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Early Morning in Your Room | |
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The Shocks We Put Our Pitchforks Into | |
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Why We Don't Die | |
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Hawthorne and the Elephant | |
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The Old Woman Frying Perch | |
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Conversation with the Soul | |
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He Wanted to Live His Life Over | |
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The Glimpse of Something in the Oven | |
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Bad People | |
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Things to Think | |
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Two Ways to Write Poems | |
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The Barn at Elabuga | |
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The Russian | |
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Some Men Find It Hard to Finish Sentences | |
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Visiting the Eighty-Five-Year-Old Poet | |
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All These Stories | |
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The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog | |
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Reading in a Boat | |
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Waking on the Farm | |
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When Threshing Time Ends | |
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A Family Photograph, Sunday Morning, 1940 | |
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A Farm in Western Minnesota | |
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For a Childhood Friend, Marie | |
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What the Animals Paid | |
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The Bear and the Man | |
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When My Dead Father Called | |
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The Green Cookstove | |
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The Playful Deeds of the Wind | |
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It Is So Easy to Give In | |
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Wanting More Applause at a Conference | |
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Making Smoke | |
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Thinking About Old Jobs | |
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Conversation with a Monster | |
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The Black Figure Below the Boat | |
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The Man Who Didn't Know What Was His | |
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The Mouse | |
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The Storm | |
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The Yellow Dot | |
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It's As If Someone Else Is with Me | |
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A Week of Poems at Bennington | |
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The Dog's Ears | |
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When the Cat Stole the Milk | |
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Being Happy All Night | |
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The Widowed Friend | |
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We Only Say That | |
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Wounding Others | |
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What the Buttocks Think | |
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What Bill Stafford Was Like | |
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A Poem Is Some Remembering | |
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Wallace Stevens and Mozart | |
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Rethinking Wallace Stevens | |
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Tasting Heaven | |
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Wallace Stevens in the Fourth Grade | |
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The Waltz | |
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The Neurons Who Watch Birds | |
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A Question the Bundle Had | |
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Seeing the Eclipse in Maine | |
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Clothespins | |
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The Face in the Toyota | |
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The Scandal | |
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Looking at the Stars | |
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After a Friend's Death | |
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The Parcel | |
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My Doubts on Going to Visit a New Friend | |
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One Source of Bad Information | |
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Thoughts | |
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The Grandparent and the Granddaughter | |
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The Ocean Rising and Falling | |
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Ocean Rain and Music | |
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Looking at Aging Faces | |
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November | |
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Three-Day Fall Rain | |
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Winter Afternoon by the Lake | |
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Isaac Bashevis and Pasternak | |
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People Like Us | |
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A Christmas Poem | |
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Reading Silence in the Snowy Fields | |
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Words the Dreamer Spoke to My Father in Maine | |
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Visiting Sand Island | |
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A Poem for Giambattista Vico Written by the Pacific | |
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For Ruth | |
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A Conversation with a Mouse | |