Sure signs: Selecting a reader
First snow
An old photograph
The constellation Orion
The salesman
Old soldiers' home
Self-portrait at thirty-nine
Christmas Eve
Visiting mountains
The leaky faucet
A frozen stream
Living near the rehabilitation home
Late February
A drive in the country
Spring plowing
Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen
Sure signs
A summer night
In a country cemetery in Iowa
The man with the hearing aid
The very old
Walking beside a creek
Book club
At the end of the weekend
Uncle Adler
In the corners of fields
How to make rhubarb wine
Late lights in Minnesota
The afterlife
A widow
So this is Nebraska
Fort Robinson
How to foretell a change in the weather
Snow fence
In an old apple orchard
An empty place
After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet
The grandfather cap
Shooting a farmhouse
Beer bottle
Sleeping cat
North of Alliance
Late September
Carrie
For a friend
Grandfather
Looking for you, Barbara
Pocket poem
Moles
Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93
Advice
After my grandmother's funeral
A hot night in wheat country
Five P.M
Abandoned farmhouse
The blind always come as such a surprise
Furnace
West window
Boarding house
A letter from Aunt Belle
At the bait stand
The tattooed lady
A death at the office
There is always a little wind
The Widow Lester
Houses at the edge of town
The old woman
A place in Kansas
Tom Ball's barn
My grandfather dying
The Red Wing Church
Highway 30
Birthday
The failed suicide
The goldfish floats to the top of his life
They had torn off my face at the office
Year's end
New Year's Day
Walking to work
Sunday morning
One world at a time: Flying at night
A fencerow in early March
Just now
A birthday card
In the basement of the Goodwill Store
Camera
A room in the past
In January, 1962
Tillage marks
A child's grave marker
Father
At midnight
Central
The fan in the window
Myrtle
Daddy longlegs
Good-bye
The giant slide
A roadside shrine in Kansas
Decoration day
A monday in May
A buffalo skull
Laundry
The mouse
Ladder
Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska
A patch of sunlight
Carp
At the center
A sunset
The ride
At nightfall
At the office early
Cleaning a bass
An empty shotgun shell
A quarter moon just before dawn
A letter
Latvian neighborhood
The Voyager II satellite
The witness
As the President spoke
The pitch
The sigh
The onion woman
Hobo jungle
An August night
The urine specimen
Geronimo's mirror
Porch swing in September.
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Flying at night : poems 1965-1985 by Ted Kooser. ISBN 0822958775. Published by University of pittsburgh Press in 1985. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
