Box 4

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Forever Liddy • Fried Amethysts • Captive • Incantation • Feature • Forever Walking Free • Shooting Crows • Gene's Scrapbook • Softest L'l Thing • After the Rain • Special Mention

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Prairies • .38 Caliber • Catfish • Spirit Dance • Smoke From the Ashes • The Gift • Daddy's Closet • Town Drunk • The Fan • On the Wing • Interview: Paul Micich

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The St. Croix • Alph-Omega • In A Dream • Night Excursions • Ruth Suckow • Ms. Vogel and Ollie • Making-Up • The Ritual • My Destined Insanity • Dreams • Remnants of Lunch • Iowa's Opium Dens • Do I Rhyme with You? • Deep Roots Family South • The Skill Woman Juggle • Acknowledgements

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A Cool Numb • To a Dove With a Broken Wing • From a Journal • Isn't It Exhausting • Featured Artist: Brian Duffy: Up Front with His Opinions • Sharing • Frog Song • The Magnificent Peace • Backward Glances • To My Poem Mentor • Dance of the Dead • Slick as a Snake • Why I Don't Shave • Acknowledgements

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Jordan's Place • Jumping Jennie Juniper • Blue Dream #3 • Monarch • Mauricio Lasansky • Mauricio Lasansky and the Art of Printmaking • An Artistic Life • New Context • Mauricio Lasansky on His Art • The Salmon Pool • Chartres Street Memories • Armistice Day 90 • Fat Boy • Anthropology 101 • Life • Goodnight Emily • For Those Who Love • Acknowledgements

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Roxanne's Purse • The Morning Jogger • My Deck • Love is Most Talked About • Going Somewhere • Ah! Such are Spiral For • Empty Seats • Susan Glaspell: Beyond the Hearth • Introduction to "Trifles" • Trifles • Lizard Fad • Hayfield • Remnants of a Soldier • Yin, Yang, and Death • This Day's Decision • Birthday Present • Year Vision • Answers • Field Stones • To My Middle Child • An Invitation • Acknowledgements

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A Labor of Loss • Playing in the Garden • Flight of a Comet • Untitled • Ghost at Curly's • Bomb Shelter • Library Zone Time • A Christmas Memory • Adieu • Deus Irae • Paul Engl SHowcase • Acknowledgements

Scope and Contents My Friend • Raw Vision • Of Snows Long Past • Canoeing • Threes • Popsicles • From the Factory Ballads • Hypothetical Situation • An Evening Out • A Good Man Is Hard To Find • Die And Learn • Death Of A Homeless Man • Divorce Etouffee • Kill The Ump! • Shifting Sand • (Ronieisthatyou?) • Gustav, Wo Sind Sie • James Hearst: A Poet Of Iowa And The World • Landscape - Iowa • Truth • Forsythia • The Visitor • Not The Day To Listen • Snake In The Strawberries • The Same In This As Other...

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Acknowledgements • Africa • Visiting On the West Side • Bracing the Wind • July • Farewell to Arms • Silk Butterflies • Fond Memories • Espadrilles • Fashion • Relative Death • View From the Window • Circles • Choices • Only • Advice • Clouded Sunshine • Did You Notice the Ship • Death • Words to a Clown • The Best Seat

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Acknowledgements • Batalia • The Lesson • Tuesday • Have A Good One • January 28, 1986 • To Men Who Like To Fish • Spoken Without A Sound • One Night In The Woods • A Daughter's Flawless Vision • Easy To Be Me • Regrets On A Sleepless Night • Tom and Sara • The Windy City, A Parable • Sacraments • Zinnia • See The World • The Whole • The Barn