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A project for freight trains, David Young -- Progress, Edith Agnew -- Pony Song, Rudy Bantista -- Learning about the indians, Mary Oliver -- Needs, A. R. Ammons -- Through the automatic carwash, Robert Vas Dias -- The owl on the aerial, Clarice Short -- The television, Geoffrey Godbey -- Jetliner, Naoshi Koriyama -- Back yard, July night, William Cole -- And they lived happily ever after for a while, John Ciardi -- Man in orbit, D. O. Pitches -- For poets, Al Young -- Don't tell anybody, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam -- The secret, Denise Levertov -- The unwritten, W. S. Merwin -- Tartars, Uzbeks, Samoyeds, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam -- Poem: a reminder, Robert Graves -- Winter poem, Nikki Giovanni -- White butterfly, Tai Wang-Shu -- Drawing by Ronnie C., Grade one, Ruth Lechlitner -- Magicwords, Netsilik origin (Eskimo) -- Days, Philip Larkin -- Don Larsen's perfectgame, Paul Goodman -- The act, William Carlos WIlliams -- Seventy-six, Lao Tsu -- At grandmother's, John Haislip -- Incident in a rose garden, Donald Justice -- The day we die, Kalahari origin (Africa) -- Today is a very good day to die, Nancy Wood -- Heaven and hell, Netsilik origin (Eskimo) -- The artist, WIlliam Carlos Williams -- Jumped off, Don Gray -- Plea, Judith Hamschemeyer -- Piano lessons, Candy Clayton -- Riding lesson, Henry Taylor -- How to paint the portrait of a bird, Jacques Prevert -- 400-meter freestyle, Maxine Kumin -- Pole vault, Shiro Murano -- Sky diving, Rod Taylor -- What my uncle Tony told my sister, Angie, and me, Simon J. Ortiz -- Self expression, Ann Darr -- You had to go to funerals, ALice Walker -- Have you ever hurt about baskets? Marylita Altaha -- Lineage, Margaret Walker -- The Chinese greengrocers, Pat Lowther -- Game after suppoer, Margaret Atwood, Prospectus, Joe Nieto -- Kit, six years old, standing by the dashboard keeping daddy awake on a trip home from the beach, William Stafford -- Ancestors, Grey Cohoe -- The giveaway, Phyllis McGinley -- Love song for a jellyfish, Sandra Hochman -- Flying crooked, Robert Graves -- Pigeons, Richard Kell -- The cat, William Matthews -- Feline lesson, Hugh McNamar -- The shark, John Ciardi -- Sardines, Spike Milligan -- The duck, Ogden Nash -- Point of view, David McCord -- While the snake sleeps, Judith Sampson -- Snake hunt, David Wagoner -- Zoo, Michael Allin -- The fall, Muriel Spark -- Through the window, Naoshi Koriyama -- The driver, Joel Lueders -- Isleta indian girl, Keith Wilson -- After supper, Hugh McNamar -- Looking north to Taos, Rudy Bantista -- Religion, Merrit Malloy -- Breaklight, Lucille Clifton -- Weather, Robert Hershon -- How to tell a tornado, Howard Mohr -- Nothing at all, David Finkel -- Hello, Hello Henry, Maxine Kumin -- Poem, Langston Hughes -- Worms and the wind, Carl Sandburg -- Race prejudice, Alfred Kreymborg -- Migration, Carole Gregory -- Done with, Ann Stanford -- Roaches, Peter Wild -- Battle won is lost, Phil George -- The locust swarm, Hsu Chao -- The wolves, Galway Kinnell -- Plaint of the summer vampires, Judith Moffett -- Waking, Annie Higgins -- Alarm clock, Eve Merriam -- Formula, Ana Maria Iza -- Two ways to wake a sleepwalker, Edward Lueders -- Preoccupation, Mbundu origin (Africa) -- Where? Kenneth Patchen -- Explanations of love, Carl Sandburg -- With the door open, David Ignatow -- Simile, N. Scott Momaday -- Water color, Paul Engle -- Simple-song, Marge Piercy -- Mi maestro, Ana Castillo -- Separation, W. S. Merwin -- Intimates, D. H. Lawrence -- In golden gate park that day, Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Haiku, Sonia Sanchez -- My rules, Shel Silverstein -- I love you in caves and meadows, David Ignatow -- Yei-ie's child, Charles C. Long -- Two girls singing, Iain Crichton Smith -- The little trumpet, Corrado Govoni -- At quitting time, Robert Sund -- Laying the dust, Denise Levertov -- Evening, Mohan SIngh -- Verper, Alcman of Sparta -- Swan asnd shadow, John Hollander -- The sky, Ewe origin (Africa) -- Constellations, Primus St. John -- Night rain, Ann |
