Flying at night: poems 1965-1985

Sure signs: Selecting a reader

First snow

An old photograph

The constellation Orion

The salesman

Old soldiers' home

Self-portrait at thirty-nine

Christmas Eve

Visiting mountains

The leaky faucet

A frozen stream

Living near the rehabilitation home

Late February

A drive in the country

Spring plowing

Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen

Sure signs

A summer night

In a country cemetery in Iowa

The man with the hearing aid

The very old

Walking beside a creek

Book club

At the end of the weekend

Uncle Adler

In the corners of fields

How to make rhubarb wine

Late lights in Minnesota

The afterlife

A widow

So this is Nebraska

Fort Robinson

How to foretell a change in the weather

Snow fence

In an old apple orchard

An empty place

After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet

The grandfather cap

Shooting a farmhouse

Beer bottle

Sleeping cat

North of Alliance

Late September

Carrie

For a friend

Grandfather

Looking for you, Barbara

Pocket poem

Moles

Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93

Advice

After my grandmother's funeral

A hot night in wheat country

Five P.M

Abandoned farmhouse

The blind always come as such a surprise

Furnace

West window

Boarding house

A letter from Aunt Belle

At the bait stand

The tattooed lady

A death at the office

There is always a little wind

The Widow Lester

Houses at the edge of town

The old woman

A place in Kansas

Tom Ball's barn

My grandfather dying

The Red Wing Church

Highway 30

Birthday

The failed suicide

The goldfish floats to the top of his life

They had torn off my facey, 1962

Tillage marks

A child's grave marker

Father

At midnight

Central

The fan in the window

Myrtle

Daddy longlegs

Good-bye

The giant slide

A roadside shrine in Kansas

Decoration day

A monday in May

A buffalo skull

Laundry

The mouse

Ladder

Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska

A patch of sunlight

Carp

At the center

A sunset

The ride

At nightfall

At the office early

Cleaning a bass

An empty shotgun shell

A quarter moon just before dawn

A letter

Latvian neighborhood

The Voyager II satellite

The witness

As the President spoke

The pitch

The sigh

The onion woman

Hobo jungle

An August night

The urine specimen

Geronimo's mirror

Porch swing in September.