A Place on Earth (Port William)

BOOK: A Place on Earth (Port William)
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WENDELL BERRY

The Collected Stories

Jayber Crow

The Memory of Old Jack

A Place on Earth

Three Novellas

Also by Wendell Berry
FICTION

The Discovery of Kentucky

Fidelity

Nathan Coulter

A Place on Earth

Remembering

Two More Stories of the Port William Membership

Watch with Me

The Wild Birds

A World Lost

POETRY

The Broken Ground

Clearing

Collected Poems: 1957-1982

The Country of Marriage

Entries

Farming: A Hand Book

Findings

Openings

A Part

Sabbaths

Sayings and Doings

The Selected Poems

A Timbered Choir

Traveling at Home (with prose)

The Wheel

ESSAYS

Another Turn of the Crank

A Continuous Harmony

The Gift of Good Land

Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work

The Hidden Wound

Home Economics

Recollected Essays: 1965-1980

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community

Standing by Words

The Unforseen Wilderness

The Unsettling of America

What Are People For?

WENDELL BERRY

 
A Place on Earth
[revision]

For Mary and Chuck
For Katie, Virginia, and Tanya
For Den and Billie
For Emily and Marshall

 
Contents

PART ONE

1

The Empty Store
5

Missing
8

The Card Game
12

A Dream of Absence
14

A Departure i6

Rain, Rain
17

I Can Do It by Myself
19

A Voice from the Distance
22

A Little Shift in the Wind
23

2

Port William
26

Company
27

Like a Bird
32

The Carpenter Shop
33

An Old Wound
34

A Pretty Good Boy
36

Feeding
37

3

The Last
40

The Hotel
48

The Grass May Grow a Mile
56

Images Like Seeds
59

Waiting
61

4

The Barber's Calling
63

Talk
67

A New Calling
73

Light and Warmth
79

5

Keeping Watch
87

The Sheep Barn
88

PART TWO

6

A Dark Morning
93

A Difference Made
94

A Comforter
95

The Sanctuary ioi

A Knack for the Here 1o3

7

Born a Idiot, Educated a Fool log

The Farm in the Valley
112

Flood
115

Where Are You?
120

Coming to Rest
125

A Vigil
126

The Keeping of the Place
128

Changed
131

8

Something Ain't Right
133

Never What It Was
144

Some Cleaning Up
147

A Pleasing Shadow
151

For Someone Who Will Come Later
153

A Spring Night
155

Green Coming Strong
157

PART THREE

9

Look a Yonder
163

The Bridge
165

A Guest at a Strange Table
170

10

The Wanting of What May Be Lost
176

Something in the World to Do
186

A Pleasant Place to Sit
193

11

Green Pasture
196

Caught
198

Daylight
200

A Birth
217

PART FOUR

12

Going Down
229

Dangerous Ground 23o

He's Dead
235

13

Hard at It
237

A Widow Alone
239

Haunted
243

14

A Famous Escapade
244

The Presence of Grief
248

A Ramble 25o

A Result
258

The Sense of Time Passing
259

What Is Left
260

15

That's Fine
263

Another Result
271

16

Six Feet
274

It's Over!
277

Redounding and Sublime
281

A Passing Dirge
301

Among the Dead
304

PART FIVE

Straightening Up
311

A Homecoming
315

Into the Woods
317

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