First line: When this you feel

First line: If you have sought approval...

First line: Stars, the cold minorities

First line: Passed Sacajawea’s grave

First line: In cafe at Rawlins

First line: Dubois is in the Wind River canyon

First line: North of Laramie

First line: A man just retired (story)

First line: There’s the pause

First line: In all moose-herd mistakes

First line: This is my cave - our solid world

First line: In green hollows of black woods

First line: Summer is many, and the world

First line: There was an earth

First line: In the drowning bobcat

First line: Trees just growing

First line: The grass linked north of Laramie

First line: I followed you like still-day smoke

First line: Beside the stones of the foothills

First line: The wind that came thru that still day

First line: Only by watching the vigor

First line: I felt this tree fear

First line: I am reading Wm. Wordsworth

First line: Watchers on the shore, where are we bound?

First line: Some pose their hope on pinnacles

First line: Out of all this rock, ice, trees

First line: Waiting on the shore the trees were tall

First line: Think of the farthest deer hesitating

First line: On covert paths at night the deer

First line: p.227 bottom...

First line: Some autumn day the wind will swirl these trees

First line: We must always be on our guard

First line: Read After the Lost Generation

First line: Strawberry Lake

First line: The kids all delight in the littlest things

First line: At Banff there is a RCMP man

First line: In the country of the twelve peaks

First line: Going to turn, outward, alone

First line: Those who indicted her as vain, selfish, etc.

First line: Barbara: ‘Member that Indian

First line: It settles to be pride. Not just hers - ours

First line: My parents were supposed to meet

First line: We should give it away, like a breath

First line: They approach, odd times, any

First line: Letter to Dorothy...

First line: It will happen again, the long

First line: Every picture has us in it

First line: In poetry writing...

First line: They filmed a woman falling from a bridge

First line: No house can last, no house

First line: Bare trees tell the wind

First line: What kind of sunlight would you have?

First line: Announcements rang over the afternoon

First line: I met classes...

First line: We come near, lose, go on.

First line: In the sandhills we climb

First line: Doves give summer to this town

First line: Because it is May, everything

First line: Some of you words that follow me

First line: Whatever our purpose, we are to look down

First line: Where I live the streaming windows

First line: Clock, I take it all back

First line: Many things brought me here. I’m

First line: On the floor when the sun found it

First line: Once you look up this place becomes

First line: Some of you words that follow me

First line: When God watches you walk, you are

First line: As the living pass, they bow

First line: As we passed the living, they bowed

First line: Sudden leaves have many a

First line: Alone, with a life, one move then

First line: It was the storm that was lost

First line: When my sight follows tree shadow

First line: In the afternoon where people waited

First line: We do little these days, but the leaves

First line: Torn when summer came

First line: Yes grass grows here. It recognizes

First line: While we built our house we felt

First line: Hand open along the wall, we breathlessly

First line: As often as gravel, you told me

First line: Please don’t ask me: an appeal

First line: Close to flame where we live, a flutter

First line: Some day for some, they will turn and

First line: Something will happen. You hold

First line: Remember Walt’s tractor was a Cadillac

First line: Some can hope you will remember them

First line: Do you remember that big, sharp, picture?

First line: Those rays of the sun that chose me

First line: This world I have - not various

First line: Once, this fence held up these vines

First line: Hard to believe, but nothing could be more careful

First line: What was withheld, not physical...

First line: And we realize...

First line: Every night stops, quiet in every

First line: At noon we started through the trees

First line: It came up to the door, and I hurried

First line: This is for my father, who was good to me

First line: Back of the roof all the gray meoning sky

First line: The shadow of the pen is writing

First line: The meadow receives all. No ambition

First line: No, not on this river, and

First line: Something came through town every day

First line: Reading Wittgenstein that intellectual catnip

First line: Please take what you like of all

First line: Only close to the plane, and folded

First line: Now do you hear us?

First line: Every word had quotes around it, in your town

First line: Through many doors (but I go through doors

First line: Through many doors it’s been - through

First line: Why does the face move as it passes along

First line: When evening had flowed betwen houses

First line: Now do you hear us?

First line: Here is the compartment of truth

First line: It is there again, whatever

First line: It clouded up

First line: I knew a root once, found water

First line: The moon has dropped back this morning, half

First line: What is woe? Along the Crystal Fork

First line: Whatever I said that you didn’t like

First line: down in the gravel...

