New Collected Poems (33 page)

From the union of power and money,
326

Gathering, The
188

Gift of Gravity, The
295

Give It Time
374

Goods
231

Grace
79

Grandmother, The
156

Green and White
12

Grief
246

Growing weather; enough rain
;
151

Guest, The
27

Handing Down, The
40

Having begun in public anonymity
356

Having danced until nearly
277

Having lived long in time,
341

Having once put his hand into the ground,
136

He comes along the street, singing
22

Head like a big
358

Her fate seizes her and brings her
170

Her First Calf
170

Heron, The
157

Hidden Singer, The
241

His enemy, the universe, surrounds him nightly with stars
18

His memories lived in the place
129

History
201

Homecoming, A
189

Horseback on Sunday morning,
180

Horses
262

How exactly good it is
65

How fine to have a radio
350

How hard it is for me, who live
81

How joyful to be together, alone
315

How much poison are you willing
375

How to Be a Poet
354

However just and anxious I have been,
133

Hunting them a man must sweat, bear
237

I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my
139

I am oppressed by all the room taken up by the dead,
118

I began to be followed by a voice saying:
134

I came out to the barn lot
231

I come to it again
236

I come to the fear of love
234

I dream an inescapable dream
72

I dream of you walking at night along the streams
167

I dreamed of my father when he was old
.
342

I employ the blind mandolin player
21

I go in under foliage
303

I have been spared another day
111

I have taken in the light
169

I knew her when I saw her
316

I leave behind even
368

I love to lie down weary
120

I made an opening
186

I never have denied
320

I owned a slope full of stones.
116

I part the out thrusting branches
237

I see you down there, white-haired
346

I stood and heard the steps of the city
297

I tell my love in rhyme
194

I think of us lying asleep,
28

I think therefore
357

I was home alone. He came
334

I was walking in a dark valley
289

I was your rebellious son,
319

I will wait here in the fields
229

I would have each couple turn,
299

If you imagine
347

Imagination
332

In a Country Once Forested
345

In a country without saints or shrines
119

In a dream I go
349

In a dream I meet
238

In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams
317

In a time that breaks
80

In Art Rowanberry's barn, where Art's death
351

In Art Rowanberry's Barn
351

In Extremis: Poems about My Father
334

In ignorance of the source, our want
286

In January cold, the year's short light,
308

In Memory: Stuart Egnal
77

In my line of paperwork
247

In Rain
303

In the April rain I climbed up to drink
154

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,
122

In the dusk of the river, the wind
70

In the empty lot —a place
23

In the evening there were flocks of nighthawks
158

In the great circle, dancing in
301

In the mating of trees,
179

In the place that is my own place, whose earth
73

In the stilled place that once was a road going down
117

In the town's graveyard the oldest plot now frees itself
74

In this woman the earth speaks.
141

In This World
128

Independence Day
132

Inlet, The
349

It is a day of the earth's renewing without any man's doings or
120

It is called moneywort
363

It is no longer necessary to sleep
13

“. . . it is not too soon to provide by every
177

It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people.
A
148

It's the immemorial feeling
231

Jason Needly found his father, old Ab, at work
380

July,
1773
253

June Wind
347

Kentucky River Junction
171

Late in the night I pay
147

Law That Marries All Things, The
284

Leader, The
358

Let him escape hospital and doctor,
55

Let me be plain with you, dear reader.
359

Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the
230

Let Us Pledge
322

Let us pledge allegiance to the flag,
322

Letter
288

Letter (to Ed McClanahan), A
369

Letter (to Ernest J. Gaines), A
373

Letter (to Hayden Carruth), A
372

Letter (to my brother), A
371

Life is your privilege, not your belonging.
238

Light and wind are running
347

Like a room, the clear stanza
19

Like a tide it comes in,
175

Like Snow
367

