First line: In the whispering blue vault

First line: The double nature...(prose)

First line: Before winter sunrise there was a moonday

First line: I am seldom in

First line: The reason trees drop surprises

First line: When I hear them relax with hymns

First line: Around that grass corner... (story)

First line: Sloped as it was and rounded

First line: Before daylight it was moon-day

First line: When we sit on the front seat

First line: Stalking the Image (prose) “ ‘51? / ‘53?”

First line: After work the end of town broke and went sailing off

First line: Touch, you griever; now you never

First line: Looking down across that hello way

First line: Knowing some hydro, you generate by drop

First line: Swimming in this mild element Iowa

First line: Cars the farmers drive

First line: Sleeping under a blue blanket

First line: Reaching from the hills worn down years ago

First line: Little people partly hidden....(story)

First line: You reading this page--these trials:--

First line: Jamming on the brakes I was saved

First line: Driving the coast route north I thought about Pascal

First line: A person does a little wrong... (story)

First line: The next story:--the north bend of the railroad... (story)

First line: Hickok, who heard bullets whistle

First line: A stone, one tired people sat on, by a path / In Ovid is a stone of sadness

First line: How this man grew old, light as rain

First line: I saw fur foxes drinking lemonade

First line: One of the men on the prison road crew... (story)

First line: When you give too much, you freeze

First line: One day the earth gave too much

First line: A word that comes in only when trouble looms

First line: If you, house, hill, tree, any little stone

First line: Every life the poor body seeks its own evil

First line: The one crooked mountain and the straight rain

First line: Knighted, the good receive their merit

First line: Wind, you griever

First line: In Ovid is the stone of sadness

First line: In the fought war they wheeled the cannon

First line: Poetry Workshop (prose)

First line: Then I heard the wind rising, and I didn’t believe

First line: Walking in the dark Mexican sandals

First line: The place was a school... (story)

First line: With some kind of song they started the first morning

First line: Put it all into the hands of a demon

First line: Whatever is worst is the foundation

First line: Whatever is worst is the foundation

First line: The novice you are

First line: When I started to write a paper... (prose)

First line: When they ration sunbeams [3/10/51]

First line: When they ration sunbeams

First line: In the dark on my home street snowflakes nibble

First line: The sun will find every valley or go blind

First line: Everywhere, not connected, not tangible, but operative

First line: Jesus, thy white shadow

First line: Hickok heard bullets whistle

First line: Following the slow wagons

First line: Hissed by wind, our northern town

First line: Wind becomes the sky

First line: I dreamed I visited... (dream)

First line: Cold stream that follows under night street

First line: Remember when you were poor in love

First line: Four stories (titles only)

First line: Thru the wall voices rebounded a lost question

First line: The argument with gravity

First line: Grayer than silver, every night in the sky

First line: These turtles come out of coat collars all over the nation

First line: All of that pain behind the eyes

First line: When we danced in the kitchen

First line: The dusty carcass of Ridgeville...(story start)

First line: I saw the girls like pilgrims on the steps

First line: Pulling along the edge of cruel

First line: Down thru those expectations to the first

First line: Rolling around like quicksilver in the world

First line: Each word, each thought, today is hot

First line: Turn away, make the neck turn sweet

First line: Dead flowers visited by a redbird

First line: He will return jetting circles of fate

First line: For a while shooting hard was the easiest

First line: When I was carrying a hot skillet

First line: Lonely Mrs Carway lived... (story)

First line: Because our parents were vindictive (story)

First line: A fox forgot his way rock by rock

First line: We had a pet leopard... (dream)

First line: At the end of the trip to the bottom... (dream)

First line: They accepted your letter today, Curwood

First line: There aren’t many hills to come out on

First line: Those black flares workmen put

First line: Living on that ranch was far

First line: Dog eat dog, so my mother said

First line: I was sitting in workshop while Shapiro talked

First line: The ranger’s name was Hawk

First line: I have not a neat and cloistered virtue

First line: Beginning to hold it like a book

First line: At the headwaters of the Amazon

First line: Jody’s hair, plastered down...(story)