First line: The octopus wants to understand. It prowls

First line: Did you happen to notice this morning

First line: At Mark and Anna

First line: Except that it move it not be

First line: All evening the evening flowed past on the porch

First line: I felt evening flow past outside. We

First line: Approaching the house, I began to recite

First line: Prisoner in this bone bag, sing, adjust

First line: More agile than they are, I lumber past

First line: When rain -its weariness - comes

First line: Many fled. Some stayed. A few

First line: Fireflies in the tangled grass along the cemetery

First line: Creeping at dusk through the long

First line: Little pieces of gold wash down

First line: Please help me know it happened

First line: Be leery of...

First line: Now that the table waits and a chair

First line: Remember that word we tramped in the snow

First line: Beginning like water I hurry

First line: Half of what you say is “No.”

First line: Through the pillow, deep, still

First line: We came from nothing. We are the beginning

First line: Someone from the real government will speak

First line: Anything that came, you could see

First line: Early, immediate from the ground, wild

First line: We would get a map of our farm as big

First line: What if I tell you a river? And on it

First line: The world has a tall roof. Wind

First line: Music explores to discover moments of silence.

First line: At a party they stop, clogging doors, leaning

First line: There were large quiet holes in the music

First line: They said snow. It’s clear. So different

First line: My room has light, and I

First line: We found spring again. You live

First line: Roll far, lean far, return by

First line: We face outward, nerved up to discover

First line: They have Chinaberry trees here

First line: Bodarc, “they call us, “osage orange’

First line: They put Greek marble columns by the administration

First line: Often alone through a window you

First line: You don’t sing now. You don’t

First line: Some of the villains wave guns. They will

First line: It was the workers taught me—how

First line: Headlight, find a new road. Road,

First line: You have heard the story

First line: You climb a hillside and find a cave

First line: A bird with a shrill kraking cry

First line: A press, a song, a place where

First line: Suddenly be the sun; be over

First line: On a hill in Missouri a little white dog

First line: Shoes the color of dust find their way past

First line: Never come back, Nicholas, with your

First line: Comforts they gave, to be warm, to eat

First line: We had it awhile. Earth went away. My feet

First line: Monuments last too long. Her voice brought

First line: A big oak branch crashed near

First line: Even in the mountains, an ant is only

First line: At first light from sheer cliffs on the mountain

First line: Trees on the mountain tell where water is

First line: In the alley by the royal motel at dawn

First line: Mornings we see our breath. Weeds

First line: This earth we are riding

First line: It spreads over some hills, the gym

First line: As the sun went down an arrow of light

First line: Lights have come often for me, in winter

First line: Its evening wings the heron spread

First line: Heavy down where death lives, the bulls of Deep Springs

First line: A skunk, or some good plant that knows

First line: Though they are slow, the hills do move and are moving

First line: Her name like a mint in my mouth

First line: Those hills north of town that will come

First line: Where storms come from, those lightning fused

First line: At Lakin the lake is gone, a field now

First line: It is easy for vines—they ride with time

First line: Becoming someone else for awhile

First line: We kept making the inside. Again

First line: No one comes out of the crowd or through

First line: A light climbed a tree. It stayed there

First line: Our fire made a room in the dark

First line: My hope is to find a house, to know

First line: It is far through the treas, and ways

First line: What the sun sees when clouds go away

First line: The hills only wait. All they know is

First line: I wouldn’t have any stars, only trees

First line: Shut the day out. Stop

First line: On the shelves the library books wait to be

First line: Lorene, we thought she’d be home, but

First line: In the world, when I was there, all things

First line: My mother began reaching toward me. This was because

First line: The other people, their radar all turned

First line: Once when the waves were talking, one said

First line: By little traces a river begins. By

First line: When the sun found you, and your shadow ran

First line: Because of how things are, we’ll go

First line: It was all right because the trees

First line: They let you run on this road—you are

First line: Keeping a body brings trouble. You have to

First line: Birds are part of the sun, powered

First line: Away where your choices faded

First line: Behind the desk you have a story: with luck

First line: This day is numbered. It falls

First line: Many branches are spread against the sky

First line: A person begins at one end of a path

First line: This time what they did was

First line: Manacled on in the cold morning, my watch

First line: This funeral celebrates Curt Pang

First line: One bird call outside the house, then

First line: First, ask, “What illness, abiding

First line: The language...

First line: Others didn’t care, but the storm outside

First line: Maybe for you it is different, easy anger

First line: It is not your fault that The Lilliwaup and

First line: A wave will tease till a stone

First line: How can you be alone?—the sky

First line: Scribbled in dust, wound under grass

First line: When the speaker’s eloquence

First line: When Archimedes was young

First line: Hardly any are straight

First line: West wind, fresh from the sea

First line: Finally the clouds have come

First line: Today the significances...