Lilies, The
132

Listen!
350

Long Hunter, The
196

Look It Over
368

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
173

Love, all day there has been at the edge of my mind
111

Lover's Song, A
323

Lysimachia Nummularia
363

Mad Farmer in the City, The
142

Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment, The
177

Mad Farmer Revolution, The
137

Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union, The
326

Mad Farmer's Love Song, The
189

Make a place to sit down.
354

Man Born to Farming, The
115

Man Walking and Singing, A
13

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
173

March 22, 1968
123

March Snow
68

Marriage
81

Marriage Song, A
308

Marriage, an Elegy, A
175

May Song
24

Meadow, The
74

Meditation in the Spring Rain
154

Meeting, A
238

Men Untrained to Comfort
380

Millennium, The
347

Morning's News, The
124

Music, A
21

Must another poor body, brought
313

My gentle hill, I rest
291

My Great-Grandfather's Slaves
61

My old friend tells us how the country changed:
310

My old friend, the owner
26

Necessity of Faith, The
242

New Roof, The
128

Noguchi Fountain
332

Nothing is simple,
251

Now constantly there is sound,
63

Now that you have gone
251

Now the old ways that have brought us
183

Observance
6

October 10
63

Old Elm Tree by the River, The
165

On a Theme of Chaucer
320

On the Hill Late at Night
129

On the housetop, the floor of the boundless
128

On the Theory of the Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe
367

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
323

One faith is bondage. Two
189

One of Us
313

Ongoing Holy War Against Evil, The
358

O Thou, far off and here, whole and broken,
242

Our Children, Coming of Age
301

Over the Edge
381

O when the world's at peace
189

Paradise might have appeared here,
17

Parting, A
312

Passed through the dark wall,
196

Passing the Strait
300

Passing Thought, A
357

Peace of Wild Things, The
79

Plan, The
26

Planting Crocuses
186

Planting Trees
179

Planting trees early in the spring,
252

Poem
166

Poem for J.
195

Poem of Thanks, A
111

Porch over the River, The
70

Praise
129

Praise, A
129

Prayer after Eating
169

Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer
148

Purification, A
233

Questionnaire
375

Rain
120

Raindrops on the tin roof.
232

Reassurer, The
321

Recognition, The
185

Record, The
310

Rejected Husband, The
348

Requiem
267

Returning
289

Ripening
243

Rising
277

River Bridged and Forgot, The
292

Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer, The
151

Seeds, The
130

September 2, 1969
158

Setting Out
286

Seventeen seventy one
253

Seventeen Years
235

Seventy Years
357

Shrugging in the flight of its leaves,
165

Silence, The
127

Sits level,
332

Sleep
120

Slip, The
261

Snake, The
64

Some Further Words
359

Somehow it has all
176

Sometimes hidden from me
314

Song
194

Song (1)
286

Song (2)
291

Song (3)
297

Song (4)
302

Song in a Year of Catastrophe
134

Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall, A
176

Sorrel Filly, The
160

Sowing
117

Sparrow
20

Speech to the Garden Club of America, A
377

Spell the spiel of cause and effect,
307

Spring
332

Springs, The
119

Standing Ground, A
133

Star, The
240

Stay Home
229

Stone
346

Stones, The
116

Stop the killing, or
358

Storm, The
333

Strait, The
282

Supplanting, The
117

Suppose we did our work
367

Sycamore, The
73

Terrors are to come. The earth
66

Testament
190

Thank you. I'm glad to know we're friends, of course
;
377

The cloud is free only
284

The crops were made, the leaves
201

The dogs of indecision
193

The dust motes float
345

The ears stung with cold
69

The field mouse flickers
204

The first man who whistled
250

The first mosquito:
376

The fowls speak and sing, settling for the night.
122

The god of the river leans
6

The gods are less
241

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming,
115

The hand is risen from the earth,
118

The hill pasture, an open place among the trees,
128

The hook of adrenaline shoves
182

The land is an ark, full of things waiting.
126

The leveling of the water, its increase
67

The longer we are together
243