First line: Albuquerque was bleak in the day...(story)

First line: Now smooth with squaw-carpet grass

First line: Now smooth with squaw-carpet grass

First line: They have a saying... (story)

First line: Diane had been a bridesmaid so often(story)

First line: Below the bridge on the downstream side

First line: As soon as I saw him... (story)

First line: The gears were wire-shrill, every tire spit adobe

First line: In the mine I shovel for

First line: Fireman on the Plumas run has a bear cub

First line: In the evening canyon above Pasadena

First line: Looking at one point, evenly

First line: Into any sound important

First line: In sundown Albuquerque strips of a new serape

First line: All the space around us can win

First line: Through the morning streets before light

First line: The closer that clue the farther the wire

First line: Lifting out of the road sixty-aimed

First line: Never any rounder, wheel, wheel

First line: All he explained was, “I want you to talk to a drowning man” (story)

First line: My affair with truth... (prose)

First line: In the realm of touch-is-true

First line: Rent by the blunt maul much as river ice cracked

First line: The Arkansas River held its way in the creamy mud

First line: Trees were burning up the soil, they said

First line: An expert batting with tweazers squeezes a flaw

First line: Wyoming has no pocket, an open hand

First line: The air too hot or cold

First line: Eneas was left on the broken shore in a vessel without any poop

First line: The brakes know our car when the road is wet

First line: It is the axe floating thru tree shade on my shoulder

First line: Possessed have so much pony

First line: Going in toward the shoulders of animals

First line: These are faint lines for a distant tiger’s gaze

First line: In the world’s enterprise babies are the bumpers

First line: From stone-age M.A. I climb

First line: Wherever snow came you came

First line: Everyone told Mr. Galke that he had an ideal home (story)

First line: Down in the frantic mountains

First line: They say that wild cats printed

First line: The farmer and wife stall in their old car(story

First line: Striking the frozen ground or bending the sky

First line: The Grovers adopted those girls, (story)

First line: We have a son goes through this town like a weasel

First line: Every June they came to the cliff (story)

First line: It’s out in the woods in the cold cold rain

First line: In the earth under us mound after mound by thousands

First line: The mountains came around close on the north

First line: As he glanced into the dim bedroom (story)

First line: Climbing past ice-cream parties

First line: He could see - he knew ... (end of story)

First line: The mountains crowded around on the north

First line: The teeters leaned for final

First line: A spring flowing from lava near Hagerman

First line: Springs flow from lava near Hagerman

First line: It has been given that Hester walks proud

First line: The regular beating of a watch...(story/prose)

First line: Of all the leads our valley granted

First line: The wheat in Kansas in the pit

First line: Eyes of opulence

First line: Reading the street, letting fear print the screen

First line: Downstream they have organized a hemorrhage in the dam

First line: On every merrygoround there is one hideous rider

First line: In this house where our hearts beat

First line: At the kids’ playground holding on with hands

First line: Advancing through wisting air

First line: In the late hours having scrubbed up venom heads

First line: Pale, because they are somewhere on a cliff

First line: When he came in, stupidly gazing (story)

First line: In any field how wild the roots rive, unseen

First line: Coming closer than halt, the chopper swings

First line: In gratitude for deserts, any scape and rest

First line: The snarling chrome and cars that jargon rides

First line: The Friends were meeting (story or dream)

First line: The Dutch walk under the sea, but their dike land holds

First line: Five oclock wings into the office; sweeping his broom

First line: I hear a late clock strike. Once more it stalks

First line: Gulls, two, puffed in the white part

First line: I hear the late clock strike. Once more it stalks

First line: He watched her come out of the big house (story)

First line: I wonder what city they build

First line: Farther back then the proud white geese

First line: Tho I all new ways turn

First line: Dreaming at night the rootfish turn

First line: This eye that looked wide at the world’s great eye [10/?/51]

First line: This eye that looked wide at the world’s great eye

First line: Because our church cut the wind

First line: When people try so hard, reaching out to hold whatever (five prose pieces)

