepted by: Chaminade Literary Review.
|
March 15, 1987 |
C13.3 | “Ashbery”
First Line: Where some people live the wires run.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
December 1, 1986 |
C13.4 | “At Kirkwood”
First Line: We learned the art of giant faces, text.
Accepted by: University of California newsletter 1987.
|
August 1, 1987 |
C13.5 | “Being Ready”
First Line: When it comes, it may be small, a quirk.
Accepted by: Wooster Review.
|
January 1, 1984 |
C13.6 | “Cannon Beach”
First Line: Years from now you may remember that beach.
Accepted by: Quarry West.
|
September 1, 1985 |
C13.7 | “Critique”
First Line: Like a ghost of the writer I read this page.
Accepted by: College Composition and Communication.
|
December 1, 1986 |
C13.8 | “Getting Along with Angels”
First Line: Living with angels is easy except.
Accepted by: 5 A.M. .
|
August 1, 1978 |
C13.9 | “Getting Out of Town”
First Line: It was decided that morning when a hawk.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
December 1, 1986 |
C13.10 | “Hearing the Wind”
First Line: What the pines are saying - it isn’t.
Accepted by: Crab Creek Review.
|
July 1, 1985 |
C13.11 | “Presenting These Pieces”
First Line: Just before waking - that single strong cry.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
January 1, 1986 |
C13.12 | “Rainy Day”
First Line: Our boots will squelch.
Accepted by: Archer.
|
January 1, 1986 |
C13.13 | “Remembering Richard Hugo”
First Line: There are places on the earth, names.
Accepted by: Arnazello.
|
November 10, 1986 |
C13.14 | “After Reading Robinson
Jeffers”
First Line: I can’t touch anyone.
Accepted by: Robert Zaller.
|
July 11, 1987 |
C13.15 | “Seduction River”
First Line: THere was a girl whose body was found by a river.
Accepted by: Field.
|
December 1, 1986 |
C13.16 | “Shadow on My Hand”
First Line: Close, breath of a rattlesnake.
Accepted by: Poetry.
|
December 1, 1986 |
C13.17 | “Summer on the Prairie”
First Line: It is so very clear. Evening.
Accepted by: Prairie Winds.
|
August 1, 1986 |
C13.18 | “Sweet Peas”
First Line: In February they hide in the earth cold.
Accepted by: Archer.
|
March 9, 1985 |
C13.19 | “Taking Part in a Publication”
First Line: What we find when we write is often a surprise.
Accepted by: El Ojito.
|
|
C13.20 | “Tamarisk”
First Line: In autumn or spring when you need to escape.
Accepted by: Panoply.
|
April 21, 1986 |
C13.21 | “Three Artists on Location”
First Line: A glass door opens in the far gray house.
Accepted by: Laurel Review.
|
November 7, 1985 |
C13.22 | “Transcending Earth”
First Line: Clouds here have dawn before we do.
Accepted by: Tampa Review.
|
August 12, 1986 |
C13.23 | “Where We Lived [Out by
Liberal]”
First Line: West of town a great tired lake lay.
Accepted by: El Ojito.
|
March 1, 1986 |
C13.24 | “Who Is Richest Along Our
Street?”
First Line: I think the woman who walks her little dog.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
September 1, 1986 |
C13.25 | “Yor Gift, Your Words, Your
Rose”
First Line: For any of us it may come, the random luck.
Accepted by: Occident.
|
October 9, 1985 |
C14: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1988Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C14
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C14.1 | “Anchor Message #1”
First Line: No, this anchor never held. Its great.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
July 14, 1987 |
C14.2 | “Anchor Message #2”
First Line: Stop here.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
July 15, 1987 |
C14.3 | “Anticipation”
First Line: Even on a still day, trees on our north coast.
Accepted by: Chaminade Literary Review.
|
April 27, 1988 |
C14.4 | “Archival Print”
First Line: God snaps your picture - don’t look away.
Accepted by: Field.
|
|
C14.5 | “At Borego”
First Line: Walking all day rich in that solitude.
Accepted by: Pacific Review.
|
April 6, 1988 |
C14.6 | “Classroom and Bulletin Board”
First Line: One wall said, “It’s beyond me the wind.
Accepted by: DLE: Remembrances of Donald L Emblen.
|
July 17, 1987 |
C14.7 | “Companion”
First Line: All my life this quick instant of knowing.
Accepted by: Expressions.
|
April 27, 1988 |
C14.8 | “Conducting a Meeting”
First Line: While the speaker speaks, line up.
Accepted by: Footwork.
|
May 2, 1988 |
C14.9 | “Entering a Wilderness Area”
First Line: Let air discover who you are, deliver.
Accepted by: Wilderness.
|
May 3, 1988 |
C14.10 | “For My Vita”
First Line: My life has the country in it; hills.
Accepted by: Cutbank.
|
September 27, 1988 |
C14.11 | “Harvest in the Furrows”
First Line: The autumn lift that birds and animals.
