Flying at night : poems 1965-1985
Publication Information
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, c1985.
Physical Description
142 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Contents
- 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
- P.M
- Abandoned farmhouse
- The blind always come as such a surprise
- Furnace
- West window
- Boarding house
- A letter from Aunt Belle
- At the ba