New Poems -- Eating Mulberries for Breakfast -- World War Two -- Waiting for the End -- Living Without It -- Rainbow -- Fairbanks, Late July -- What He Said -- Babble -- Confrontation -- Surgery -- October -- Dread -- Haywire -- Horseshoes and Hand Grenades -- Let There Be Music -- Driving through the Winnebago Reservation on My Way to Sioux Falls -- Schooling -- South Padre Island, Early Evening -- At the Pantry -- Memory -- Moving -- Over the Years -- Along Highway 14 in Southern Washington -- What the Churchbells Say -- An Old Story -- Learning to Soar -- Low Tide at Oregon's Waikki Beach -- Late Morning, Almost Noon -- Weeding -- Upon Planning to Break My Fast a Day Early -- Now the Juniper -- Arrival -- Tea -- Birdsong -- Newborn -- Silence -- Red Cedar -- Writer in Residence at Sheridan Elementary -- With My Wife at the Super Saver -- Ponderosa -- Singing Just for the Music of It -- Accessories.
Name -- Purple Iris -- Dying to Get by with Everything -- Bringing Up the Rear -- Selected Poems from Alvin Turner as Farmer -- From Uncertain the Final Run to Winter -- Uncertain the Final Run to Winter -- Country Boy -- Cleaning Out My Dead Grandfather's Barn -- Dec. 8, 1941 -- Prime Moving -- LTL -- Town Team -- The Spring House -- Unloneliness Poem -- Selected Poems from loony -- Selected Poems from ludijr -- From Stocker -- Fairport -- Elsie Martin -- Mrs. Wilma Hunt -- Sonny -- Urie -- The Rearranging -- Stocker -- From Cottonwood County -- Beginnings -- New Year's Eve -- Jubilation -- Out-and-Down Pattern -- My Love for All Things Warm and Breathing -- If Only I Can Shake Off This Dream All of the Others Should Follow -- I Don't Like Having a Grasshopper in My Hair -- Daddy (Drunk) Mows the Lawn at Midnight -- Benediction -- Selected Poems from Leaving Town -- From Not Such a Bad Place to Be -- Not Such a Bad Place to Be -- Teenage Halloween -- For My Wife's Father -- Braces -- Returning to Caves.
Thanksgiving -- Final Scenario #6 -- Epitaph for a Grandfather -- From Let the Dance Begin -- Benediction -- My Granddaughter, Age 3, Tells Me the Story of the Wizard of Oz -- For My Brother, Who Has New False Teeth -- Selected Poems from Honeymoon -- Selected Poems from Platte Valley Homestead -- Selected Poems from Houses and Beyond -- From within the First House -- Each Board that Formed the Next House -- I Had Been Chained and Padlocked -- Franklin Walked Off the Deep End -- On a Hot Day after Rain -- Janet Moved Away -- Standing on the Back Porch -- Mother Said She Was Glad Now -- Taking the Milk to Grandmother -- Killing the Swallows -- Rushing the Season -- In the Treehouse with Franklin -- Whatever Is Elevated and Pure, Precisely on Key -- On the Road: Sunday, March 6, 1977 -- From Collecting for the Wichita Beacon -- Collecting for the Wichita Beacon -- Sowing the Whirlwind -- Waiting to Jell -- One of Those -- Cornsilk -- Solitude -- From A Life Like Mine -- Onion Syrup -- The Great Depression -- Christmas 1939.
Sunday Morning -- Prove It -- Black Cat -- Walking the Tracks -- Kicking Leaves -- My Daughter Pregnant -- From Where the Visible Sun Is -- Creation -- Fixing Flats -- Christmas 1940 -- The Louvre -- For Proof -- An Interlude for Morning -- The Day I Pedaled My Girlfriend Betty Lou All the Way Around the Paper Route -- You Have Lived Long Enough -- Undressing by Lamplight -- Easter Sunday -- From Drinking the Tin Cup Dry -- Last Summer and the One Before -- A Red Ryder BB-Gun for Christmas -- George Eat Old Gray Rat at Pappy's House Yesterday -- At Shannon's Creek, Early August -- Drinking with My Father -- Firstborn -- Walking to the Hinky Dinky with my Grandson, Almost 4 -- Looking for Halley's Comet -- Taking the Test -- Watercolor: The Door -- Driving Back to Kansas to Watch a Wedding -- Independent -- Cave -- Drinking the Tin Cup Dry -- From Dragging Sand Creek for Minnows -- Last of the Mohicans -- Running Home -- Jumping Rope -- Driving Back Home in My Wife's Father's Old Chevrolet -- Wildwood, Early Autumn.
