Part One
The Way of the Wind in the Summer Fields
The Morning You Came to the Hayfield
An Abandoned Bridge on Spoon River
The Itinerant
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Part Two
Class
Nights by a Window, Listening to a Train
The Dark Fields
Her Father's War
Last Stand
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Part Four
Love Among the Graves
The Apostasy of Caleb Cobb
Proprietress of the Party Line
Will Jenkins
The Harvest
The Callers
Hanging Out Wash in Midst of Fall Plowing
The Prodigal
The Exile
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Part Five
After the Auction
There are Stories
The Widower
The Old Masterson Place
The Graying Edge of a Winter Evening
Nightfall in a Rural Graveyard
Epitaph
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Copyright 2001, 2006 by BJ Omanson
A number of the poems on this collection
appeared first
in the following periodicals:
The Sewanee Review,
The Hudson Review,
Sparrow: A Yearbook of the Sonnet,
Shenandoah,
Chronicles,
Northern Review.
Pennsylvania Review
"The Harvest"
recently appeared in
The Academy of American Poets'
New Voices, 1989-1998
where, without permission,
it was partially rewritten
by the editor, who left its
meter nicely mangled.
The true, unregenerate version
can be read here.
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