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Susan Tichy's
Field Guide to the Birds
of

Lorine Niedecker's
Collected Works
edited by Jenny Penberthy
University of California Press, 2002

Mourning Dove Gull Rail Blackbirds Goose/Geese Owl Killdeer Goose/Geese Tit-wit Rose-breast[ed Grosbeak] Hummingbird Cuckoo Parakeets Sora Sora Pheasants Sandhill Crane Solitary Tattler Peewee Owl Peewee Ducks Waxwings Mourning Dove Gull Flamingo Robin Avocet Ducks Robin Starling Whooping Crane Cranes Seagull Sparrows Gulls Passenger pigeon Veery Mergansers Gulls Pigeon Canvasbacks Sora rail Hummingbird Solitary plover Pewee Woodcocks Yellow-head[ed] blackbirds Great blue heron Stone buntings Penguins Pigeons	Mourning Dove 23 When Ecstasy Is Inconvenient 25 Don't shoot the rail 92 To see the man who took care of our stock 103 To see the man who took care of our stock 103 A monster owl 103 Audubon 108 To a Maryland editor 110 Summer's away, I traded my chicks 111 Sunday's motor-cars 127 Lugubre for a child 128 If I were a bird 130 The elegant office girl 136 What bird would light 137 Nearly landless and on the way to water 138 Nearly landless and on the way to water 138 Thure Kumlien 145 Thure Kumlien 145 Adirondack Summer 151 Energy glows at the lips 162 On hearing the wood peewee 167 People, people 172 July, waxwings 174 Hear / where her snow-grave is 181 How white the gulls 184 Florida 192 Florida 193 To whom / can I leave 204 Early morning corn 206 The park "a darling walk for the mind" 212 The park "a darling walk for the mind" 212 Churchill's Death 219 A student 220 City Talk (I'm good for people) 222 Nothing to speak of 226 Lake Superior (Iron the common element) 232 Lake Superior (Wild Pigeon) 235 We are what the seas 240 Mergansers 246 Wintergreen Ridge 257 Wintergreen Ridge 257 Paean to Place 263 Paean to Place 263 Paean to Place 264 Paean to Place 265 Paean to Place 265 Paean to Place 266 Not all harsh sounds displease 271 Peace 290 His carpets flowered 294 Darwin 297 Darwin 298
Birds Birds Birds Chicks Birds Birds Birds Lice lithe pink bird Bird singing / flew Birds Wild bird Wild bird Fowl	Will you write me a Christmas poem? 38 Birds' mating flight 104 Audubon 107 Summer's away, I traded my chicks 111 On a row of cabins next my home 134 Shut up in woods 145 I rose from marsh mud 170 Lights, lifts 218 Bird singing 221 Young in Fall I said: the birds 231 Wintergreen Ridge 257 Wintergreen Ridge 257 Paean to Place 261
Feathers Birdhouse Feathers Flitter Delouse Probe sand Sit and sing Duck Pond Binoculars Eggs Bird Feeder Flyway Wingspread Fingers-flying-pinnae Flying Birdstart wingdrip Wing bone Bird dung	Fancy Another Day Gone 75 Ash woods, willow, close to shore 93 From my bed I see 104 If I were a bird 130 If I were a bird 130 If I were a bird 131 If I were a bird 131 For Paul 137 Before my own death is certified 138 Thure Kumlien 145 March [bird feeder's] 202 To whom / can I leave 204 As you know mind 206 Churchill's Death 219 Sky / in my favor 225 My Life by Water 238 Paean to Place 265 Darwin 298
Black Hawk Egg Harbor Flamingo-pink Eggs them on Water bird Sir Bird-White Peet-tweet girls No bird dawn Snipers a new kind of bird Warbled Flock of words	Black Hawk held: In reason 99 Coopered at Fish Creek 114 If I were a bird 130 High, lovely, light 131 To my pressure pump 201 Churchill's Death 219 I lost you to water, summer 227 I married 228 War 273 Waded watched warbled 288 A quiet flock 289

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