WHEN ELEPHANTS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED:
Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year

A collection of poems by Ray Bradbury. 

CONTENTS:

• Remembrance 
• Pretend at Being Blind, Which Calls Truth Near 
• The Boys Across the Street Are Driving My Young Daughter Mad 
• Old Ahab's Friend, and Friend to Noah, Speaks His Peace 
• Darwin, the Curious 
• Darwin, in the Fields 
• Darwin, Wandering Home at Dawn 
• Evidence 
• Telling Where the Sweet Gums Are 
• Emily Dickinson, Where Are You? Herman Melvill Called Your Name Last Night in His Sleep! 
• O Give a Fig for Newton, Praise for Him! 
• I Was the Last, the Very Last 
• Man Is the Animal That Cries 
• N 
• Air to Lavoisier 
• Women Know Themselves; All Men Wonder 
• Death in Mexico 
• All Flesh Is One; What Matter Scores? 
• The Machines, Beyond Shylock 
• That Beast upon the Wire 
• Christ, Old Student in a New School 
• This Time of Kites 
• If You Will Wait Just Long Enough, All Goes 
• For a Daughter, Traveling 
• Old Mars, Then Be a Hearth to Us 
• The Thing That Goes By Night: The Self That Lazes Sun 
• Groon 
• That Woman on the Lawn 
• A Train Station Sign Viewed from an Ancient Locomotive Passing Through Long after Minight 
• Please to Remember the Fifth of November: A Birthday Poem for Susan Marguerite 
• That Is Our Eden's Spring, Once Promised 
• The Fathers and Sons Banquet 
• Touch your Solitude to Mine 
• God Is a Child; Put Toys in the Tomb 
• Ode to Electric Ben 
• Some Live like Lazarus 
• These Unsparked Flints, These Uncut Gravestone Brides 
• And This Did Dante Do 
• You Can Go Home Again 
• And Dark Our Celebration Was 
• Mrs. Harriet Hadden Atwood, Who Played the Piano for Thomas A. Edison for the World's First Phonograph Record, Is Dead at 105 
• What Seems a Balm Is Salt to Ancient Wounds 
• Here All Beautifully Collides 
• God for a Chimney Sweep 
• To Prove That Cowards Do Speak Best and True and Well 
• I, Tom, and My Electric Gran 
• Boys Are Always Running Somewhere: A Poem 
• O to Be a Boy in a Belfry 
• If I Were Epitaph 
• If Only We Had Taller Been 

PUBLISHING INFORMATION:

• First Edition: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973 (cloth)