Accepted by: Footwork.
|
August 1, 1987 |
C14.12 | “How It Is These Days”
First Line: Storms we like best of all, tress braced and shrill.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
March 1, 1988 |
C14.13 | “Interviewing a Celebrity”
First Line: It’s heavy, fame is. A Heavy shadow.
Accepted by: Worcester Review.
|
September 1, 1986 |
C14.14 | “Miss Pinkerton”
First Line: We’ll do some thinking.” The room went.
Accepted by: Practices of the Wind.
|
November 1, 1983 |
C14.15 | “Note from a Friend of the
World”
First Line: Often at home I crawl to find how the furniture.
Accepted by: Rio Grande Review.
|
September 27, 1988 |
C14.16 | “Old Way”
First Line: It is that other time. Only the cedars.
Accepted by: Caliban.
|
July 1, 1988 |
C14.17 | “Old Writers’ Welcome to the
New”
First Line: Somewhere out there new light.
Accepted by: Cream City Review.
|
December 1, 1987 |
C14.18 | “Runaway Teen”
First Line: Any cold night I am hiding. Some people.
Accepted by: Paul Janczko anthology.
|
December 6, 1984 |
C14.19 | “Starting Again”
First Line: Now we’ve done the beginning. Now the steady part.
Accepted by: State of Oregon celebration.
|
September 1, 1988 |
C14.20 | “Talking at Evening”
First Line: Talking at evening while hundreds of moths.
Accepted by: Worcester Review.
|
September 1, 1985 |
C14.21 | “Tracker Dog 1”
First Line: Bringing its talent for recognition, the bloodhound.
Accepted by: Abraxas.
|
March 1, 1988 |
C14.22 | “Tracker Dog 2”
First Line: One thing in the world at a time.
Accepted by: .
|
December 1, 1987 |
C14.23 | “Two of a KInd”
First Line: Found on the same hill, one strange leaf.
Accepted by: Seattle Review.
|
July 1, 1988 |
C14.24 | “Undertow”
First Line: All of us live in the sky; and in our.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
December 1, 1987 |
C14.25 | “Utah, for Instance”
First Line: A horizon, and a farmhouse, foreground.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
May 1, 1986 |
C14.26 | “World Below Our House”
First Line: Our cellar steps descended, each one.
Accepted by: Sycamore Review.
|
January 1, 1987 |
C15: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1989Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C15
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C15.1 | “Adventure (Pieces of Summer
1)”
First Line: Sometimes when the train hoots through at night.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.1 | “Attempts at Meaning (Pieces of Summer
2)”
First Line: When this day landed a dawn it looked around .
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.2 | “Garbage Truck (Pieces of Summer
3)”
First Line: Some engine starts up in the neighborhood. It keeps.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.2 | “Survey of the Neighborhood (Pieces of
Summer 4)”
First Line: Toward my parents I was an indulgent child.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.3 | “Kids (Pieces of Summer 5)”
First Line: They bring me what they have found.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.4 | “Life of the Hired Man (Pieces of Summer
6)”
First Line: Joseph said he nailed those pieces of sunlight.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.5 | “Accepting Hurt”
First Line: When some great embracing tree jogs.
Accepted by: Northwoods Press.
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December 21, 1988 |
C15.6 | “Anxiety of Influence”
First Line: As we stank along down the trail at the end.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C15.7 | “At Malheur Game Refuge”
First Line: Coyote Butte rinsed by earthlight begins.
Accepted by: Amicus.
|
May 20, 1988 |
C15.8 | “At the Sun Coast”
First Line: Where they advertize the stars, from great places.
Accepted by: Sun Coast Writer's Conference newsletter &
University of Tampa Magazine.
|
January 1, 1989 |
C15.9 | “Birdsongs for the Red Phone”
First Line: In that instant when forever clings right here.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
May 23, 1989 |
C15.10 | “Cardinal”
First Line: Early in spring I fly north.
Accepted by: Windfall.
|
June 1, 1989 |
C15.11 | “Day that Is Already Tomorrow”
First Line: This feeling of who I am will go away.
Accepted by: Fine Madness.
|
April 1, 1989 |
C15.12 | “Doing My Part”
First Line: I get along well with my shadow, but.
Accepted by: Footwork.
|
December 22, 1988 |
C15.13 | “Gulls at Cannon Beach”
First Line: You’d think they’d discovered injustice and achieved.
Accepted by: Amicus.
|
October 1, 1988 |
C15.14 | “Knowing Where You Are”
First Line: One time a clock said midnight.
Accepted by: Nightsun.
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January 1, 1987 |
C15.15 | “Looking at a Mural”
First Line: Time comes tapping along and stops.
Accepted by: Oregon Historical Society Mural.
|
November 9, 1989 |
C15.16 | “Memorial: Son Bret”
First Line: In the way you went you were important.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
December 8, 1988 |
C15.17 | “Our Sky”
First Line: We call it our sky: it extends from the old.
