The branch will not break : poems

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As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor -- Goodbye to the poetry of calcium -- In fear of harvests -- Three stanzas from Goethe -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- The jewel -- In the face of hatred -- Fear is what quickens me -- A message hidden in an empty wine bottle that I threw into a gully of maple trees one night at an indecent hour -- Stages on a journey westward -- How my fever left -- Miners -- In Ohio -- Two poems about President Harding -- Eisenhower's visit to Franco, 1959 -- In memory of a Spanish poet -- The undermining of the defense economy -- Twilights -- Two hangovers -- Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me -- Two horses playing in the orchard -- By a lake in Minnesota -- Beginning -- From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower -- March -- Trying to pray -- Two spring charms -- Spring images -- Arriving in the country again -- In the cold house -- Snowstorm in the Midwest -- Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon : Christmas 1960 -- American wedding -- A prayer to escape from the market place -- Rain -- Today I was happy, so I made this poem -- Mary Bly -- To the evening star : Central Minnesota -- I was afraid of dying -- A blessing -- Milkweed -- A dream of burial.

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