Ted Kooser
Bio
Sure Signs (1980)
Selecting a Reader
First Snow
An Old Photograph
The Constellation Orion
The Salesman
Old Soldier’s Home
Fort Robinson
How to Foretell a Change in the Weather
Snow Fence
In an Old Apple Orchard
After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine Cabinet
Carrie
For a Friend
Five P.M.
Abandoned Farmhouse
At the Bait Stand
The Widow Lester
The Red Wing Church
One World at a Time (1985)
Flying at Night
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
In January, 1962
The Fan in the Window
Daddy Longlegs
Goodbye
Laundry
Ladder
Walking at Noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska
At Nightfall
Cleaning a Bass
A Letter
The Voyager 2 Satellite
As the President Spoke
The Urine Specimen
Porch Swing in September
The Blizzard Voices (1986)
A Woman’s Voice (1)
A Man’s Voice (2)
A Woman’s Voice (3)
A Man’s Voice (4)
A Woman’s Voice (5)
A Man’s Voice (6)
A Woman’s Voice (7)
A Man’s Voice (8)
Weather Central (1994)
Étude
A Finding
An Elegy
Snakeskin
A Letter in October
Four Secretaries
Shoes
City Limits
Site
Surveyors
Another Story
Five-Finger Exercise
Sparklers
Old Dog in March
The Great-Grandparents
Weather Central
Winter Morning Walks - <small><small>One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison </small></small>(2000)
Epigraph
November 9
November 10
November 12
November 18
November 29
December 2
December 14
December 20
December 22
January 5
January 7
January 12
January 17
January 19
January 31
February 16
February 18
March 2
March 7
March 12
March 20
Delights and Shadows (2004)
Walking on Tiptoe
Tattoo
At the Cancer Clinic
Student
Gyroscope
New Cap
Cosmetics Department
Biker
The Old People
In January
A Rainy Morning
Mourners
Skater
The China Painters
Memory
Ice Cave
Mother
A Jar of Buttons
Dishwater
Depression Glass
Zenith
The Necktie
Applesauce
Creamed Corn
Flow Blue China
Father
Pearl
Old Cemetery
A Winter Morning
Bank Fishing for Bluegills
Turkey Vultures
Pegboard
At the County Museum
Casting Reels
Horse
Praying Hands
Lobocraspis griseifusa
Home Medical Dictionary
In the Hall of Bones
A Jacquard Shawl
Telescope
A Box of Pastels
Old Lilacs
Grasshoppers
The Beaded Purse
That Was I
Screech Owl
A Spiral Notebook
The Early Bird
Starlight
On the Road
A Washing of Hands
After Years
Garage Sale
Surviving
A Glimpse of the Eternal
Tectonics
A Happy Birthday
Four Civil War Paintings by Winslow Homer
1. SHARPSHOOTER
2. THE BRIGHT SIDE
3. PRISONERS FROM THE FRONT
4. THE VETERAN IN A NEW FIELD
Valentines (2008)
A Heart of Gold
Barn Owl
Song of the Ironing Board
For You, Friend
A Map of the World
This Paper Boat
Splitting an Order (2014)
Splitting an Order
Bad News
Swinging from Parents
At Arby’s, at Noon
Changing Drivers
Two
Opossum
A Visitant at Five A.M.
A Jonathan in Spring
Sundial
Lantern
A Mouse in a Trap
Zinc Lid
At a Kitchen Table
A Morning in Early Spring
Sleep Apnea
Deep Winter
New Moon
Painting the Barn
Awakening
At Home (2017)
Road Kill
Locust Trees in Late May
The Sick Bat
Barred Owl
Croquet Ball
Nine Wild Turkeys
A Walk with My Dog
Meteor Shower
New Poems
Sewing Machine
Putz
Memorial Day
A Bottle Collection
The Clipper Ship
Blackout
Goldfish
The Color Slide
Post Office
Ames By-Products
Helmet
By Flowing Water
An Antique Teacup
Parents
Death of a Dog
A Line in the Rain
A February Walk
In Early April
Roadside
Three Steps in the Grass
Snapping Turtle
A Summer Afternoon with Clouds
Nash
A Marriage
An Appearance
Walking in Fog beside a Lake
The Constellation
Turning Up the Thermostat
A Yellow Rope
Hoarfrost
Moon Shadows
December Morning
A Man on a Bridge
Arabesque
On a Windy Day
People We Will Never See Again
Passing Through
Three Shadows
A Long Midwinter Walk
Waxer
Vocalist - Jack Knutson
Poem Source: Delights and Shadows - Copper Canyon Press - 2004
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