Accepted by: Chiron Review.
|
December 1, 1987 |
C15.18 | “Promise”
First Line: In our country now, day brims with a silence.
Accepted by: Bret ceremony at Mt Adams.
|
August 1, 1989 |
C15.19 | “Sad Clock”
First Line: A clock in a house didn’t like.
Accepted by: Silver State Calliope.
|
June 4, 1985 |
C15.20 | “Saying a Friend’s Name”
First Line: In the rich dawnlight the syllables come.
Accepted by: Kentucky Poetry.
|
November 26, 1987 |
C15.21 | “Standing in the Library”
First Line: What we don’t know, we know.
Accepted by: Nightsun.
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February 1, 1986 |
C15.22 | “These Days Now”
First Line: Somewhere here - doves and cardinals.
Accepted by: Taming the Echo.
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April 1, 1989 |
C15.23 | “Walking the Beach Under the
Overcast”
First Line: It seems like someone’s mind when they forget.
Accepted by: Sequoia.
|
January 28, 1989 |
C15.24 | “What Happens to Everybody”
First Line: First, through the trees a sky lightens. They call.
Accepted by: Phoenix Review.
|
January 3, 1989 |
C15.25 | “What It’s Important to Say”
First Line: Along about now, or often, there comes to me.
Accepted by: Writers in Books.
|
December 21, 1988 |
C15.26 | “With Apologies All Around”
First Line: Now it seems I am not sad enough. Some.
Accepted by: Interim.
|
July 1, 1989 |
C16: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1990Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C16
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C16.1 | “Almost Forgetting”
First Line: Today a sound - a queer silver.
Accepted by: Blackfish Gallery 1990.
|
April 5, 1990 |
C16.2 | “At Port Townsend in July”
First Line: When the sea suffers a wave all the way down.
Accepted by: Whole Notes.
|
July 14, 1990 |
C16.3 | “At the Grave of My Brother: Bomber
Pilot”
First Line: Tantalized by wind, this flag that flies.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
July 20, 1990 |
C16.4 | “Being Worthy at a Writers’
Conference”
First Line: In my dorm room, with its crippled.
Accepted by: South Florida Poetry Review.
|
July 17, 1990 |
C16.5 | “Communion”
First Line: Inside Moorty’s cupboard a picture of God.
Accepted by: Weber State Studies.
|
July 30, 1990 |
C16.6 | “Denial”
First Line: Out on our deck four chairs.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
September 4, 1989 |
C16.7 | “Flying with Bill Rewey”
First Line: They untie tail and wings, tethered against.
Accepted by: George Washington Review.
|
June 24, 1990 |
C16.8 | “Hi There" (Shuntaro Tanikawa, translated
by Yorifumi Yaguchi and Stafford)
First Line: One of the trees in the big forest.
Accepted by: Artful Dodge.
|
September 1, 1984 |
C16.9 | “It Was Even Better Than
Breadloaf”
First Line: A poem about fire turned so real.
Accepted by: Sow’s Ear.
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June 1, 1990 |
C16.10 | “Learned at the Weavers’ Barn”
First Line: You can thread heddles from the center.
Accepted by: Beloit Poetry Journal.
|
August 1, 1982 |
C16.11 | “Little Song”
First Line: The moon comes up so good.
Accepted by: Piedmont Literary Review.
|
July 1, 1990 |
C16.12 | “Looking Out”
First Line: The river, touching its way along, counts.
Accepted by: Weber Studies.
|
February 26, 1990 |
C16.13 | “Macho History”
First Line: Xerxes, and whoever it was raging.
Accepted by: George Washington Review.
|
July 15, 1990 |
C16.14 | “My Favorite Word”
First Line: One night The is coming home from a party.
Accepted by: Acorn.
|
March 1, 1986 |
C16.15 | “Nameplate" (Ishigaki, translated by
Yorifumi Yaguchi and Stafford)
First Line: For the house where you live.
Accepted by: Exhibition.
|
September 1, 1984 |
C16.16 | “Opera Scenery”
First Line: Moving a little when the wind blows.
Accepted by: Blackfish Gallery 1990.
|
April 4, 1989 |
C16.17 | “Passing Along”
First Line: People who walk by carry something so light.
Accepted by: Artful Dodge.
|
December 20, 1989 |
C16.18 | “Report to Wovoka from Carson
City”
First Line: The same air you felt when you dreamed.
Accepted by: Ellipsis.
|
July 27, 1989 |
C16.19 | “Street Names in a Yukon Town”
First Line: Coming alive after dark, streets.
Accepted by: Folio.
|
May 3, 1988 |
C16.20 | “Time”
First Line: It keeps on trying. It examines every.
Accepted by: New Pacific.
|
December 21, 1989 |
C16.21 | “Walking at the Beach”
First Line: Inside the ocean flow great rivers.
