For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• Once in the 40's
• With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

and The Poetry Foundation

• A Family Turn
• A Human Condition
• A Message from the Wanderer
• A Posy
• A Survey
• A Tentative Welcome to Readers
• Accountability
• Across Kansas
• After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
• After Plotinus
• An Introduction to Literature
• An Oregon Message
• Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
• As Pippa Lilted
• At Earle Birney's School
• At the Bomb Testing Site
• At the Old Place
• At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
• Augustine
• Bess
• Bi-Focal
• Boom Town
• Brother
• By the Escalator
• Chickens the Weasel Killed
• Coming Back
• Communion at Lunch
• Even Now
• Faint Message
• Following
• Footnote
• Found in a Storm
• Gasoline
• Growing Up: Mother
• How I Escaped
• Humanities Lecture
• In a Time of Need
• In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light
• In Fog
• In Fur
• In Medias Res
• In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
• In Sublette's Barn
• In the Deep Channel
• Juke Joint
• Learning a Word While Climbing
• Lines To Stop Talking By
• Looking Across the River
• Meditation
• Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
• Near
• Noticing
• Oak
• On an Island in the San Juans
• On Penitencia Creek
• On Winter Ridge
• One Day in August
• One Home
• One of the Fathers
• Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
• Peace Walk
• Portrait of a Refugee Musician
• Presenting These Pieces
• Priest Lake
• Reaching Out To Turn On a Light
• Report to Crazy Horse
• Resolutions
• Return to Single-Shot
• Sayings from the Northern Ice
• Sending These Messages
• Shepherd
• Stories To Live in the World With
• Subsistence
• Sunday Avenue
• Super Market
• That Weather
• The Bravery of Love
• The Collector
• The Day I Got the Good Idea
• The Day Millicent Found the World
• The Day You Are Reading This
• The Farm on the Great Plains
• The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
• The Guitar by the Chair
• The Magic Mountain
• The Move to California
• The Museum at Tillamook
• The Rescued Year
• The Thought Machine
• The Well Rising
• Things We Did That Meant Something
• Third Street
• This Room When Winter Comes
• This Town: Winter Morning
• Thought, the Pacifist
• Traveling through the Dark
• Twelve Threads
• Two Evenings
• Uncle Bill Visits
• Visions
• Vocation
• Walking Away an Undeclared War
• Walking West
• Watching Her Go
• Watching the Jet Planes Dive
• Weather Report
• What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
• With Neighbors One Afternoon
• Your Life

   

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