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| Introduction | |
| Climates | |
| "Summer Cloudburst" | p. 3 |
| "Three Kinds of Pleasures | p. 4 |
| "One Hundred Percent Chance of Snow, Accumulating Six to Eight Inches by Morning" | p. 5 |
| "Eighty-four Days without Rain" | p. 7 |
| "Geraniums" | p. 8 |
| "June Walk" | p. 9 |
| "Rules for Winter" | p. 11 |
| "Fishing with My Two Boys at a Spring-fed Pond in Kansas" | p. 12 |
| "In Late Spring" | p. 14 |
| "Plowing" | p. 16 |
| "Too Long Away from Small Things" | p. 17 |
| "Finnish Women in the Summer Kitchen" | p. 18 |
| "Canoeing - the Lakes" | p. 19 |
| "Fishing with My Daughter in Miller's Meadow" | p. 21 |
| "Going West" | p. 22 |
| "The Undistinguished Poet" (from Staggerford) | p. 27 |
| "Strand of Wire" | p. 36 |
| "Horizontal Grandeur" | p. 41 |
| "Grace" | p. 46 |
| "The Midwest" | p. 48 |
| "The Spirit of Place" | p. 51 |
| The Presence of the Past | |
| "Tornado" | p. 69 |
| "Elwood Collins: Summer of 1932" | p. 71 |
| "Varna Snow" | p. 72 |
| "High School Boyfriend" | p. 73 |
| "Who Made Such Good Pies" | p. 75 |
| "Sacrifice of a Gunnysack of Cats" | p. 76 |
| "In Early Autumn" | p. 78 |
| "Hockey on the River" | p. 79 |
| "Migrant Mother, 1936" | p. 80 |
| "Midwest Sex Education - 1965" | p. 82 |
| "One Home" | p. 84 |
| "Breaking Silence" | p. 85 |
| "Star Quilt" | p. 88 |
| "Visiting the Graves - February'" | p. 89 |
| "Bloodsuckers" | p. 91 |
| "Gopher Hunting" | p. 103 |
| "Free" (from Green Earth) | p. 115 |
| "Plainsong" | p. 119 |
| "The Place of Your Dream" | p. 129 |
| "Saturday-Night Radio" | p. 135 |
| "Remember the Flowers" | p. 139 |
| Town and Country | |
| "Bandstand" | p. 155 |
| "Death of a Hen" | p. 156 |
| "Rural Fantasia" | p. 157 |
| "In Front of a Small Town Radio Station" | p. 159 |
| "A Drive in the Country" | p. 160 |
| "Airing Out" | p. 161 |
| "Elsie's Cafe in Aurelia Iowa" | p. 162 |
| "Lincoln Nebraska" | p. 163 |
| "The Water Tower Climbers" | p. 164 |
| "Regent, North Dakota: Two Poems" | p. 165 |
| "Icehouse" | p. 168 |
| "Closing the Cabin" | p. 170 |
| "Poet in Residence at a Country School" | p. 171 |
| "Looking Up" | p. 172 |
| "The Tender Organizations" | p. 173 |
| "State Fair" | p. 194 |
| "Dear John Deere" | p. 200 |
| "Corn Village" | p. 207 |
| "The Other Houses in Eldon, Iowa" | p. 219 |
| "Living off the Land in Minnesota" | p. 227 |
| "Cabin Fever" | p. 233 |
| Gains and Losses | |
| "Ballade of the Dusty Old Dust" | p. 241 |
| "The Old Farm Woman Examines Her Thoughts" | p. 242 |
| "Mine Towns" | p. 244 |
| "The Gleaning" | p. 246 |
| "Playing His Heart Out" | p. 248 |
| "Dear John Wayne" | p. 249 |
| "A Broad Gauge" | p. 251 |
| "lincoln tomb, a report" | p. 253 |
| "Thoughts Stolen from Geese" | p. 256 |
| "Crossing Lake Agassiz" | p. 258 |
| "Ideal" | p. 260 |
| "Picking Wildflowers in the Sandhills" | p. 262 |
| "Earthlings" | p. 265 |
| "Dark-House Spearing" | p. 266 |
| "What the Fall Brings" | p. 269 |
| "A Simple Matter of Hunger" | p. 279 |
| "Dispersal" | p. 293 |
| "Birth" | p. 301 |
| "Beginning" | p. 303 |
| "The View from a Monastery" | p. 309 |
| "July 1947: Many Point Scout Camp" | p. 313 |
| Contributors | p. 319 |
| Permissions | p. 331 |
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