Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, , Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1

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Selecting a reader 3
First snow 4
An old photograph 5
The constellation Orion 6
The salesman 7
Old soldiers' home 8
Self-portrait at thirty-nine 9
Christmas Eve 10
Visiting mountains 11
The leaky faucet 12
A frozen stream 13
Living near the rehabilitation home 14
Late February 15
A drive in the country 17
Spring plowing 18
Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen 19
Sure signs 20
A summer night 21
In a country cemetery in Iowa 22
The man with the hearing aid 23
The very old 24
Walking beside a creek 25
Book club 26
At the end of the weekend 28
Uncle Adler 29
In the corners of fields 30
How to make rhubarb wine 31
Late lights in Minnesota 33
The afterlife 34
A widow 35
So this is Nebraska 36
Fort Robinson 38
How to foretell a change in the weather 39
Snow fence 41
In an old apple orchard 42
An empty place 43
After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet 44
The grandfather cap 45
Shooting a farmhouse 46
Beer bottle 48
Sleeping cat 49
North of alliance 50
Late September 51
Carrie 52
For a friend 53
Grandfather 54
Looking for you, Barbara 55
Pocket poem 56
Moles 57
Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93 58
Advice 59
After my grandmother's funeral 60
A hot night in wheat country 61
Five P.M. 62
Abandoned farmhouse 63
The blind always come as such a surprise 64
Furnace 65
West window 66
Boarding house 67
A letter from Aunt Belle 68
At the bait stand 69
The tattooed lady 70
A death at the office 71
There is always a little wind 72
The widow Lester 73
Houses at the edge of town 74
The old woman 75
A place in Kansas 76
Tom Ball's barn 77
My grandfather dying 78
The red wing church 79
Highway 30 80
Birthday 81
The failed suicide 82
The goldfish floats to the top of his life 83
They had torn off my face at the office 84
Year's end 85
New Year's Day 86
Walking to work 87
Sunday morning 88
Flying at night 91
A fencerow in early March 92
Just now 93
A birthday card 94
In the basement of the Goodwill store 95
Camera 96
A room in the past 97
In January, 1962 98
Tillage marks 99
A child's grave marker 100
Father 101
At midnight 104
Central 105
The fan in the window 106
Myrtle 107
Daddy longlegs 108
Good-bye 109
The giant slide 110
A roadside shrine in Kansas 111
Decoration day 112
A Monday in May 113
A buffalo skull 114
Laundry 115
The mouse 116
Ladder 117
Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska 118
A patch of sunlight 120
Carp 121
At the center 122
A sunset 123
The ride 124
At nightfall 125
At the office early 126
Cleaning a bass 127
An empty shotgun shell 128
A quarter moon just before dawn 129
A letter 130
Latvian neighborhood 131
The Voyager II satellite 132
The witness 133
As the president spoke 134
The pitch 135
The sigh 136
The onion woman 137
Hobo jungle 138
An August night 139
The urine specimen 140
Geronimo's mirror 141
Porch swing in September 142

Title: Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985

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Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985

Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser

He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
on a pile of broken dishes by the house;
a tall man too, says the length of the bed
in an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,
says the Bible with a broken back
on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;
but not a man for farming, say the fields
cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.

A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall
papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves
covered with oilcloth, and they had a child,
says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.
Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves
and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.
And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.
It was lonely here, says the narrow country road.

Something went wrong, says the empty house
in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields
say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.
And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard
like branches after a storm'a rubber cow,
a rusty tractor with a broken plow,
a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.

Daddy Longlegs
Ted Kooser

Here, on fine long legs springy as steel,
a life rides, sealed in a small brown pill
that skims along over the basement floor
wrapped up in a simple obsession.
Eight legs reach out like the master ribs
of a web in which some thought is caught
dead center in its own small world,
a thought so far from the touch of things
that we can only guess at it. If mine,
it would be the secret dream
of walking alone across the floor of my life
with an easy grace, and with love enough
to live on at the center of myself.