First line: The lariat hands traveling itself

First line: Such mountain as may heart the range

First line: A low sun beats in the hollow ivory

First line: Can the hungry dog put you down in the kitchen

First line: Teeth at heel, river at call

First line: Stealing off through the anvil

First line: I saw this green, green, until the sky green

First line: All the stealthy Shakespeare stirring

First line: It was wrong and the knife bent

First line: They say spangles from the sun

First line: All the bridge-brace in evening

First line: Down at the mortgage end of town

First line: I stand on the mortgage end of town

First line: Taught my house no higher class

First line: Down thru the fright forest good rooted

First line: Going wide, and pale went stalking into the braced

First line: Rain forest got start on little trees

First line: Winter stares from all the windows

First line: The which of me the shadow was

First line: Stealing off thru the anvil

First line: The art building they made plain

First line: The little cities on the floor

First line: A sober song two-sparrows long

First line: I’ll sing any time you ask me (story)

First line: Dorothy had to cross the bridge (story/dream)

First line: In the things he said, in the undergrowth

First line: In scenery, I like flat country

First line: Salt birds flirt from the weed patch

First line: It is written hard that I will follow

First line: That art broker in the middle of the world

First line: The top of the land stolen

First line: I dreamed an old woman (prose pieces)

First line: What is he really like?” (story)

First line: Toward sunset when the shadows of people are Lincoln...

First line: After winter hog-tied

First line: Crabs in the ocean lifting their hands

First line: We met here in this lightning room [12/?/51]

First line: Circles drawn with a burnt stick

First line: On a canal moving toward the low banks

First line: That morning they watched the child

First line: Chickens move out over the field

First line: I stand on the mortgage edge of town

First line: Going around in their slow day

First line: Going around in their slow day

First line: Having stolen my future, should I give it back

First line: In front of the postoffice holding the adaptable flag

First line: I have lived in the room bigger than the world

First line: Christ will come the day the world ends

First line: Dogs that eat fish edging tidewater die

First line: Migrations of little positive things

First line: Dogs that eat fish at the edge of tidewater die

First line: I have lived in that room bigger than the world

First line: By going toward the north

First line: I have lived in that room bigger than the world

First line: This eye looked wide at the world’s great eye

First line: The stove, not burning but warm

First line: You darked from broken things out home

First line: We met there in that lightning room

First line: Dreaming at night, the rootfish turn

First line: A low sun in the hollow ivory beats

First line: In World’s Enterprise, Inc., babies are the bumpers

First line: From stone-age M.A. I climb

First line: My cold love is for all I ought

First line: In gratitude for deserts, any scape and rest

First line: Lifting out of the road sixty-aimed

First line: I hear the late clock strike. Once more it stalks

First line: Two gulls puffed in the white part

First line: The Dutch walk under the sea but their dike land holds

First line: Intermittently the world between flashes of lightning

First line: I hear the late clock strike, once more it stalks

First line: They gave a trick to my Uncle River

First line: The later Wordsworth...(Page of aphorisms)

First line: At blink when we looked, a world had already dropped

First line: The axe floating through tree shade on my shoulder

First line: The little black pony bought to carry the boys

First line: The axe floating through tree shade on my shoulder

First line: Into any sound important

First line: Down in the frantic mountains

First line: You reading this page, these trials

First line: A cold stream follows under night street

First line: Remember when you were poor in love

First line: In Oregon shadowed great swards of baneberry

First line: When we danced in the kitchen

First line: Sang here in Iowa but not for long

First line: Most of the strongest dreads... (aphorisms)

First line: Historians and others... (aphorisms)

First line: For any city on submerged foundations

First line: This groove I have helped make

First line: Come, darling, by some freighter home

First line: All the ways out of the room:

First line: Share that gleamed thru this furrow day

First line: The wind at altitude never stop[s]