Accepted by: Winderness.
|
December 1, 1987 |
C16.22 | “What We Learned in Kansas”
First Line: The same bird sings at all.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
April 1, 1977 |
C16.23 | “World and Its Islands”
First Line: A river finds every island.
Accepted by: Blackfish Gallery 1990.
|
March 10, 1988 |
C17: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1991Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C17
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C17.1 | “Afterwards”
First Line: Gradually certain questions crept back. They.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
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March 14, 1991 |
C17.2 | “Birth" (G. Belev, translation by
Stafford)
First Line: At last the stars looked at me: It’s time!.
Accepted by: Window on Black Sea.
|
undated |
C17.3 | “How I Endured”
First Line: My part of life now learns.
Accepted by: Field.
|
May 20, 1991 |
C17.4 | “How to Be Lucky”
First Line: Curtains at dawn catch that.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
April 21, 1991 |
C17.5 | “Important Moments”
First Line: As the tide turned, Churchill.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
July 19, 1990 |
C17.6 | “In a Low Voice”
First Line: Except for a pumpkin or something, I’d hardly.
Accepted by: Fireweed.
|
December 10, 1990 |
C17.7 | “It’s Coming (G. Belev, translated by
Stafford)”
First Line: Quelled noises.
Accepted by: Window on Black Sea.
|
undated |
C17.8 | “Maurya’s Place”
First Line: From her mountain she sees that soupy air.
Accepted by: Licking River Review.
|
September 1, 1989 |
C17.9 | “Nine”
First Line: Nine was looking toward the right, the way.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 1, 1991 |
C17.10 | “Peter”
First Line: In my gestures your arm will.
|
June 6, 1991 |
C17.11 | “Reaching in the Milky Way”
First Line: We are testing the world. Stars come around.
Accepted by: Journal of Speculative Poetry.
|
December 1, 1990 |
C17.12 | “Rock River”
First Line: It races ahead of the rain.
Accepted by: Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar.
|
December 1, 1990 |
C18: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publications, 1992Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C18
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C18.1 | “Entering History”
First Line: Remember the line in the sand? .
Accepted by: Nation.
|
March 26, 1991 |
C18.2 | “Voyages, Discoveries”
First Line: My dreams disappear in the morning.
Accepted by: Dis? 12/92.
|
April 5, 1992 |
C18.3 | “On a Portrait of Georgia
O’Keefe”
First Line: I am an old woman. This frown on my face.
Accepted by: Cafe Solo.
|
April 3, 1992 |
C18.4 | “Waking Up in Bremerton”
First Line: Maybe this is the day the unfelt earthquake.
Accepted by: Exhibition.
|
June 1, 1992 |
C18.5 | “Lavender" (G. Belev, translation by
Stafford)
First Line: When I first saw.
Accepted by: Window on Black Sea.
|
undated |
C18.6 | “Children" (G. Belev, translated by
Satfford)
First Line: Come back!” our mothers call after us.
Accepted by: Window on Black Sea.
|
undated |
C18.7 | “Comeuppance" (G. Belev, translated by
Stafford)
First Line: Sometime you think about.
Accepted by: Window on Black Sea.
|
undated |
C18.8 | “Author’s House”
First Line: Trying to look like the others, Ursula’s.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 15, 1992 |
C18.9 | “Autumn”
First Line: Down the road old Mrs Drew is raking.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
December 1, 1989 |
C18.10 | “Easy Riddles”
First Line: I lift a signal to the wavy grass. Wait!.
Accepted by: Nighthawk.
|
December 27, 1980 |
C18.11 | “Humanities 101”
First Line: Professor Bob, walking over from Savier Street.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 1, 1992 |
C18.12 | “Kansas Honk”
First Line: Down the road honk, clang.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
June 1, 1979 |
C18.13 | “Landfall”
First Line: In the still picture one leaf begins to move.
Accepted by: Borderlands.
|
February 2, 1992 |
C18.14 | “Messengers”
First Line: The waves have persuaded each other.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
undated |
C18.15 | “My Other Shoes”
First Line: These from Fred Meyer - smooth-soled.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
undated |
C18.16 | “One Little Witness”
First Line: A sparrow might get depressed.
Accepted by: Light.
|
August 18, 1991 |
C18.17 | “Opening an Imperfectly Sealed Time
Capsule”
First Line: Nobody breathe now while I put.
Accepted by: Light.
|
April 1, 1976 |
C18.18 | “Some Notes on the Violin”
First Line: A good one, when it senses an even better sound.
Accepted by: Light.
|
March 12, 1991 |
C18.19 | “Surveying Redmond”
First Line: At Sixth and Main you have.
Accepted by: Calapooya Collage.
|
April 23, 1991 |
C18.20 | “What It All Means”
First Line: The ink on this page wants to tell you about.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
April 1, 1981 |
C19: Additional Poems for a new book, put together / maybe add to “Sometimes I Breathe”, September 1992Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C19
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C19.1 | “For a Meeting of Concerned Citizens,
August 7, 1982”
First Line: Grass is our flag. It whispers “Asia.
|
August 7, 1982 |
C19.2 | “Junior High”
First Line: From school the way home can lead past.
