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The favorite poem for 2006,
Forty-six Poems for Nico Wind,
is "In the Nursing Home," by Jane Kenyon.
 
 

IN THE NURSING HOME

 

 

She is like a horse grazing

a hill pasture that someone makes

smaller by coming every night

to pull the fences in and in.

 

She has stopped running wide loops,

stopped even the tight circles.

She drops her head to feed; grass

is dust, and the creekbed’s dry.

 

Master, come with your light

halter.  Come and bring her in.

 

 

Kenyon, Jane

 

New and Selected Poems.  St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf.  1996.

 
 

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46 Poems for Nico Wind

 

 

1.  Approaching War, The – Robert Bly

2.  At Grass – Phillip Larkin and Anthony Thwiate

3.  At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal SchoolSherman Alexie

4.  Atavistic – Irene Kinney

5.  Ballad of M. T. Nutt and His Dog – Andrew Barton Paterson

6.  the bells of the Cherokee ponies – d. a. levy

7.  Color Breeder, The – Patti Leininger

8.  Demons – Alexander Pushkin

9.  Errata – Charles Simic

10.  Fast Rode the Knight – Stephen Crane

11.  Follower – Seamus Heaney

12.  Highwayman, The – Alfred Noyes

13.  Horse From Hell, The – Erica Mann Jong

14.  Horse Named Bill, A – Author Unknown

15.  Horses – David Ferry

16.  How Many Schemes May Die – Emily Dickinson

17.  In Fear of Harvests – James Wright

18.  In the Nursing Home – Jane Kenyon

19.  Life that tied too tight escapes, The – Emily Dickinson

20.  Long Race, The – Edwin Arlington Robinson

21.  Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota – James Wright

22.  Manners – Elizabeth Bishop

23.  Medley for Morin Khur – Paul Muldoon

24.  Mustang Sally!  Patricia Fritsche

25.  Other Nations: For Maxine Kumin – Kate Barnes

26.  Out of Sight – Andrew Barton Paterson

27.  Parable – Richard Wilbur

28.  Pegasus in Pound – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29.  Peggy – C. K. Williams

30.  Plowboy, The – Carl Sandburg

31.  Ponies – C. K. Williams

32.  Ponies and Cowboys – Patti Leininger

33.  Queen’s Horses Disappear on Peachtree Street – Leigh Kirkland

34.  Rainbow, the Mustang – Gary Bauder

35.  Remorse – Carl Sandburg

36.  Ride, The – Richard Wilbur

37.  Riding Wistful Horses – Alastair Adamson

38.  Rocking Horse Ride, The – Brian Murphy

39.  Shack Dye – Edgar Lee Masters

40.  Spartan Mother – Robert William Service

41.  There’s Another Blessed Horse Fell Down – Andrew Barton Paterson

42.  Thinking of a Friend at Night – Hermann Hesse

43.  Two Horses Playing in the Orchard – James Wright

44.  Vanishing Beauty – Linda K. Vasconceios

45. Winnie – Robert William Service

46.  Ye Carpette Knyghte – Lewis Carroll

 

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