First line: Thru the drowned lands to Vincennes

First line: Look, I have carried this ugly face

First line: Walking along in this not quite prose way

First line: Saved by forgetting and neglect, aloud

First line: Charred mountains that sunset reforested

First line: We must be careful what we learn to like

First line: Becoming the river, a girl I saw

First line: Over the edge of the world, wagons and sails

First line: We meet here in this lightning room

First line: A man in the mountains was a roll of string

First line: When day struck

First line: By one elaborate wave our ocean graced

First line: The way the deaf read thunder (story)

First line: All the woven darkness is informed by stars

First line: On the launched earth waving a look

First line: Lightning sewed the eye to heart-shaped echoes (poem opening)

First line: Person takes kids to airport (story)

First line: Alone here with a stranger

First line: A constant metaphor

First line: The iceberg that hit the Titanic

First line: Tadashi held his hands folded (story)

First line: The premises need inspection, foreigner[s]

First line: The people who ate butternut bark

First line: Let him come back first and voyage

First line: The eagle, a tone-deaf glorious bird

First line: On the pelt walls it said, “Fool,

First line: On the pelt wall it said, “Fool,

First line: Newman says (page of prose)

First line: Every bite the grass made on my finger

First line: I ran those rabbits, children, deep in a plum thicket

First line: In the sky city of sleet

First line: They been who thought fang worst

First line: Sure to be warm, we have sat

First line: Happy to be what I’m going to be

First line: Driven through youth councils

First line: Driven through the councils of the young

First line: Kim heaped coals of fire (page of prose)

First line: The cold of remembering in this March wind

First line: Hunting for that broken stick

First line: By these deep engines we live with

First line: A figure like a man down by the river

First line: City Woodcraft (page of prose)

First line: The camel giving its level look

First line: Coming near at the sneeze interval

First line: When the lag wire told Sunday

First line: Alone here with a stranger

First line: On the launched earth helpless

First line: Coming near at sneeze intervals

First line: In the March rain

First line: Driving those days thru the White Woman Basin

First line: By one elaborate wave, the way the deaf read thunder

First line: Lightning sewed eyes all over the sky

First line: Some time following out a sound

First line: The bow I could bend when I was ten years old

First line: By holding close to the field and that angle of street

First line: Reading Anglo-Saxon charms... (p of prose)

First line: In the glass garden of any chance meeting

First line: You in the dark out there

First line: Half of the faces in clouds or along the street

First line: The spaniel-heard boot came near

First line: The Pregnant Women of Pasadena (story)

First line: And the quality in a thing of being perceived

First line: At night creating mushrooms

First line: Tonight sorting old clothes for the poor

First line: Out of our flickering state tonight

First line: One summer night, all sound held in the cornfield farms

First line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower

First line: In cold life bricks are the best citizens

First line: Ours is turned-about time

First line: In cold life bricks are the best citizens

First line: When you left our house and went falling

First line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower

First line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower

First line: Jake Le Claire on his rounds, the watchman

First line: This is the way they had to fall

First line: At every level, down to duck feet on the pavement

First line: In this dry light of summer

First line: Daniel stood all day in a furnace of craving

First line: There is a cave - the solid world

First line: In aquarium room flashing credentials

First line: At the top of any hill something bland

First line: Back home in Kansas we admired

First line: One year ago we came to Oregon

First line: There is a caravan evading daylight

First line: In two columns down this path

First line: In less relief, the way time treats a carving

First line: At every check station folding nickels into my pocket

First line: This axe floating thru tree shade

First line: In midflight darkening, we are on two voyages

First line: The librarian in a little suburb (complete story outline)

First line: Hold it high as the stars rush through

First line: Parallel beamed on the railroad track strings

First line: Picking up chores the first fall day

First line: An old duck hunter, or a farmer

First line: Woman does something drastic (story)

First line: In my throat as the day is wide

First line: My father could hear a little animal step

First line: Parallel beamed on railroad track strings

First line: In between beats the secret practice [9/20/52]

First line: That field and hungry fire

First line: Not so early as dark; after the dead sleep

First line: Half the cars by our house are going to the coast

First line: Know all men, and women especially

First line: Every road goes toward, or away from, the river

First line: Going back into obsolete paradises

First line: Down all the narrowing roads

First line: Anybody here know the old dance?

