Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk

My mother saw the green tree toad on the window sill her first one since she was young. We saw it breathe

Ten thousand women and I the only one in boots Life’s dance:

Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? Fourteen washrags, Ed Van Ess? Must be going to give em to the church, I guess. He drinks, you know. The day we m…

The chemist creates the brazen approximation: Life Thy will be done

Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people

Keen and lovely man moved as in a… to be considerate in lighted, glas… almost outdoor office. Business wasn’t all he knew. He knew music,… Had a heart. “With eyes like your…

You are my friend— you bring me peaches and the high bush cranberry you carry my fishpole

Old Mother turns blue and from us… “Don’t let my head drop to the ear… I’m blind and deaf.” Death from t… a thimble in her purse. “It’s a long day since last night.

He lived—childhood summers thru bare feet then years of money’s lack and heat beside the river—out of flood

And the place was water Fish fowl flood

In the great snowfall before the b… colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemp… along this road I worked the print shop

My friend tree I sawed you down but I must attend an older friend the sun

I married in the world’s black night for warmth if not repose. At the close—