A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems Book

	Loading a Boar	5
	Behold	6
	Jubilate Agno, 1975	7
	Salvage Grain	11
	The Pig Hunt	13
	The Tale of the Graveblaster	18
	Racehogs	19
	Plowing	21
	For Jan, with Love	23
	Kolob at Evening	26
	Nighthunting with John	27
	Fall	28
	Jan's Birthday	29
	A Day of Mourning, 24 November '75	31
	Dusk	32
	North to Parowan Gap	35
	East to Paragonah	47
	Back to the Valley	60
	Barbed Wire	75
	The Hay Swather	79
	Tuesday Morning, Loading Pigs	82
	Tuesday Morning, Driving to the Auction in Salina	84
	The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)	86
	The Muffler and the Law	95
	Culture	104
	The Real Estate	105
	Mean	110
	Friday Afternoon, Feeding Pigs	118
	Building a Farrowing Pen	123
	The Farm	127
	Aftermath	128
	Balaam	129
	Epilogue	133
	Morning	139
	After an All-Night Farrow	140
	Sonnet on the Sun, Rising	141
	Phone Call	142
	January: Unloading Feed	144
	Fence Repair	145
	Faith Tittle	150
	Building Pigpens	156
	Coyote Dope	162
	The Tree	164
	Feeding	177
	Fat	185
	Arthritis	188
	Separating Pigs	196
	Morning Coffeebreak	198
	Machinery	199
	Castrating Pigs	208
	Edna Mae	221
	Still Life: Lightning Above the North Fields	223
	Hired Hand	224
	Digging Postholes	226
	The Feed Store Salesman	231
	Bargains	233
	Taking a Break	238
	Shoveling Rolled Barley	240
	August: Midnight Farrow	243
	Hauling Hogs	244
	September 1st	247
	September	252
	Roofing the Barn	253
	Evening	262
	Coda	263
	Pain	266
	Prelude	277
	Terrace Mound	278
	Ugly	280
	Fruit Trees	286
	Preacher	288
	Deaf	293
	Doc	295
	Bryant Williamson	302
	Clean	307
	Fast	309
	Potts Coal Mine, Inc	312
	Lazy	318
	The Sawmill Road	322
	No Lazy S Ranch	329
	Interlude	338
	Curley	341
	Jesse	346
	Vera	348
	Broken Leg	352
	The Wart	356
	Idyll	371
	Haystacking	372
	Brothers	380
	The Landrum Geese	382
	Bobby Joe	392
	Willie and the Water Pipe	393
	Postlude	398
	Benediction	401
	Psalm Written After Reading Cormac McCarthy and Taking a Three-Hour Climb to the Top of Pine Valley Mountain	407
	Cigarettes	408
	Whiskey	411
	Neighbors	415
	What Happened When Bobby Jack Cockrum Tried to Bring Home a Pit Bulldog, or What His Daddy Said to Him That Day	421
	Rhapsody for the Good Night: Christmas Eve '94	422
	About the Author	433