First line: A boy made of cement and carrying a book

First line: My own country is called early morning

First line: In the wandering currents of chance

First line: That bush with light green leaves

First line: In old times here the hills moved

First line: My boots with big toes separate help me

First line: A person that no one knew came walking

First line: The best of them are gone. We don’t

First line: If you encounter a lady by the forard rail

First line: 13-Oct-84

First line: At Al’s Cafe in Westley we will turn

First line: I followed the airport limousine into a drive

First line: They follow their craeers wherever a necessary

First line: Daylight begins to accumulate behind the blind

First line: Out here, like you, we read this legend

First line: Someone was walking in shadows

First line: Her country was invaded and what she owned

First line: A moody tree outside our window

First line: What green there was came in the fall

First line: Carefully, even though it is safe, edge

First line: We have each other to learn from

First line: At midnight I heard the refrigerator heart

First line: Alcoves and closets allow us beyond

First line: Look into their eyes—they are hiding

First line: After a fine poplar takes over

First line: Nature leaves a little space—they crowd

First line: Old Mrs Tanaka trudges by. Her children

First line: What slid, a boulder, stopped ahead

First line: My first earthquake only rippled

First line: My broken ---- has discovered that country

First line: It stays, that century. It peeled from the ground

First line: Whatever light the fine gray sky

First line: This place will extend your life. Live

First line: Call in the shapes now

First line: We have not considered how exact

First line: The storm is coming because

First line: At night the hills depart; they wander

First line: This morning’s air has Utah on its breath

First line: Grass asserts its green wherever the pavement

First line: A tiny dog dances to celebrate

First line: In their order, breakers advance, five

First line: They found a few tracks half-hidden by leaves

First line: Far down a road where nobody walks

First line: A rock, they say, is only a shadow

First line: Often when the moon goes by shuddering

First line: After each funeral - at first they looked up through the ground

First line: The way to climb a stair is—respect

First line: Late when the moon begins that smooth

First line: To impress the world, its air, its

First line: Parallel to our world, or hidden from us or muffled

First line: Laramie floats unmoving

First line: You would think that music might wake

First line: These days, a crumb on the floor

First line: The forest waits. It will retreat

First line: That year, that summer, that vacation

First line: Patriotism and good food of course

First line: The eagle above the libraryt gapes its permanent

First line: At thirteen my disguise became permanent, except

First line: For everyone, I’m a substitute

First line: When a goat reads a book, the book is gone

First line: Near, it’s light on the hill, then a wide

First line: You may carry this day folded all your life

First line: This book...

First line: On the plane...

First line: Our hotel room...

First line: Yesterday Bill Elliott...

First line: From Yokohama harbor ancestors

First line: Under a new lens...

First line: My lecture tomorrow...

First line: Improvements in mechanical things in Japan...

First line: Today we go...

First line: This is my skull.

First line: Yujin is due...

First line: [Yesterday] Yori and I translated...

First line: good health...

First line: We went ... [yesterday]... to a museum—Ainu history, pioneer history of Hokkaido

First line: [Yesterday] translated...

First line: The father of a student...

First line: Yori and I exchange...

First line: Today at 9...

First line: Anti-War in the USA: 1930s & 1940s

First line: Yujin comes home...

First line: Yaguchis, Dorothy...

First line: 8: Yujin...

First line: 11: Dorothy...

First line: If you meet a bear don’t move; keep

First line: A bell, a stretch of sand, four crows

First line: From Hokusai Gakuin...

First line: Our room...

First line: Every soldier, each with a rifle and a shadow

First line: Does anything move this morning in the cold?

First line: At Wells College..

First line: Only one turn in the gyre and you’re

First line: All this color, smothered by summer

First line: Geese discover how the air divides

First line: Through the windshiled billboards rushed

First line: All my window, all my door, wide

First line: The air divides. A flock tilts

First line: Light in Idaho toward evening decides

First line: Slowly the light relinquishes Idaho

First line: After Idaho, farmhouses have

First line: ...with surprising...

First line: ...of thought...

First line: ...as those addicted...

First line: Alder, elm, ash, maple, willow

First line: A stale air hovers over the university

First line: Dream:A person...

First line: Ted Talley...

First line: Andrew Dillon...

First line: From U of N Florida

First line: Grand Canyon City

First line: In the desert, whatever is green follows

First line: Out of the light but looking in

First line: Abernathy was there, Andrew Young

First line: Long reaches, doglegs on the river

First line: It shocks even yet, that plunge

First line: Just because it isn’t there

First line: Not just people

First line: ...those muskrats determined to know

First line: A wide hat comes in, a bald head

First line: Today who are you? Yesterday

First line: Before light you hear it, the slow

First line: You know how it is most of

First line: And even yet sometimes you meet

First line: The Red River is red as it scours north

First line: Kansas. Horizon and foreground

First line: Carrie Nation, for instance, like a farmer drove

First line: The Grays gave...