First line: Necessary for them, or necessary for me?

First line: Iron against iron in brake shoe irreconcilable

First line: In the road ahead there was a bridge (story)

First line: Out in our neighborhood... (story)

First line: From train, truck, army, and ship

First line: In all blue glass

First line: You around here, in the easy roads

First line: Picking up chores the first fall day

First line: Because our world hardened

First line: A field and hungry fire

First line: Anybody here know the old dance?

First line: The eerie eyes of normal people

First line: Honest will the railroad

First line: Janey could eat at our pasture

First line: Following step by step

First line: Going down to the river

First line: It is kindness to hear the rain

First line: The chickens running around, one day old

First line: Cloud and wind in the open

First line: In my molasses ritual, letting go of the spoon

First line: All those dear mistakes I am untrue to

First line: That same level flavors all my life

First line: Think of the legend in Bantu

First line: Between knowing and not knowing

First line: Whatever the country amounts to

First line: In our craving furnace and up the flume

First line: Around the bend we heard it squall

First line: One night I faced the stars

First line: Day after day up there beating my wings

First line: The sun parades the earth

First line: Day after day up there beating my wings

First line: You around here on the easy roads

First line: From train, truck, army, and ship

First line: In the old logging camp light was faint

First line: Following step by step

First line: Near the river meadow

First line: It is kindness to hear the rain

First line: The tree soaring from deer head

First line: We didn’t know if we owned Janey

First line: My suicide soul manning this submarine

First line: My suicide soul manning this submarine

First line: Tonight sorting old clothes for the poor

First line: Tonight sorting old clothes for the poor

First line: My suicide soul manning a submarine

First line: Inside the mapletree snow-wood [12/1/52]

First line: Walking on the hills alien

First line: Picking the rock way, I must inform you good

First line: The hidden streams of Oregon

First line: Let this explorer walk by, imminent

First line: A man I met in the field

First line: Tonight sorting old clothes for the poor

First line: Under the killdeer cry [Our People]

First line: The sun looks over the earth

First line: Only when on a white morning I can see

First line: We always went into oceans

First line: Near the door, watching the people (story)

First line: The hidden streams of Oregon

First line: Reserve in the sun

First line: Why that neat wood respects board-ness

First line: Most clouds follow the world

First line: The wideness in the eyes

First line: Dizzy on the tilting cliff when

First line: Many a time the practiced wave

First line: Because our world hardened

First line: You./ Circlebrace river come near

First line: Faster and faster till I heard the little high voices

First line: In that sequence, breathe out, in,

First line: We were coming to the country near Gray Burr

First line: It is of interest how I just happened to be coming into Gray Burr on Christmas...(story)

First line: If the world should flare into the night with me

First line: Sunflowers pressd for veins of coal

First line: In every foot on carpet fled

First line: In our boundary saying our boundless dream

First line: He heard the high little voices climb

First line: Under the killdeer cry

First line: To have gone down alone [draft of “killdeer”]

First line: Past untenable hawk

First line: With crossway column of light

First line: We didn’t like anything to happen

First line: Finding the nest of the lark

First line: In the winter woods along the river... (story)

First line: Richening, ripening sinks the sun

First line: Fame or flowers around a farm

First line: You are the springtime range of all wild thought

First line: They have the sky here

First line: Running out of our house

First line: Scattering parts of my life

First line: In shafts that gut the mountain

First line: The only way to be is change

First line: You are the springtime range of all of my thought

First line: The career of blue

First line: I do not find you so dreadful

First line: Waiting for you on a cliff

First line: True the aim into the mahogany cells

First line: When you left our door and went falling

First line: I saw those harbor lights

First line: We came around the slow hills

First line: Leading any white robed Aunt Bland

First line: Crossed in kindness to be direct and wild

First line: Standing there on the sunny pavement

First line: Out of quonset bouncing Bibles

First line: In the glass garden of our chance meeting

First line: In the Southwest going by the canyons

First line: On the edge of night in the hills

First line: On the fair way by the arch

First line: One summer night, all round held in the farms

First line: On that island

First line: Dedicate by no sign

First line: The silent place on Main Street

First line: The wounds made on the world by sunlight

First line: Half of all chairs reserve it

First line: After cool evening going down the hill

First line: Now, all at once, in windows of their homes

First line: After sundown we sat facing the poplar trees

First line: I hear a dog named Eagle smelling mountains

First line: Member only of minority groups

First line: The open, easy way of Kim

First line: Through root, through flower, out air

First line: Shoe soles holding up the earth

First line: In the old logging camp light was faint

First line: This now is all the time” .(story)

