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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to the Reader

  Dedication


from Sure Signs

1980

Selecting a Reader

First Snow

An Old Photograph

The Constellation Orion

The Salesman

Old Soldiers’ Home

Fort Robinson

How to Foretell a Change in the Weather

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

Flying at Night

In the Basement of the Goodwill Store

In January, 1962

Father

The Fan in the Window

Daddy Longlegs

Goodbye

Laundry

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

Eighteen eighty-eight, a Thursday

Father and I had pulled the pump up

My maiden name was Hanna

Depending where on the plains

I was an Ohio girl

Corn was at twelve cents a bushel

In all my years I never saw

So go the old stories


from Weather Central

1994

Étude

A Finding

An Elegy

Snakeskin

A Letter in October

Four Secretaries

Shoes

City Limits

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

Epigraph

November 9

November 10

November 12

November 18

November 29

December 2

December 14

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

Walking on Tiptoe

At the Cancer Clinic

Gyroscope

A Rainy Morning

Mourners

Skater

Mother

A Jar of Buttons

Dishwater

10  Applesauce

11  Father

12  Pearl

13  Telescope

14  A Washing of Hands

15  After Years


from Valentines

2008

A Heart of Gold

Barn Owl

Song of the Ironing Board

For You, Friend

A Map of the World

This Paper Boat


from Splitting an Order

2014

Splitting an Order

Bad News

Swinging from Parents

At Arby’s, at Noon

Changing Drivers

Two

Opossum

A Visitant at Five A.M.

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

Road Kill

Locust Trees in Late May

The Sick Bat

Croquet Ball

Barred Owl

Nine Wild Turkeys

A Walk with My Dog

Meteor Shower


New Poems

1

Sewing Machine

Putz

Memorial Day

A Bottle Collection

The Clipper Ship

Blackout

Goldfish

A Color Slide

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

A February Walk

In Early April

Roadside

Three Steps in the Grass

Snapping Turtle

A Summer Afternoon with Clouds

Nash

A Marriage

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

A Man on a Bridge

Arabesque

On a Windy Day

People We Will Never See Again

Passing Through

Laundromat

Landing

Piano

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

Kindest Regards

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