Write a Blank-Verse Poem Using Someone Else's Voice, Someone Dead, Someone Who You Believe Was Not Treated Fairly While Alive -- Achilles' Heel -- At Maggie's Pond -- Burning the House Down -- From Going Out, Coming Back -- Dress -- Swallowing the Soap -- Dancing in the Cornfield -- Epiphany -- Odyssey -- Last Day of School -- Jacks -- Fishing with My Two Boys at a Spring-Fed Pond in Kansas -- Outage -- From Burning the Hymnal -- The Color of Dusk -- Threnody -- This Is the Photograph Not Taken -- Back to Kansas -- Going There Sometime -- Legend -- Odyssey -- From Treehouse: New and Selected Poems -- Not Dreaming -- Separations -- The Day the Earthquake Was Scheduled to Happen but Didn't -- Non-Stop Begonias -- On a Porch Swing Swinging -- After the Drunk Crushed My Father -- Treehouse -- Singing Hymns with Unitarians -- A City Waking Up -- From Covenants -- Covenant -- Learning the Drum -- Rainfall -- KTSW, Sunday Morning -- Saturday Night -- Last Visit -- Geese -- Afternoon in October -- Counting the Cows.
Church -- Sustaining the Curse -- From Welcome to Carlos -- Welcome to Carlos -- Stuka -- Home -- Gypsy Rose -- Back Roads -- Balls -- The Great Depression -- Revival -- Reap the Wild Wind -- Quixotic -- Circus -- Limits -- Giddy -- Sand Creek -- Dirt -- Departures -- Pennies -- From Loup River Psalter -- Song -- Flannel -- Bushmill -- Song -- Instrumental -- Requiem -- Catfishing -- Woodshed -- Connections -- Blues -- Selected Poems from Sergeant Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail with Lewis & Clark -- From Fielding Imaginary Grounders -- Learning Chautauqua -- Countries -- Bushes Burning -- For Some Strange Reason -- Covenants -- Walking the Grounds at St. Elizabeth Hospital, DC -- Somewhere in the Vicinity of Ecclesiastes -- The Almost Dead -- Soul -- Remembering Religion -- Brothers -- Desiring Desire -- From Sunrise, Dayglow, Sunset, Moon -- Balsa -- Star of the East -- In a Church Basement Damp from Last Night's Rain -- Sawdust -- Javelin -- Moving -- Living with Others.
Library of No Return -- In the Black Hills Whistling Dixie -- At Hemlock Hollow near Logan, Ohio -- Funeral for an Old Woman -- For My Wife's Mother -- Watching My Granddaughter, 7, Test for Her Purple Belt -- Not Dreaming -- Discoveries -- Shooting the Rabbit -- From Walking the Campus -- Nouns -- November 22, 1963 -- Theater -- Moving On -- August 12, 1992 -- After the Ice Storm -- Connections: A Toast -- From Still Life Moving -- Braids -- Proud -- Flight -- Quest -- Spheres -- Water -- Sleep -- Grass Woman -- Still Life Moving -- From Out of Attica -- Early July -- After the First Good Early-Spring Shower -- Avon Calling -- Titles -- Looking for Scrap Iron at the Village Dump -- Digging -- Distances -- August -- Darkroom -- Saved -- Bits & Pieces -- We Take My Wife's Father Fishing One More Time -- Flying over Chicago -- At the Mayo Clinic -- Daughters -- From In a House Made of Time -- Walking and Looking Down.
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