First line: On a winter day by the corner bell

First line: If the top of the land be stolen

First line: This groove I have helped make

First line: By one elaborate wave our ocean graced

First line: All the ways out of the room

First line: These old premises need inspection. Foreigner

First line: Can the hungry dog put you down in the kitchen

First line: By one elaborate wave our ocean graced

First line: The camels withhold their lewd look

First line: Coming near at the sneeze interval

First line: On the pelt wall it said, “Fool"

First line: Old premises need inspection: foreigners

First line: The camels withhold their lewd look

First line: Alone here with a stranger

First line: By constancy

First line: Charred mountains that sunset reforested

First line: Saved by forgetting or neglect, aloud

First line: Walking along in this not quite prose way

First line: Through the drowned lands to Vincennes

First line: Down in the Frantic Mountains ”?1952”

First line: In scenery, I like flat country “?1952”

First line: Mountains crowded around on the north “?1952”

First line: You reading this, these trials “?1952”

First line: Girl in the front row who had no mother

First line: Trying to read this land, what is it trying to tell me?

First line: Rushing up to intruders like a dog

First line: Lucky guys have bundles to carry

First line: Where true curve meets curb

First line: Miles of wheat steady on toward June

First line: Here, trying the clouds for color

First line: The plains are my still center

First line: The night my father died the moon shone on the snow

First line: At the flute end of consequences

First line: When I look at this lake from farther away

First line: At noon in the desert I saw a panting lizard

First line: Certain mornings I pool among white rocks

First line: Not the certainty of what anyone says

First line: That cost he read. The little key

First line: Poetry consists in experiencing” (p.of prose)

First line: Anything nearest we must learn to love

First line: The father wants to buy a filling station (story)

First line: By this being too green

First line: The tractor in the corn stubble - town men

First line: What frame of snow and fur kept lost country

First line: Let come lent or what loaned

First line: At a cut bank with vines and little roots holding dirt together

First line: I let my walk be every step

First line: They hear in a pond; they see through a cloud

First line: Deep and cold balance arms late hours

First line: Anvil stopped, at iron rest

First line: Reaches where leaves thread the air

First line: Two buyers make a deal. They know a rule

First line: Two people meet. The sky in winter [11/53]

First line: Earth on its forgotten center

First line: I thought I would ride in the middle with chance

First line: Brick by brick I count the world

First line: Two people meet until the sky in winter

First line: In the high country on the map where a duck sounded

First line: The place they called Lobo

First line: Turning, the chairman held up his palms

First line: There is a division of sight that put choice in your day

First line: Any of you out there that remember me

First line: Being a little stone, I feel the shadow of the great earth

First line: Any of you out there that remember me

First line: The long wood they gave me called stave

First line: Slung wild in a cynical constellation

First line: It was in corners of our selves that the world was falling down

First line: Mornings, I have spells of desire to tell the truth

First line: Oh no, the places going back from roads

First line: Muffled in wool, there came a slow grower -- the code

First line: When ---- was taken to hospital... (story)

First line: In my fifties I will buy a hat

First line: There were cold evenings in depression years

First line: When I was a mule... (story)

First line: The zoo worker who put his baby in one of the cages (story)

First line: Only one thought can be the right thought

First line: Those faint spires are made of stone

First line: I have come back to this land one hundred years ago

First line: Old men carrying flowers from the rose garden (prose)

