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| Foreword, from Can These Bones Live? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Collected Poems, 1953-1977 | |
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| Preface, from Collected Poems, 1953-1977 | |
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| from: Antennas of Silence (1953) | |
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| The Rites | |
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| In Time of Winter | |
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| Honey Out of Lion | |
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| Conspiracy | |
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| Parked Car | |
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| Hospital | |
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| Armistice with Doom | |
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| Survey on the State of the Union | |
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| Etherized Intelligentsia | |
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| Lore of the Real | |
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| The Chase | |
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| The Unhappy Warrior | |
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| Communion | |
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| New Age | |
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| Anecdote of the Wind | |
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| At the Mercy Seat | |
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| The Hurt of the Second Death | |
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| Standard Time, Ithaca | |
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| Faith on Friday | |
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| Food of Love | |
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| Moment in Suburban Summer | |
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| Departure | |
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| Crisis on the Hill | |
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| Vacation Land | |
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| Infidel at the Highest Level | |
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| Pater Noster in Winter | |
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| A Plaint of Flowers | |
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| St. Knud's: Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity | |
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| Peter and John Running | |
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| Last Things | |
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| The Improvement of Prayer | |
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| Childhood Scene Revisiting | |
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| Sweet Killer | |
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| On the Adoption of Sons: An Anniversary | |
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| Child | |
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| Toy Windmill | |
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| Girl Three Years into the World | |
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| Bus to Marienlund | |
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| Chair with Rockers | |
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| Subway Train | |
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| Day In, Day Out | |
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| Surgery Ward, December 8 | |
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| Portraits | |
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| Anti-Drama | |
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| The Change of Seasons | |
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| L'Apres-Midi d'un Homme | |
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| Kite Umbilicus | |
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| News Item: Chimpanzee Escapes from Zoo in Antwerp | |
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| Whan That Aprille, Etcetera | |
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| Salutation | |
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| Logos | |
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| The Word and the Fish | |
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| Poete Manque | |
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| Like Any Road Anywhere (1976) | |
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| The Poem Out on a Night Mission | |
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| The Poem Dresses Up like Love | |
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| The Poem as a Private Persecutor | |
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| The Poem as Baby-Sitter | |
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| Survival against the Poem | |
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| Her Poem | |
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| The Poem Is Showing | |
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| Poem by Movie Camera | |
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| Sleeping on Down | |
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| The Poem Takes a Walk | |
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| Revisiting the Confessional as a Tourist | |
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| Poem Almost in Time for Easter | |
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| The Poem Fails at Michel's, Hairstyling for Men | |
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| Diana at Lakeside | |
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| Organon | |
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| Actaeon to Artemis: In the Afterlife of the Art Gallery | |
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| Undone, Doing | |
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| Evelyn in the April Sun | |
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| A Woman about to Begin | |
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| Priapus at the Adding Machine | |
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| Old-Timer | |
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| Watchman, What of the Night? | |
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| Love Game | |
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| Nearing Winter | |
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| Orchestra | |
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| Mountains | |
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| Suddenly This Left-Handed Life | |
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| Posture | |
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| May Morning | |
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| Hijack | |
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| Views of Our Sphere | |
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| Up Air | |
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| Fall Rain | |
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| Year | |
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| Memoranda: from Agent in the Dark to Central Intelligence | |
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| If Back to Olympus | |
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| Designs for Sleep | |
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| Rainy Day: Jogging Indoors | |
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| Skeptic | |
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| Master of Ceremony | |
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| Lone | |
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| What to Do at the End | |
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| Moment | |
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| Father Familiar | |
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| Day in June | |
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| Light as a Quality of Mercy | |
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| In Pursuit | |
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| Growing into Light | |
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| The Way Down | |
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| Celebrants | |
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| Neighbor: For Twenty Years | |
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| Meeting | |
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| Soon, Like Right Now | |
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| Those Elders of the Great Tradition and the Rest of Us | |
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| Dog Drinking at Night | |
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| The Cricket Sound | |
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| Mail from Home in the Sky | |
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| Nearest of Kin | |
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| To Frank O'Malley (1908-1974) | |
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| Children Lying in the Dazed Heaps of Their Bones | |
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| "A Little Folding of the Hands to Sleep" | |
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| Poem Made Out of Questions | |
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| Narcissus Flowering | |
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| Later Poems (1976-1977) | |
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| Naked Voice | |
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| The Life and Letters | |
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| Neighborhood Electrification | |
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| Things the Angels Desire to Look Into | |
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| Love Song on a Spring Morning | |
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| Counting | |