Accepted by: Poets & Writers chapbook.
|
July 6, 1989 |
C19.3 | “Right Time" (prose poem)
First Line: All the lies in our town ran to the river....
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 1, 1989 |
C19.4 | “Right Time" (prose poem)
First Line: All the lies in our town ran to the river one summer.
Accepted by: Field.
|
April 1, 1989 |
C19.5 | “It Comes Lightly Out of the
Sea”
First Line: At night lifting in silence it becomes its own.
Accepted by: Xanadu.
|
undated |
C19.6 | [epigraph for book]
First Line: As one of them says, these things.
|
undated |
C19.7 | [note]
First Line: also any poems....
|
undated |
C19.8 | “How Long Is Always?”
First Line: In a room last night the lonely voice.
Accepted by: Journal of Speculative Poetry.
|
December 10, 1990 |
C19.9 | “Author Calls and Says He Is
Dying”
First Line: Finland, Denmark, wherever - some kind of darkness.
Accepted by: Jeopardy.
|
June 10, 1979 |
C19.10 | “Owyhee Canyon”
First Line: After we climbed out of the whirlpool, survivors.
Accepted by: Chariton Review.
|
December 10, 1981 |
C19.11 | “Last Service”
First Line: Good morning, Mr Custer. May I.
Accepted by: Michigan Quarterly Review.
|
June 10, 1979 |
C19.12 | “Campanile”
First Line: Some time you will come back to this town, and its bell.
Accepted by: Beloit.
|
December 1, 1990 |
C19.13 | “Few Words from the Little
Woman”
First Line: Do you mind if I tell you something? When you talk.
Accepted by: American Scholar.
|
June 15, 1990 |
C19.14 | “Me”
First Line: Muscle and bone, I ramble.
Accepted by: Plum Review.
|
August 1, 1990 |
C19.15 | “Fixers”
First Line: On back roads you can find people.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
September 21, 1989 |
C20: Unpublished Put-together: "24 Poems Good for a Book", 30 June 1993Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C20
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C20.1 | “Opening Scene”
First Line: It’s just the Earth, a great still body.
Accepted by: Four Quarters.
|
September 18, 1992 |
C20.2 | “Apologia pro Vita Sua”
First Line: Why did you go, of an afternoon, there.
Accepted by: Four Quarters.
|
August 1, 1992 |
C20.3 | “Both of You”
First Line: Come along, feet; we’re going to find.
Accepted by: Four Quarters.
|
January 6, 1992 |
C20.4 | “Through Air, Through Glass”
First Line: As mimes place their hands on invisible walls around
them.
Accepted by: Princeton Library Chronicle.
|
undated |
C20.5 | “Things You Hear”
First Line: How a piece of the sky got lost one night.
Accepted by: Prairie Winds.
|
March 25, 1992 |
C20.6 | “Any Morning”
First Line: Just lying on the couch and being happy.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
December 23, 1992 |
C20.7 | “Thinking about the Natives”
First Line: You find relics they left, sorry.
Accepted by: Footwork.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C20.8 | “Some People Know”
First Line: A certain hunger at times sharpens abruptly.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
May 1, 1993 |
C20.9 | “Bio: Fitting into My Years”
First Line: Back then the people around us confidently.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
December 1, 1992 |
C20.10 | “Evidence”
First Line: First, this face - history did it .
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
|
January 19, 1993 |
C20.11 | “Mein Kampf”
First Line: In those reaches of the night when your thoughts.
Accepted by: Georgia Review.
|
February 15, 1993 |
C20.12 | “Writing”
First Line: You rub two words together.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 24, 1992 |
C20.13 | “Philosophical Investigations”
First Line: Is it true that every morning a gong.
Accepted by: Light.
|
February 1, 1992 |
C20.14 | “Easter Morning”
First Line: Maybe someone comes to the door and says.
Accepted by: Cream City Review.
|
April 19, 1992 |
C20.15 | “Storm Coming”
First Line: Even in the barn, air faintly.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
April 21, 1992 |
C20.16 | “Hummingbirds”
First Line: Too small to feel fear, one arrives.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 1, 1992 |
C20.17 | “Cliff Dweller”
First Line: You could say I live on Acoma, steep.
Accepted by: Bankshelter Press.
|
March 15, 1991 |
C20.18 | “Proposition”
First Line: Pretend our house is on an ordinary street.
Accepted by: Willow Springs.
|
June 1, 1990 |
C20.19 | “In the Deep Mirror”
First Line: Teeth as they happen to be, a face.
Accepted by: Kansas Quarterly.
|
September 1, 1980 |
C20.20 | “One Day”
First Line: Near dawn old boxes in the attic.
Accepted by: Yankee.
|
November 1, 1986 |
C20.21 | “From the Anderson
Refrigerator”
First Line: Someone in this house has to tell it.
