Nature

NATURE, a major compendium of May Swenson's poems, including ten that appeared first in this collection, draws on nearly fifty years of work. "Surely no one, scientist or poet," wrote former U.S. poet laureate Howard Nemerov, "has seen things . . . so clearly as she, and surely no one has made seeing and saying so nearly one."

Foreword

Susan Mitchell

FRONTISPIECES

Come in Go Out

3

(1)

Living Tenderly

3

(1)

Untitled

4

(1)

A Day is Laid By

4

(1)

On Its Way

5

(1)

How to be Old

6

(1)

View to the North

7

(1)

The Exchange

8

(3)

SELVES

The Truth is Forced

11

(1)

A Lake Scene

12

(1)

The Centaur

13

(3)

Earth Your Dancing Place

16

(1)

The Crossing

17

(1)

The Poplar's Shadow

18

(1)

I Look at My Hand

19

(1)

If I Had Children

20

(1)

A Dream

21

(1)

Laocoon Dream Recorded in Diary Dated 1943

22

(1)

Cabala

23

(1)

Sunday in the Country

24

(1)

Beast

25

(1)

Mornings Innocent

26

(1)

Evolution

27

(1)

Love Sleeping

28

(1)

Blue

29

(1)

What I Did On a Rainy Day

30

(1)

Lying and Looking

30

(1)

Almanac

31

(1)

Green and Brown and White

32

(1)

A Loaf of Time

33

(1)

Forest

34

(1)

The Thickening Mat

35

(1)

Deciding

36

(1)

The Beauty of the Head

37

(4)

Daffodildo

41

(4)

Question

45

(1)

Birthday

45

(1)

Above the Arno

46

(3)

Manyone Flying

49

(1)

The Lightning

50

(1)

On the Edge

51

(1)

A Subject of the Waves

52

(2)

A Truro

54

(1)

October

55

(5)

Digging in the Garden of Age I Uncover a Live Root

60

(1)

This Morning

60

(1)

Scroppo's Dog

61

(2)

Horse

63

(1)

Bleeding

64

(1)

Hearing the Wind at Night

65

(1)

The Fluffy Stuff

65

(1)

Weather

66

(1)

Yes, the Mystery

67

(1)

The Little Rapids

68

(1)

Downward

68

(1)

Subconscious Sea

69

(1)

Rusty Autuman

70

(1)

I Will Lie Down

71

(1)

Secure

71

(1)

Still Turning

72

(2)

Order of Diet

74

(1)

The Alyscamps at Arles

75

(2)

Trinity Churchyard, Spring 1961

77

(1)

Nature

78

(1)

Feel Me

79

(1)

Death, Great Smoothener

80

(1)

Last Day

81

(1)

The Engagement

82

(3)

DAYS

A Day Like Rousseau's Dream

85

(1)

Srping Uncovered

86

(1)

April Light

87

(1)

A City Garden in April

88

(4)

Water Picture

92

(1)

A Tree in Spring

93

(1)

In the Yard

94

(1)

Rain at Wildwood

94

(2)

Catbird in Redbud

96

(1)

Shu Swamp, Spring

96

(1)

One Morning in New Hampshire

97

(2)

Sketch for a Landscape

99

(1)

Flag of Summer

100

(1)

Haymaking

100

(2)

Summer's Bounty

102

(1)

Her Management

102

(5)

FEATHERS

On Addy Road

107

(1)

Camoufleur

108

(1)

Angels at ``Unsubdued''

108

(1)

The Woods at Night

109

(1)

The Snowy

110

(2)

Fountain Piece

112

(1)

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay

113

(1)

One of the Strangest

113

(1)

Pigeon Woman

114

(2)

A Pair

116

(1)

The Willets

117

(1)

Goodbye, Goldeneye

117

(1)

Camping in Madera Canyon

118

(2)

Above Bear Lake

120

(1)

October Textures

121

(1)

Waterbird

122

(1)

A New Pair

122

(1)

Another Spring Uncovered

123

(1)

Feel Like a Bird

124

(2)

Stripping and Putting on

126

(5)

MAKINGS

The Playhouse

131

(2)

Dear Elizabeth

133

(2)

In the Bodies of Words

135

(2)

Spring

137

(1)

Robert Lowell

Trudi Fuller

Picasso: ``Dream.'' Oil. 1932

138

(1)

Naked in Borneo

138

(2)

My Farm

140

(1)

The Red Bird Tapestry

141

(1)

Dream After Nanook

142

(1)

Goodnight

143

(4)

INSTINCTS

News from the Cabin

147

(2)

Alternate Hosts

149

(1)

A Couple

150

(1)

Fable for When There's No Way Out

151

(1)

Zambesi and Ranee

152

(2)

Bronco Busting, Event #1

154

(1)

Motherhood

155

(2)

Wednesday at the Waldorf

157

(1)

Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore

158

(1)

Death Invited

158

(2)

Big-Hipped Nature

160

(1)

Each Like a Leaf

161

(2)

All That Time

163

(1)

Out of the Sea, Early

164

(1)

Gods | Children

164

(4)

The Process

168

(3)

HEAVENS

Once There Were Glaciers

171

(1)

Sleeping Overnight on the Shore

171

(2)

The Day Moon

173

(1)

The Cloud-Mobile

174

(1)

Cumuli

175

(1)

Flying Home From Utah

175

(2)

Landing on the Moon

177

(1)

Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks From the Moon

178

(1)

After the Flight of Ranger 7

179

(1)

Of Rounds

180

(2)

Comet Watch on Indian Key---Night of April 10, 1986

182

(1)

Seeing Jupiter

183

(1)

The Solar Corona

184

(1)

As Long Ago as Far Away

185

(1)

Skopus

186

(1)

Survey of the Whole

187

(4)

VISIONS

Look Closer

191

(1)

A Navajo Blanket

192

(1)

By Morning

193

(1)

The North Rim

194

(2)

Speed

196

(1)

The Garden at St. John's

196

(2)

The Surface

198

(1)

On Handling Some Small Shells From the Windward Islands

199

(3)

Any Object

202

(1)

Fountains of Aix

203

(4)

WATERS

Ocean, Whale-Shaped

207

(1)

The Sea

208

(1)

From Sea Cliff, March

209

(1)

Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another

210

(1)

The Promontory Moment

210

(2)

Early Morning: Cape Cod

212

(1)

Running on the Shore

213

(1)

Captain Holm

213

(1)

St. Augustine-by-The-Sea

214

(1)

Stone Gullets

215

(1)

How Everything Happens (Based on a Study of the Wave)

216

(1)

At First, At Last

217

(1)

Swimmers

218

(1)

Waking From a Nap on the Beach

219

(1)

Beginning to Squall

219

(1)

A Hurricane at Sea

220

(2)

Old No. 1

222

(1)

Zero in the Cove

223

(1)

November Night

224

(1)

Overboard

225

(1)

The Wave and the Dune

226

(1)

The Blue Bottle

227

(2)

The Stick

229

(1)

The Even Sea

230

(1)

The Tide at Long Point

230

(5)

AFTERPIECE

Incantation

235

(2)

Index of Titles

237

(4)

About the Poet

241

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