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| For Elie Wiesel | |
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| Where Roar Is Close the Door | |
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| They Are Wicked | |
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| The Game and the Word | |
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| The Grand Tetons | |
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| Survival Technique | |
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| Neither Swear by Your Head | |
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| Suspended | |
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| Believer | |
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| The Return | |
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| The Doppler Effect | |
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| And Your Old Men Shall Dream with Their Hands | |
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| A Later Day, Another Year: Poems, 1977-1988 | |
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| Entrances Haunted by Exits | |
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| Dialogue at the Door | |
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| New Acquaintance | |
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| Prayer for a Seemly Stance | |
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| Seventy-Fourth Birthday | |
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| At the Kitchen Sink | |
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| How Time Is Kept | |
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| Old Man Looking Ahead | |
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| Journey through the Cloud of Unknowing | |
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| What His Nurse Heard | |
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| To Get the Most out of a Hanging | |
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| Neo-Scholasticism, 1980s | |
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| A Journey of the Mental Traveler | |
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| For Men Only | |
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| The Prowler | |
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| In Bed Alone | |
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| My Two Lives | |
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| The Son of Man | |
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| A High-Toned Old Christian Gentleman | |
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| Genesis 7:27 | |
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| The Night after Sleep | |
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| Games not to be Toyed with | |
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| Behind Home Plate | |
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| At Center Court | |
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| By Firefly to Tokyo and Back | |
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| Translating the Latin | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Metaporn | |
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| Solitaire Lotto | |
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| Natural Relations | |
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| Gardening through the Ages | |
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| Smell of Survival, Long Range | |
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| Birds, Chimneys | |
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| Winter Holiday in Sunshine City | |
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| Mid-Winter Greetings | |
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| Mountain | |
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| Interrogation | |
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| Quandary | |
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| The Twister that Missed Us | |
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| Incident in a Rain of Violence | |
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| Astronomy | |
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| Family Relations | |
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| Tricycle | |
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| Incident in a Long Story | |
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| Watching the Nightly TV New | |
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| Recent Family History | |
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| Love Song in a Minor Key | |
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| Eileen and the Daylilies | |
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| Her Wealth of Shells | |
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| For Eileen on Her Birthday | |
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| Daughter Departing, Arriving | |
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| What Can "Grand" Mean? | |
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| Fellow Travelers | |
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| Time and Again | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Oldest Guest at the Celebration | |
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| Injunction to the Young | |
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| Gerontocrats | |
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| Can These Bones Live? | |
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| The Story Lost in Words | |
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| Surreal and Real | |
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| First Day, or What You Will | |
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| A Still Noise | |
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| When I got out of bed this morning | |
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| I must have become a ghost haunting | |
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| A Blip on the Magnified Computer Picture | |
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| In this once country graveyard | |
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| Don't spend too much grief | |
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| College Yearbook, 1931 | |
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| Close your wings, bright angel! | |
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| September Afternoon | |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk | |
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| "Can These Bones Live?" | |
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| Old Man Lighting His Pipe | |
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| Memorial Day | |
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| Christmas, Year after Year | |
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| Impasse | |
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| When I woke up this morning | |
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| A Summer Solstice Long before Now | |
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| Trickle Up? | |
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| His Local Habitation without a Name | |
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| A Brief Story of Time, Outside and In | |
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| July 4, 1991 | |
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| An Arbor Day Anniversary | |
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| At night it is her dreams | |
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| Mother's Day Greeting | |
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| After Fifty-Seven Years Together | |
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| An Affair | |
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| The Scandal of the Rainbows | |
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| Early Resources | |
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| At the Beach | |
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| A Stranger, Coming and Going | |
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| Episode: July, 1920 | |
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| Rites of Passage | |
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| How History Is Made | |
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| The Gloomy Corner | |
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| Must I ask of every terror | |
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| Waiting for a Twitch of Prophesy | |
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| Aristotle in December | |
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| Higher Mathematics | |
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| Any Questions? | |
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| Now after eighty years of life | |
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| Last Chance | |
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| If, after eighty-four years, you run out | |
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| Soon after Nightfall | |
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| The Spell | |
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| A fool of the late autumn night | |
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| Let me assume some far-off | |
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| Birthday | |
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| Since I've lost some of the hungers I once | |
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| Now I Lay Me | |
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| How humble our history is! | |
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| Final Exam | |
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| Quiz Show | |
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| Twilight | |
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| "Do Not Go Gentle" | |