First line: No moment so rich as the stammering

First line: If there be a town on the blue plain

First line: In the sun, fields waiting

First line: Always treat the world as if it really exists

First line: No moment so rich as in stammering

First line: For twenty years I followed what I could do

First line: When any solid thing extended on out to the edge

First line: Constructive accidents, like people, living on a slope

First line: Turning traitor to everything else

First line: They taste in honey that sour root

First line: At the falls of the river, the decision

First line: Whenever we say rock we stop

First line: You night men, striking your fires in the bush

First line: When they purified the pond the lilies died

First line: That beast we fed on scraps of faith

First line: At noon in the desert I watched a lizard

First line: Deepen, deepen, my gaze; spiral down

First line: Within the wall we become that heard-unseen

First line: Enticed by knowledge we have gone farther into the lion’s mouth

First line: Rain drives flat at one shock on the coast

First line: Racial Memory (page of prose notes)

First line: Because in a storm they stand and wait

First line: Armies of pine and fir on the mountain

First line: Because morning air this fall has a globed sound

First line: Setting a trotline after sundown

First line: In the early morning coming out of sleep

First line: The scene of the country school in Montana (story)

First line: The green country can be bent

First line: At the edge of the river

First line: You came back, back of you miles

First line: Do no good, entrance, exit, all the little

First line: It may be true, but is it about God

First line: The people in that town and the streets

First line: The line the gun hand followed

First line: When they finished the gun

First line: Tripped, the hammering sped, meeting new like a gong

First line: Because, of all the lost

First line: Billy the KId was gone, but the game

First line: It had all been so wastefully green

First line: Things that happen in sensational fiction...

First line: Reckless people are easy to meet

First line: Here it is spring again, etc. (story)

First line: These are my bushes. They live at the sound barrier

First line: Cedars repeat themselves over the scarred ground (draft of “Willa Cather”)

First line: Over the ash-gray grass a thousand miles

First line: Take all the things everyone including Roosevelt did

First line: With nothing but the continent to help me

First line: That thousand snow gushing skyward

First line: Anyone with quiet pace who

First line: Knuckles whiten on plow handle

First line: It is the kind of gray flint our hills offer

First line: Who liefer amble scent more than they say

First line: Over the gold dome of old capitol hollowed

First line: We were chopping fir wood with red colored axes

First line: Acquainted with few horsemen

First line: Into all the north silence

First line: On waking this morning I thought a novel..

First line: The Artist and Validation of His Art “July 53?”

First line: Take their baize regard

First line: The still storm, unmoved lunge

First line: He looked the the map... (story)

First line: We have been correct. 24-in interval

First line: Creeping out at sixty, on the fender birds began to sing

First line: Hushed into flint, crowded into coal

First line: Into the flower of the north

First line: In the bend of any morning

First line: The rabbits in their fur

First line: Before the towrope broke

First line: The Western Cycle (page of prose notes)

First line: Not being Charlemagne I steal

First line: Kansas or any flat state coasting east

First line: In hawthorn a flirt of wing

First line: Be down by the track

First line: Not so cold as night heroes

First line: To avoid the lion charge

First line: The rushes by the river that approved Moses

First line: Fleece and all plain disguise

First line: Veneer and fleece of all my black

First line: Waiting for a sunburst in the walkers

First line: I separate bone sprung to make this bone

First line: Two people met. The sky in winter

First line: Over the hill came horseman, horseman, horseman

First line: Two people meet. The sky in winter

First line: Here it is April again.... (prose)

First line: Being a little stone, I feel the shadow of the great earth (11/53)