First line: At reading:...

First line: At Hongkong Airport

First line: When you’re away and the sun

First line: Little books inside their shadows trundle

First line: Because we are slow enough, time

First line: The old suitcase hangs on the shelf and almost

First line: They wear so many sequins that

First line: It goes like this—they discover tracks

First line: It went like this: they discovered some tracks

First line: The arbitrary parts of a day - inside

First line: Comanches assumed that Buffalo Gap

First line: Thunder goes out and comes back

First line: Rain so gray it opened the sky

First line: Nightfall bent itself carefully over

First line: Voices cyring in the jungle weave

First line: The air hangs in quiet curtains

First line: Tributaries avoid this water. All the way

First line: Something outside my window in the dark

First line: Discussion...

First line: At Banff

First line: Clouds claim dawn before we do

First line: Called by that valley only the world

First line: Deep grooves carve all over where glacier rivers

First line: When you say that to me, before knowing

First line: It was fearful, paying close attention to

First line: These are words through windows

First line: Words come forward out of the stone

First line: The years 1914-1986 (in case these numbers

First line: Each person has a character that could

First line: What existed will be gone, spirited

First line: In the room where they like each other

First line: A player pretends. A citizen remains

First line: You are doing well, old man, old

First line: In valleys too high for summer, nobody

First line: Not the news, but the olds is what

First line: Someone walks toward the mirror

First line: What the other people are feeling

First line: You stand and fall your life, your power

First line: Under Mesa Avenue a culvert, a great

First line: In Flight...

First line: History is mostly six inches high, you see

First line: A red X on our door faded but still

First line: Through the slow hours they give music, a dim light

First line: At first he looked the same, balanced

First line: They strike a chord but nobody sings

First line: They lean this country outside but hold it

First line: A few times in your life, climbing a stair

First line: Today is last...

First line: Most writing workshops...

First line: Something beyond us bends in the evening

First line: Past farms...

First line: At San Jose the taste of regret rose in my throat

First line: On earth on a certain time a tremor

First line: A sharp-shin hawk studies bird watchers

First line: A few pages lift and go forth, tattered and scorched

First line: Not even caring who your parents were

First line: Faint, scurrying rivers of mist

First line: This is the future they sacrificed for

First line: Wove so far stars taught the hands

First line: That place on the lawn in early fog may be

First line: Whatever makes a shadow says

First line: My time woven too close, I came

First line: Joe...

First line: Dream: Two men...

First line: What I want to know is what did I do or

First line: It will be the days and the sound of the sewing

First line: Somebody else told Goldy about

First line: Next time what I’d do is look at

First line: I got off on the scenes...

First line: For the workshop:

First line: Running one is immediately poor

First line: What did you hear when you passed the woods?

First line: Where I ran through the forest in the early morning

First line: Late, after sunlight, after

First line: It comes to you that a fire

First line: In the swirl of all we meet

First line: Eye of earth closes, evening

First line: Two notes, mild, repeated calls

First line: Years, and someone comes back. Little pieces

First line: Someone named Canal talked about a bear

First line: Take rivers or mountains - they go on easy

First line: Green time dreams endlessly out of

First line: Evening leads out past palms that lean

First line: A voice wanders in. It avoids the scattered

First line: Palm trees wait while history comes, a wind

First line: Whatever is coming toward us begins to spell

First line: This time low to the floor and sniffing

First line: We four birds are flying around

First line: Last night birthday...

First line: Reading mss...

First line: A color is missing. They ask me

First line: Beyond the cold wrists of the aspen

First line: A Priest of the Imagination

First line: Momentous events flow around us

First line: Dear Basia...

First line: From cold, and when the trees are shaking

First line: Waves, the way to lift, the way to descend

First line: At early dark when the world was younger

First line: They took the water from the river for awhile

First line: The house where you lived, its overwhelming

First line: On the curves...

First line: Any sun that comes, even one not ours

First line: In my steps across the prairies meadowlarks

First line: At Sylvia...

First line: One part of the earth yielded to light

First line: Studying their shadows, these buildings pose

First line: Intentions have side effects...

First line: How still it is here, even the sea

First line: When did the real time end? A gull

First line: The short ones look up. They have little trouble

First line: They killed some of us, we killed

First line: Who sang, that morning?

First line: Bringing their faces to make a picture

First line: Serene,” the dove says, “Is my name