Bucolics

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all. that bare branch that branch made black by the rain the silver raindrop hanging from the black branch Boss I like that black branch I like that shiny raindrop Boss tell me if I'm wrong but it makes me think you're looking right at me now isn't that a lark for me to think you look that way upside down like a tree frog Boss I'm not surprised at all I wouldn't doubt it for a minute you're always up to something I'll say one thing you're all right all right you are even when you're hanging Boss

Boss of the grassy green	p. 1
Did you ever have a nickname Boss	p. 3
The night is trotting toward me Boss	p. 4
What color is your collar Boss	p. 5
You're the hay maker Boss	p. 7
Do you get happy Boss do you	p. 8
Do you have a table	p. 9
O Boss sometimes you take it all	p. 10
Are you ever sorry Boss ever	p. 11
You spread the nighttime Boss	p. 12
I told that old dog he	p. 13
Why Boss why do the days drift by	p. 14
Are you ever in my chest Boss	p. 15
If you had a feed sack Boss what	p. 16
How big is your hand Boss hold it up	p. 17
The light inside the shadow how	p. 18
I like the weaving bees I like	p. 19
There was a fox Boss in my dream	p. 20
You swirl the dirt like nobody's business	p. 21
I've got butterflies Boss	p. 22
You make it all seem easy Boss	p. 23
Yes I've tried to hide my face	p. 24
Did you pull yourself up
By your bootstraps Boss	p. 26
I'm sure you've got a sweet spot	p. 27
I guess you've got a lot	p. 28
You toss the stars like clover seed	p. 29
That bare branch that branch made black	p. 30
The two of us we're cut	p. 31
Boss of the blue sky boss	p. 32
You move in every direction	p. 33
Did you teach the woodpecker how	p. 34
The birds the bugs even the trees Boss	p. 35
When you push the clouds
So close together Boss	p. 36
The river looks so level Boss	p. 37
Is that you Boss is that	p. 38
Of course I like the sun	p. 40
Do you have a busy season Boss	p. 41
I'm happy Boss happy as a bird	p. 43
Did you boss the horse against the barn	p. 44
Is there another sky besides	p. 46
The field is flatter than	p. 48
Unless my nose is itchy Boss	p. 49
If I say I've sprung the spring in my step	p. 50
I wonder Boss in all	p. 51
Before my eye was burning like	p. 52
The way that buzzard hops it makes	p. 53
I put my face against	p. 54
When I chop wood you warm me twice	p. 55
O boss of ashes boss of dust	p. 56
I've got a picture of you Boss	p. 57
I got up early Boss the moon	p. 58
Your other favorite word	p. 59
I'm like an oak tree Boss O	p. 61
You windy blowhard Boss	p. 62
Do you put your trousers on one leg	p. 64
Are you against me Boss	p. 65
Say what have you got underneath	p. 66
Guess what Boss I'm not even	p. 67
When I see the shadow of the hawk	p. 68
Can I say whew to you now Boss	p. 69
You let out light to tease the shadows	p. 70
Listen Boss don't think that I	p. 72
My hay day Boss is every day	p. 73
If I didn't know you better Boss	p. 74
The first hawk you hung up in the sky	p. 76
You know that little song	p. 77
It doesn't bother me Boss to have	p. 78
Is your barn stuffed to the roof beam	p. 79
Beyond the field this time	p. 80
Would you trade hee-haws with a crow	p. 82
Does an old dog toll beside you Boss	p. 84
You leave a little night inside	p. 86
Would you be lonesome if I swam	p. 87
We've always been like this	p. 89
You raise the hawk you hoist the crows	p. 90
Thank you for the leaf Boss	p. 92
Am I your helper Boss or am	p. 93
I've got one thing to say to you	p. 94
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