First line: It is in corners of our selves that the world is falling

First line: It is in corners of ourselves that the world is falling

First line: We must go back and find a trail on the ground

First line: Being a little stone, I feel the shadow of the great earth

First line: Mine was a Midwest home--you can keep your world

First line: In my fifties I will buy a hat

First line: Ours is a lost curst under swamp land

First line: Whenever I see rock or steel, I stop

First line: Rain drives flat at our shack on the coast

First line: Rain drives flat at our shack on the coast

First line: Ours is a lost curst under swamp land

First line: Whenever I see rock or steel, I stop

First line: Treat the world as if it really existed

First line: At the falls of the river, the decision

First line: They taste in honey that sour root

First line: Make the moment go rich in your stammering

First line: Treat the world as if it really existed

First line: When they factoried Billy’s gun

First line: With only a continent to help me

First line: In the early morning coming out of sleep

First line: Kansas or any flat state coasting east

First line: Because in a storm they stand and wait

First line: The silent place on Main Street where we walked across the sword

First line: A figure like a man down by the river

First line: In the sky city of sleet

First line: Driven through councils of the young

First line: Whatever you called the sun would become suave

First line: Drubbed on the back by Nature

First line: We two, caught by the amber

First line: The bow bent remembers home

First line: Thru Kansas or any flat state coasting east (“53”)

First line: It has been easy for us to see

First line: To know is a devious road

First line: There dwelt in a cave and winding I thought lower

First line: In lamplight of late Street, one turning

First line: This house will hold long strokes of slate wind

First line: The night will sway with fear

First line: Down perfection comes

First line: On TV I see

First line: Yawn of day in tall white houses

First line: Those deeper plows and mile furrows

First line: Finding the nest of the lark

First line: The clod or cloud our plough shears

First line: Putting thru nervous October

First line: The well rising without sound

First line: We came out of a wilderness

First line: It is only by luck the world escaped my trap

First line: Into the daylight I followed a blind man

First line: To avoid the lion charge

First line: The well rising without sound

First line: The music department.easily raises money...

First line: Father said the flowers were buffalo beans

First line: They put the pearl inside the steel

First line: Take longer rays

First line: And this is the still sea we thought would be waves

First line: They cast the seed in the dirt

First line: Counting the secretaries coming out of a building

First line: That man on the island

First line: That man on that island by not being seen

First line: Not the target, he could aim

First line: To what has been sent I have been immune

First line: A man could grow wise by not being seen

First line: To know for sure about oneself

First line: The valiant among us have paths of danger

First line: The valiant among us pause in the darkness

First line: On the park path when people meet

First line: As part of the morning we went thru the open parts of a forest

First line: The world looking for itself

First line: To what has been sent I have been immune

First line: Should you walk along the river

First line: In little puff, in mighty blast

First line: It takes courage to fail

First line: What the mountains are beyond

First line: The still steel, a monument in a park

First line: Back of the stride of the power line

First line: They cast the seed in the dirt

First line: There are eternities behind each other

First line: The birds eat any food put away in the tree

First line: On the bicycle of usual

First line: And there is a small betrayal in the mind

First line: My look at the map

First line: My public fancies to my horror I see

First line: Slew around in spiral hope

First line: Back of the forest and people

First line: There is no rehearsal: this program is now

First line: The bow bent remembers home

First line: The way we smelled Heaven one day in the desert rain

First line: Mother robin teaching birdy how to fly--

First line: A story: people are in a town...

First line: People put feet

First line: Shelter those by daylight

First line: Alarm. Four gongs that shattered

First line: Whatever you called the sun it would become suave [cf. Alarm. Four gongs...]

First line: Only the rejected

First line: When lions have looked their embers

First line: The only good thing left in town,

First line: The way to find out something important

First line: In the way of pleasure

First line: If as a result of immediate results...{prose}

First line: How hard they sing, the sound-blocked and the fair

First line: This old car--runs too fast:...[page of prose]

First line: I wear my shadow,so,

First line: The sun blames Nevada

First line: Come into this country, Pretty Fang, [2 sides]

First line: Come into this country, Pretty Fang,

First line: That grit farm land grain by grain

First line: The least little sound sets the coyotes walking

First line: Our gray-eyed life

First line: Unless the oak will nod

First line: If the world should flare into the night of me

First line: I saw the gulls being gulls

First line: The sun is blaming Nevada

First line: I wear my shadow, so,

First line: Back up from the thermometer land

First line: The sun is blaming Nevada

First line: On campus this morning... [page of prose]

First line: On the turning approving world

First line: They come out their balanced way

First line: Since there must go with kings and other such

First line: In gesture for all the stern land

First line: No pasaron, tete a bull