Accepted by: Southern California Anthology.
|
March 18, 1991 |
C20.22 | “Epiphanies of an Old-Model Hoover" (3
versions)
First Line: That time I glanced away when.
Accepted by: Cream City Review.
|
September 5, 1989 |
C20.23 | “Friend Who Never Came" (2
versions)
First Line: It has not been given to me to have a friend.
Accepted by: New Letters.
|
January 1, 1974 |
C21: "OK Copies not in a book", 1950-1981Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C21
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
C21.1 | “Farewell at a Writers’
Conference”
First Line: As you go out, notice the barrel by the door.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
July 1, 1981 |
C21.2 | “Along the Margin”
First Line: In the carpet factory they all sing.
Accepted by: Review La Booche.
|
September 1, 1975 |
C21.3 | “Available Light”
First Line: Hungry Camera met World, and.
Accepted by: University of Kansas City Review.
|
September 1, 1970 |
C21.4 | “Leaving a Writers’
Conference”
First Line: When we all leave here tomorrow.
Accepted by: Brockport Review.
|
August 1, 1981 |
C21.5 | “What Lasts”
First Line: Animal I am, but other, other.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
|
June 4, 1975 |
C21.6 | “Along About Now”
First Line: A stranger runs before you at every.
Accepted by: American Poetry Review.
|
September 1, 1971 |
C21.7 | “Sonnet 747 [New Forms &
Old?]”
First Line: You can load on almost anything.
Accepted by: Nimrod.
|
February 1, 1977 |
C21.8 | “Thought That Is Real”
First Line: You came in my thought. Wind blew, rain.
Accepted by: Jason.
|
September 1, 1978 |
C21.9 | “Your Life”
First Line: There had to be people troubling you. Often.
Accepted by: Stamen.
|
September 1, 1969 |
C21.10 | “On the Way HOme from Alaska”
First Line: Those rivers wander saying aloud.
Accepted by: The Other Side.
|
August 1, 1968 |
C21.11 | “Shapes in the Country”
First Line: They have risen, but no more: they stand there.
Accepted by: Small Farm .
|
May 1, 1978 |
C21.12 | “Going Back”
First Line: Lone tree, lost flake, torn cabin wall.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
October 1, 1977 |
C21.13 | “Leading the Water In”
First Line: If you begin a little past where the water comes.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
July 1, 1977 |
C21.14 | “Silent Partner”
First Line: On Mars great storms rehearse through empty time.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
|
February 1, 1979 |
C21.15 | “Reading Their Talk”
First Line: They’ll tell you, yes; but what you know.
Accepted by: Hawaii Review.
|
August 25, 1980 |
C21.16 | “Early Waking”
First Line: Across an easy field, rolling and small.
Accepted by: Paintbrush.
|
October 7, 1981 |
C21.17 | “Brother FIre”
First Line: It took years. At first a gust.
Accepted by: Passages North.
|
June 1, 1980 |
C21.18 | “Said Between Dark and Light”
First Line: Outside the darkroom, light hammers.
Accepted by: Perceptions.
|
September 1, 1974 |
C21.19 | “Campus Ballad”
First Line: On a ukelele or something else little.
Accepted by: Granta.
|
September 1, 1962 |
C21.20 | “Hornet (2 versions)”
First Line: An earthquake with wings caught in.
Accepted by: Oregon Rainbow.
|
May 1, 1976 |
C21.21 | “Last Rain”
First Line: What water does, it goes.
Accepted by: Colorado Quarterly.
|
August 1, 1965 |
C21.22 | “Being Someone Else”
First Line: In your picture you hold that other beside you.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
August 1, 1976 |
C21.23 | “Box in the Library”
First Line: Because my eyes are dark.
Accepted by: Christian Science Monitor.
|
February 1, 1976 |
C21.24 | “After Work”
First Line: Things people say drift by on.
Accepted by: Kansas City Star.
|
September 1, 1973 |
C21.25 | “Fox Escapes Park Zoo””
First Line: When the bears paced like statesmen.
Accepted by: New Orleans Poetry Journal.
|
October 6, 1950 |
C21.26 | “Exile”
First Line: Farther than owls call, still.
Accepted by: Wisconsin Review.
|
July 1, 1985 |
C21.27 | “Driving the Valley Road”
First Line: It shocks even yet, that plunge.
Accepted by: Clockwatch Review.
|
February 1, 1986 |
C21.28 | “Etude”
First Line: You could say “Moonlight.” That would be enough.
Accepted by: Memphis State Review.
|
January 1, 1986 |
C21.29 | “Dear Reader”
First Line: There should be a wall so strong.
Accepted by: Chicago Choice.
|
June 1, 1966 |
C21.30 | “Management”
First Line: If we could plan the news.
