Poems by Charles Darling

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hyperlinks at the end of each poem will take you to the previous or subsequent poem as well as to this Table of Contents.

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PART I: IN MY FATHER'S STUDY

• Cows
• In Certain Lights
• Stick-Figures
• Willow-Ware
• In My Father's Study
• Mrs. Hyde, Fourth Hour, Eleventh Grade, English Honors
• On Not Renting Shane
• The Players
• 1952
• At the County Fair, 1956
• On Trifles
• On Discovering Program Notes for My Mother's Recital, Dated May 2, 1929
• Night-Riding in the Season of Goat's Thorn
• Nostalgia
• Vacations with Father
• The Walkers
• Looking for Wildflowers
• Dahlias in Time of Drought
• Tying Knots
• One-On-One
• Last Race at Quinsigamond
• The Bird-Carver
• For Maria Oneto
• In Mid-October, On First Noticing the Absence of Summer
• Saturday Morning with Mrs. Wash
• Three Ways to Remember
• "None but the Lonely Heart"
• The Body Ash Aubade

PART II: THE SAINTS OF DIMINISHED CAPACITY

• The Saints of Diminished Capacity
• The Boss-Frog
• Dog Years
• Undivided Attention
• Skipping a Stone on Water
• Easter at the Nursing Home
• Illustrated Life of Jesus
• The High-School Band Director Conducts The Grand Canyon Suite
• The Magician's Assistant
• The Husband Raking Leaves in Mid-November
• At the Airport Baggage Claim
• The Last Will of Mad Anthony Wayne: His Bones
• The Loneliness of Inanimate Objects
• Things in This Mirror Are Closer Than They Seem
• Sleepwalker
• "Sumptuous Destitution"
• Granville, New York: The Museum of Natural History
• In the Time Before Names
• July 11, 1864
• The Bouncer
• Among the Roofbeams: A Meditation Upon Fiberglass
  
  
  

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