And this is Ted Kooser reading (and you can read along with him) his sweet poem "This is Nebraska":

These are three poems I liked from a book that collects/republished two of Kooser's earlier books of poems, Signs (1980) and One World at a Time (1985). I like some of his later work better, the exchanges he did with Jim Harrison, the poems he wrote in the process of battling cancer, but these are warm, accessible, mostly narrative poems of rural Nebraska and its people by the former Poet Laureate.

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	Selecting a reader	3
	First snow	4
	An old photograph	5
	The constellation Orion	6
	The salesman	7
	Old soldiers' home	8
	Self-portrait at thirty-nine	9
	Christmas Eve	10
	Visiting mountains	11
	The leaky faucet	12
	A frozen stream	13
	Living near the rehabilitation home	14
	Late February	15
	A drive in the country	17
	Spring plowing	18
	Sitting all evening alone in the kitchen	19
	Sure signs	20
	A summer night	21
	In a country cemetery in Iowa	22
	The man with the hearing aid	23
	The very old	24
	Walking beside a creek	25
	Book club	26
	At the end of the weekend	28
	Uncle Adler	29
	In the corners of fields	30
	How to make rhubarb wine	31
	Late lights in Minnesota	33
	The afterlife	34
	A widow	35
	So this is Nebraska	36
	Fort Robinson	38
	How to foretell a change in the weather	39
	Snow fence	41
	In an old apple orchard	42
	An empty place	43
	After the funeral : cleaning out the medicine cabinet	44
	The grandfather cap	45
	Shooting a farmhouse	46
	Beer bottle	48
	Sleeping cat	49
	North of alliance	50
	Late September	51
	Carrie	52
	For a friend	53
	Grandfather	54
	Looking for you, Barbara	55
	Pocket poem	56
	Moles	57
	Notes on the death of Nels Paulssen, farmer, at the ripe old age of 93	58
	Advice	59
	After my grandmother's funeral	60
	A hot night in wheat country	61
	Five P.M.	62
	Abandoned farmhouse	63
	The blind always come as such a surprise	64
	Furnace	65
	West window	66
	Boarding house	67
	A letter from Aunt Belle	68
	At the bait stand	69
	The tattooed lady	70
	A death at the office	71
	There is always a little wind	72
	The widow Lester	73
	Houses at the edge of town	74
	The old woman	75
	A place in Kansas	76
	Tom Ball's barn	77
	My grandfather dying	78
	The red wing church	79
	Highway 30	80
	Birthday	81
	The failed suicide	82
	The goldfish floats to the top of his life	83
	They had torn off my face at the office	84
	Year's end	85
	New Year's Day	86
	Walking to work	87
	Sunday morning	88
	Flying at night	91
	A fencerow in early March	92
	Just now	93
	A birthday card	94
	In the basement of the Goodwill store	95
	Camera	96
	A room in the past	97
	In January, 1962	98
	Tillage marks	99
	A child's grave marker	100
	Father	101
	At midnight	104
	Central	105
	The fan in the window	106
	Myrtle	107
	Daddy longlegs	108
	Good-bye	109
	The giant slide	110
	A roadside shrine in Kansas	111
	Decoration day	112
	A Monday in May	113
	A buffalo skull	114
	Laundry	115
	The mouse	116
	Ladder	117
	Walking at noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska	118
	A patch of sunlight	120
	Carp	121
	At the center	122
	A sunset	123
	The ride	124
	At nightfall	125
	At the office early	126
	Cleaning a bass	127
	An empty shotgun shell	128
	A quarter moon just before dawn	129
	A letter	130
	Latvian neighborhood	131
	The Voyager II satellite	132
	The witness	133
	As the president spoke	134
	The pitch	135
	The sigh	136
	The onion woman	137
	Hobo jungle	138
	An August night	139
	The urine specimen	140
	Geronimo's mirror	141
	Porch swing in September	142