Contents
First Practice (1969)
First Practice
Wean Poem
Edward
Letter to a Substitute Teacher
Szostak
The Shy Roofer
Poems
My Coed Wife
To My Daughter
For Judy
Digging for Indians (1971)
Geisha
Harold Fogel Could Be Anywhere
Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo, Miss Beech
The Farm
The Girl in the Red Convertible
Mark Only One Circle
Rustling a Hog
My Mother Writes...
Heart Attack
Digging for Indians
Meeting the Reincarnation Analyst
8/22/38-8/22/68
The Last Monarch of the Season
Nails (1975)
The House on Buder Street
After World War II
Around the Kitchen Table
Nails
They Have Turned the Church Where I Ate God
Prayer for My Father
Passion Play
The Life of the Wolf
The Man and the Goshawk
Burn-Out
Xmas
Meeting My Best Friend from the Eighth Grade
Around the Horn
That Summer
Kneeling in the Snow
The Runner (1978)
My Father After Work
The Runner
Johann Gaertner (1793-1887)
Today They Are Roasting Rocky Norse
When the Retarded Swim
Letters from Vicksburg
The Page Turner
4th Base
The High-Class Bananas
Life & Death in Skokie
Statistics
Last Articles
Toads in the Greenhouse
Poem
New Poems
Blue Like the Heavens
The Porch
In the Beginning
Always in Late Summer Now, in the City
The Day Before Thanksgiving, A Call Comes to Me Concerning Insulation
Ice Shanties
A Field Mouse at My Fishing Hole
Poem with Levels of Meaning
Uncle George at the Home
All Hallows' Eve in Kansas
Jabon
In the Social Security Office
A Letter from My Good Hand
"Is My Heart Really Big as My Fist?"
Wheat
It's Spring, Lover
Old Farm in Northern Michigan
A Memory