Accepted by: Rook Broadsides.
|
May 1, 1966 |
C21.31 | “Poet in Residence (Holding the Roethke
Chair 1)”
First Line: Little quarrels among the keys.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
June 1, 1972 |
C21.32 | “Facing His Scary Tradition (Holding the
Roethke Chair 2)”
First Line: That sleek contempt of his, a sudden gust.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
June 1, 1972 |
C21.33 | “Learning from Students (Holding the
Roethke Chair 3)”
First Line: You come early to the office, and they.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
July 12, 1972 |
C21.34 | “John Haines, en Route to Alaska, Reminds
Us of Steppenwolf (Holding the Roethke Chair 4)”
First Line: When you cross your arms and stand.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
July 10, 1972 |
C21.35 | “Poet Thinks of Searching Questions During
an Interview (Holding the Roethke Chair 5)”
First Line: Have you a place where, when the world.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
August 9, 1972 |
C21.36 | “From Those Early Ones (Holding the
Roethke Chair 6)”
First Line: Any day when you are resting.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
July 1, 1972 |
C21.37 | “Summer Apartment: Living Alone (Holding
the Roethke Chair 7)”
First Line: In my stocking feet I dance.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
June 1, 1972 |
C21.38 | “Some Remarks After Class (Holding the
Roethke Chair 8)”
First Line: In the news the kids are playing with matches again.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
July 6, 1972 |
C21.39 | “Last Day’s Assignment: See Something
[Holding the Roethke Chair 9]”
First Line: Full length, a grassblade saws a stone.
Accepted by: Choice.
|
July 27, 1972 |
C21.40 | “During the Evening News”
First Line: Things that happen at the same time.
Accepted by: Saturday Review.
|
February 1, 1963 |
C21.41 | “Farewell, Summer”
First Line: One of the leaves from.
Accepted by: Hudson Review.
|
September 1, 1966 |
C21.42 | “How the Real Bible Is
Written”
First Line: Once we painted our house and went into it.
Accepted by: Southern Review.
|
December 1, 1969 |
C21.43 | “In a Churchyard”
First Line: If I had a name.
Accepted by: In the Clock of Reason.
|
December 1, 1968 |
C21.44 | “Bergman”
First Line: You begin with stillness. You make it.
Accepted by: Western Humanities Review.
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November 1, 1975 |
C21.45 | “At the Sorting Room”
First Line: Tonight sorting old clothes for the poor.
Accepted by: Western Review.
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April 15, 1952 |
C21.46 | “When We Were Poor”
First Line: I had a comb.
Accepted by: Northwest Review.
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January 1, 1968 |
C21.47 | “How It Is on Earth”
First Line: Weather is everywhere. In even the stillest country.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
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May 16, 1984 |
C21.48 | “Vacationing at a Resort”
First Line: If you wear blue, and if a bird.
Accepted by: Brockport Writers Forum.
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July 1, 1981 |
C21.49 | “Consistency [Being Alone]”
First Line: The deepest mole, already almost blind.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
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November 7, 1980 |
C21.50 | “Forging a Passport”
First Line: On the north side where wind and water.
Accepted by: mag in Hawaii 12/80.
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November 12, 1980 |
C21.51 | “From the New Docent at the
Museum”
First Line: Here in this picture you are explaining.
Accepted by: Spectrum.
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October 1, 1977 |
C21.52 | “So What?”
First Line: Some of the things I do.
Accepted by: Ontario Review.
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December 1, 1981 |
C21.53 | “Writer in Residence”
First Line: At first when I wrote it was daylight.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
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September 1, 1975 |
C21.54 | “Walking in the Meadow”
First Line: Careful fish tiptoe under the bank.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
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August 1, 1976 |
C21.55 | “En Route”
First Line: Allegiances ahead, the spider floats.
Accepted by: Small Farm.
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June 1, 1956 |
C21.56 | “One of My Letters”
First Line: My letter to you fell into a river.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
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July 1, 1978 |
C21.57 | “One of the Ways”
First Line: We grappled that bird quiet between us.
Accepted by: Paris Review.
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July 1, 1977 |
C21.58 | “Being Contemporary”
First Line: A touch and we awake and it’s Monday.
Accepted by: Bellingham Review.
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October 1, 1976 |
C21.59 | “Being Saved”
First Line: One of the ways will occur to you.
Accepted by: Southern California Review.
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January 1, 1973 |
C22: Typescripts of Poems Accepted for Journal Publication, 1993Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C22
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C22.1 | “Leaving the Island”
First Line: Anyway, a few sparrows will come by, mostly.
Accepted by: Harvard Review.
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April 8, 1993 |
C22.2 | “Old Friends”
First Line: Some faces make a hole in the air.
Accepted by: Interim.
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December 29, 1992 |
C22.3 | “Grandmother”
First Line: They draped her shawl across her chair and folded.
Accepted by: ELF.
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October 7, 1992 |
C22.4 | “Slow News from Our Place”
First Line: It isn’t that the blossoms fall, Ezra.
Accepted by: Tar River Poetry.
