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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to the Reader

  Dedication

from Sure Signs

1980

1  Selecting a Reader

2  First Snow

3  An Old Photograph

4  The Constellation Orion

5  The Salesman

6  Old Soldiers’ Home

7  Fort Robinson

8  How to Foretell a Change in the Weather

9  Snow Fence

10  In an Old Apple Orchard

11  After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine Cabinet

12  Carrie

13  For a Friend

14  Five P.M.

15  Abandoned Farmhouse

16  At the Bait Stand

17  The Widow Lester

18  The Red Wing Church

from One World at a Time

1985

1  Flying at Night

2  In the Basement of the Goodwill Store

3  In January, 1962

4  Father

5  The Fan in the Window

6  Daddy Longlegs

7  Goodbye

8  Laundry

9  Ladder

10  Walking at Noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska

11  At Nightfall

12  Cleaning a Bass

13  A Letter

14  The Voyager 2 Satellite

15  As the President Spoke

16  The Urine Specimen

17  Porch Swing in September

from The Blizzard Voices

1986

1  Eighteen eighty-eight, a Thursday

2  Father and I had pulled the pump up

3  My maiden name was Hanna

4  Depending where on the plains

5  I was an Ohio girl

6  Corn was at twelve cents a bushel

7  In all my years I never saw

8  So go the old stories

from Weather Central

1994

1  Étude

2  A Finding

3  An Elegy

4  Snakeskin

5  A Letter in October

6  Four Secretaries

7  Shoes

8  City Limits

9  Site

10  Surveyors

11  Another Story

12  Five-Finger Exercise

13  Sparklers

14  Old Dog in March

15  The Great-Grandparents

16  Weather Central

from Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison

2000

1  Epigraph

2  November 9

3  November 10

4  November 12

5  November 18

6  November 29

7  December 2

8  December 14

9  December 20

10  December 22

11  January 5

12  January 7

13  January 12

14  January 17

15  January 19

16  January 31

17  February 16

18  February 18

19  March 2

20  March 7

21  March 12

22  March 20

from Delights & Shadows

2004

1  Walking on Tiptoe

2  At the Cancer Clinic

3  Gyroscope

4  A Rainy Morning

5  Mourners

6  Skater

7  Mother

8  A Jar of Buttons

9  Dishwater

10  Applesauce

11  Father

12  Pearl

13  Telescope

14  A Washing of Hands

15  After Years

from Valentines

2008

1  A Heart of Gold

2  Barn Owl

3  Song of the Ironing Board

4  For You, Friend

5  A Map of the World

6  This Paper Boat

from Splitting an Order

2014

1  Splitting an Order

2  Bad News

3  Swinging from Parents

4  At Arby’s, at Noon

5  Changing Drivers

6  Two

7  Opossum

8  A Visitant at Five A.M.

9  A Jonathan in Spring

10  Sundial

11  Lantern

12  A Mouse in a Trap

13  Zinc Lid

14  At a Kitchen Table

15  A Morning in Early Spring

16  Sleep Apnea

17  Deep Winter

18  New Moon

19  Painting the Barn

20  Awakening

from At Home

2017

1  Road Kill

2  Locust Trees in Late May

3  The Sick Bat

4  Croquet Ball

5  Barred Owl

6  Nine Wild Turkeys

7  A Walk with My Dog

8  Meteor Shower

New Poems

1

1  Sewing Machine

2  Putz

3  Memorial Day

4  A Bottle Collection

5  The Clipper Ship

6  Blackout

7  Goldfish

8  A Color Slide

9  Post Office

10  Ames By-Products

11  Helmet

12  By Flowing Water

13  An Antique Teacup

14  Parents

15  Death of a Dog

16  A Line in the Rain

2

1  A February Walk

2  In Early April

3  Roadside

4  Three Steps in the Grass

5  Snapping Turtle

6  A Summer Afternoon with Clouds

7  Nash

8  A Marriage

9  An Appearance

10  Walking in Fog beside a Lake

11  The Constellation

12  Turning Up the Thermostat

13  A Yellow Rope

14  Hoarfrost

15  Moon Shadows

16  December Morning

3

1  A Man on a Bridge

2  Arabesque

3  On a Windy Day

4  People We Will Never See Again

5  Passing Through

6  Laundromat

7  Landing

8  Piano

9  Smoke Rings

10  Two by the Road

11  Richard

12  Brueghel: Hunters in the Snow

13  Firewood

14  Card Trick

15  Three Shadows

16  A Long Midwinter Walk

17  Waxer

  Index of Titles

  Index of First Lines

  About the Author

  Also by Ted Kooser

  Notes and Acknowledgments

  Copyright

  Special thanks