• As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor
• Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium
• In Fear of Harvests
• Three Stanzas From Goethe
• Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
• The Jewel
• In the Face of Hatred
• Fear Is What Quickens Me
• A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Cully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour
• Stages on a Journey Westward
• How My Fever Left
• Miners
• In Ohio
• Two Poems About President Harding
• Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959
• In Memory of a Spanish Poet
• The Undermining of the Defense Economy
• Twilights
• Two Hangovers
• Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me
• Two Horses Playing in the Orchard
• By a Lake in Minnesota
• Beginning
• From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower
• March
• Trying to Pray
• Two Spring Charms
• Spring Images
• Arriving in the Country Again
• In the Cold House
• Snowstorm in the Midwest
• Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960
• American Wedding
• A Prayer to Escape From the Market Place
• Rain
• Today I Was Happy, So I Made this Poem
• Mary Bly
• To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota
• I Was Afraid of Dying
• A Blessing
• Milkweed
• A Dream of Burial