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May 7, 1993 |
C22.5 | “And So On and So On”
First Line: In my country people begin to walk the way.
Accepted by: Tule.
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October 5, 1992 |
C22.6 | “Eating the Map”
First Line: Sometimes you see a wild flower chinning itself on the
edge.
Accepted by: 1000 Friends of Oregon.
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May 1, 1993 |
C22.7 | “Rock Presented by a Friend from
Alaska”
First Line: Where the mountains come true after no one.
Accepted by: Chicago Review.
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April 7, 1987 |
C22.8 | “Inoffensive”
First Line: You can say “Sorry” but.
Accepted by: Listening Eye.
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March 1, 1993 |
C22.9 | “One Sudden Indian”
First Line: When my father claimed it, we laughed. Then.
Accepted by: Footwork.
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July 27, 1991 |
C22.10 | “Writing It Down”
First Line: We pitied our uncle, the odd face.
Accepted by: West Wind Review.
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undated |
C22.11 | “Filling a Need”
First Line: If you go east along Main Street you see.
Accepted by: West Wind Review.
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March 12, 1993 |
C22.12 | “After Life’s Fever”
First Line: Even if Time keeps flashing its badge.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
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October 13, 1992 |
C22.13 | “Speaking in Tongues”
First Line: Every word flares a color, a twinkle of light.
Accepted by: Ohio Review.
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undated |
C22.14 | “Voices in the Garden”
First Line: Pretty soon,” spring flowers whisper.
Accepted by: Mariflo Stevens tomato book.
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April 1, 1992 |
C22.15 | “Report from the Heartland”
First Line: My life has brought me here, this town.
Accepted by: Plainsong.
|
undated |
C22.16 | “For Someone Gone”
First Line: If I called from a booth, if the phone rang.
Accepted by: Four Quarters.
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January 10, 1991 |
C22.17 | “Slant Message”
First Line: Tell them how tame geese lure wild ones.
Accepted by: Wilderness.
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December 1, 1992 |
C22.1: Typescripts of "Translations" (from Spanish of Aleixandre, Estelles, Gonzalez, Hidalgo, Lorca, Montres, Unamuno), 1993Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder Box 17/Folder C22.1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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C23.1 | Title not given
Poem by: Vicente Andres Estelles.
Translated by: Jaume P. Montaner, Vance Savage, William Stafford.
Publication information: Not published?
|
undated |
C23.2 | Title not given
Poem by: Vicente Andres Estelles.
Translated by: Jaume P. Montaner, Vance Savage, William Stafford.
Publication information: Not published?
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undated |
C23.3A | “It Is Night, in My Study”
Poem by: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
Translated by: Lillian Jean Stafford, William Stafford.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 29, no. 4;
Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.3B | “It Is Night, in My Study”
Poem by: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
Translated by: Lillian Jean Stafford, William Stafford.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 29, no 4;
Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.4A | “Summer in Slumville”
Poem by: Angel Gonzalez.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.4B | “Summer in Slumville”
Poem by: Angel Gonzalez.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.5A | “The Battlefield”
Poem by: Angel Gonzalez.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.5B | “The Battlefield”
Poem by: Angel Gonzalez.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.6A | “You Have to Go Down”
Poem by: Jose Luis Hidalgo.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.6B | “You Have to Go Down”
Poem by: Jose Luis Hidalgo.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.7A | “In Front of the Mirror”
Poem by: Vicente Aleixandre.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.7B | “In Front of the Mirror”
Poem by: Vicente Aleixandre.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Malahat Review 4; Roots
and Wings.
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undated |
C23.8A | “Quarrel”
Poem by: Frederico Garcia Lorca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 29, no. 5;
Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.8B | “Quarrel”
Poem by: Frederico Garcia Lorca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Herbert Baird.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 29, no. 5;
Roots and Wings.
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undated |
C23.9A | “Song for Celebrating What Won’t
Die”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: December 7, Translations by American
Poets.
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undated |
C23.9B | “Song for Celebrating What Won’t
Die”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: December 7, Translations by American
Poets.
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undated |
C23.10 | “The Clown’s Farewell”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2.
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undated |
C23.11A | “9”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2;
Translations by American Poets.
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undated |
C23.11B | “9”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2;
Translations by American Poets.
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undated |
C23.12A | “The Unreachable Sun”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2.
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undated |
C23.12B | “The Unreachable Sun”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2.
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undated |
C23.13 | “The Unreachable Sun”
Poem by: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.
Translated by: William Stafford, Paul Luenow.
Publication information: Kenyon Review 27, no. 2.
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undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Pacifism--Poetry.
- Pacifism--United States.
- Poetry -- Authorship.
- Poetry -- Study and teaching.
- Poetry--20th century.
- Poets, American--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States.
Personal Names
- Stafford, Dorothy
- Stafford, William, 1914-1993--Archives
Corporate Names
- Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)
Geographical Names
- Kansas.
- Oregon.
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Stafford, Kim (creator)