Prelude


Part One

The Way of the Wind in the Summer Fields
The Morning You Came to the Hayfield
An Abandoned Bridge on Spoon River
In a Late-Summer Field at Nightfall
From a Porch at Dusk
The Itinerant



Part Two

Class
Nights by a Window, Listening to a Train
The Dark Fields
Her Father's War
Last Stand



Part Three

The Revelation of Sam Hackett



Part Four

Love Among the Graves
The Apostasy of Caleb Cobb
Proprietress of the Party Line
The Harvest
The Callers
Hanging Out Wash in Midst of Fall Plowing
The Prodigal
The Exile
On the Morn of Creation



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




Copyright 2001, 2006 by BJ Omanson
Some 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.

"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.



Where Darkness
Falls Early
on the Fields
is also available
as a
printed book.

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information.



POEMS by BJ Omanson.