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Collected poems 1956-1976, David Wagoner

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Collected poems 1956-1976

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David Wagoner

To my friend whose parachute did not open -- Words about a narrow entrance -- "Tan Ta Ra, Cries Mars ..." -- Spring song -- Feast -- Man from the top of the mind -- Murder mystery -- Memento mori -- Lullaby through the side of the mouth -- First Word -- After consulting my yellow pages -- Diary -- Closing time -- Guide to dungeness spit -- Nesting ground -- Homage -- Seánce for two hands -- Emergency maker -- Free passage -- Calculation -- Elegy for Simon Corl, botanist -- Offertory -- Plumage -- Once upon a picnic ground -- No sale -- Breathing lesson -- Satirists -- Advice to the orchestra -- Out for a night -- Every good boy does fine -- That old gang of mine -- Day in the city -- On seeing an X-Ray of my head -- Standing halfway home -- Observer -- Filling out a blank -- Words -- Staying alive -- Fruit of the Tree -- House-hunting -- Shooting of John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 -- Draftsman, 1945 -- Night of the sad women -- Water music for the progress of love in a life-raft down the Sammamish Slough -- Poets agree to be quiet by the swamp -- Man of the house -- For the warming of an artist's studio -- Waiting on the curb -- Night passage -- By the orchard -- Going to pieces -- Stretching canvases -- Welcome -- Revival -- Talking to the forest -- Walking in the snow -- Afternoon on the ground -- Sleeping by a river -- After falling -- Valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana -- Circuit -- Speech from a comedy -- Osprey's nest -- Making up for a soul -- Observations from the outer edge -- Leaving something behind -- Working against time -- Room with a view -- Come before his countenance with a joyful leaping -- Song to accompany the bearer of bad news -- At St. Vincent DePaul's -- Bums at breakfast -- Blues to be sung in a dark voice -- March of Coxey's army -- Searching in the Britannia tavern -- Getting out of jail on Monday -- Burglar -- Shoplifter -- Hold-Up -- Visiting hour -- Escape artist -- Tumbleweed -- Soles -- Recollection -- Fire by the river -- Nine charms against the hunter -- In the open season -- Archeological notes -- Warbler -- From Hell to breakfast -- Crossing half a river -- Stretching -- Last look -- Note from body to soul -- Plainsong for everyone who was killed yesterday -- Apotheosis of the garbagemen -- Riverbed -- Fisherman's wife -- Keepers -- In the Badlands -- Talking back -- Trail horse -- Death and resurrection of the birds -- Doors -- Touch of the mother -- For a man who died in his sleep -- Song offkey -- Lying awake in a bed once slept in by Grover Cleveland -- Inexhaustible hat -- Extraordinary production of eggs from the mouth -- Epitaph for a ladies' man -- Victorian idyll -- Police manual -- Fortuna imperatrix mundi -- Middle of nowhere -- One ear to the ground -- Waiting with the Snowy Owls -- To be sung on the water -- Halcyon days -- Survivor -- One more for the rain -- Break of day -- Gift wrapping -- Last words of the human fly -- Vacation -- Do not proceed beyond this point without a guide -- Other side of the mountain -- Doing time -- First law of motion -- Floating lady -- Makers of rain -- Doves of Mérida -- Gathering of the loons -- Old man, old man -- Lost -- Fog -- Singing lesson -- Beginning -- Bad fisherman -- Talking to Barr Creek -- First place -- Vow -- Slow country -- To be written in Braille -- Song for the worst day -- Living in the ruins -- Moving into the garden -- Offering for Dungeness Bay -- Muse -- Labors of Thor -- Beauty and the Beast -- Unloading the elephants -- Snake Hunt -- Worms -- At the Hemingway memorial -- Tachycardia at the foot of the fifth green -- Elegy for a woman who remembered everything -- Man who spilled light -- Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons -- Note to a literary club -- Boy of the house -- Litany -- This is a wonderful poem -- Chorus from a lost play-I -- Chorus from a lost play-II -- Report from a forest logged by the Weyerhaeuser Company -- Lesson -- Elegy for a forest clear-cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company -- Sleeping in the woods -- For a winter wren -- Bonsai -- Lost street -- Raging -- Vacancy -- Trying to pray -- Prayer -- Fire song -- Song for the maker of nightmares -- Song for the soul going away -- Dark song -- Song for the soul returning -- Song for the first people -- Death song -- Breaking camp -- Meeting a bear -- Walking in a swamp -- Tracking -- Missing the trail -- From here to there -- Being shot -- Waiting in a rain forest -- Travelling light -- First trick -- Return of Icarus -- Roles -- Getting somewhere -- Death of Paul Bunyan -- Breaking point -- Walking at night -- Relics -- For a thirteenth anniversary -- Her dream -- Low tide -- Clancy -- For Patt, whispering to a burro -- Old words -- Uncanny illusion of the headless lady -- Change -- Who shall be the sun? -- How moss grew strong -- How stone held his breath -- How stump stood in the water -- How stump found his village -- How stump fished in the Black River -- How Stump Became Rock's brother -- How Stump dreamed of earthmaker -- Song for the painting of the dead -- Song for the eating of barnicles -- Song for the stealing of spring -- Song for snake -- Song against the sky -- Song for a stolen soul -- Song for the skull of Black Bear -- Song for the bones of salmon -- Song for ice