Harvest time : poetry / Martin Willitts Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willitts, Martin, Jr., author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

91 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cumberland, ME : Deerbrook Editions, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I

Harvest Time

Simple Things

Roadside Vegetable Stand

The Sounds Water Makes

Listening

The Workweek Never Ends

In the Cornfield

Spring at the Farm

Laundry Hanging Day

Goose Feathers and Farm Implements

At Five, I learned the Purpose of Life

Waiting during Summer Solstice

Working on My Grandparents' Farm

It's All a Matter of Perspective

She Loves You, Ya Ya Ya

II

Barn Swallows

Farming in Late Summer

Barn Owl

When It Becomes Quieter

Knowing the Answer

Milking the Moment

Quiet

Hunted and Hunter

Cow Barn

Horse in a Field

Shoeing Horses

Handwritten Songs

There is Changing Rain

Murmuring

Geese in Patterns

Milking

Seen and Not Seen

The Serenade

Nighthawks

Four Blue Horses

A Horse Dreams

Horse Training

Shooting the Field Horse

III

When a Person Carries Darkness

Goose Boy

Wait

Listening to a Handloom

My Neighbor Tells About Hard Decisions

The Silence Can Speak

Subtle Voices

When to Give Up

Plowing in Rain

Acres of Sleeping

My Grandfather Taught Me How to Make Fire

Blacksmithing

When Light Reaches Us

The Way the World Begins and Ends

Grandfather Clock

Soon

Geese Returning

The Way It Was and Still Is

End of an Era

After My Grandparents Lost Their Farm

Silence Has Its Own Language

Acknowledgments.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781734388473

1734388471

OCLC:

1256450690

Publisher Number:

99988778887