Contents

Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing

Winter

The Season of Sleeping

Praise Song for the Coming Budburst

First Bird

How to Catch a Fox

The Bird Feeder

The Winter Garden

Praise Song for the Praise Song of a Song Sparrow in Winter

Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down

A Seed in Darkest Winter

Praise Song for the Dog’s Marvelous Nose

Done with Waiting

It’s a Mystery

Praise Song for Mole Hands in Coyote Scat

The Crow Family

The Knothole

Wild Joy

Ephemeral

Praise Song for a Spring I Was Not Alive to See

Spring

The Season of Waking

Who Will Mourn Them When They Are Gone?

Praise Song for the Maple Tree’s First Green

The Names of Flowers

The Beautiful World beside the Broken One

Wildflowers at My Feet and Songbirds in My Trees

Praise Song for the Killdeer on the School Softball Field

Metamorphosis

Praise Song for the Alien in the Shade Garden

Hide and Seek

My Life in Mice

Praise Song for the Redbird Who Has Lost His Crest and the Skink Who Has Lost His Tail

The Bobcat Next Door

And Then There Were None

Dust to Dust

Praise Song for Solomon’s Seal

An Acolyte of Benign Neglect

Praise Song for All the Beginnings

The Grief of Lost Time

Praise Song for the Baby Chickadees

Summer

The Season of Singing

Praise Song for the Skink Who Has Gone to Ground

Thirty-Four Is Tadpoles

Praise Song for the Red Fox, Screaming in the Driveway

Loving the Unloved Animals

Pickers

Of Berries and Death

The Teeming Season

Praise Song for the Carpenter Bees Eating Our Fence to Ruin

Kept Safe in the Womb of the World

Reverse Nesting

The Spider in My Life

Praise Song for What Hides in Plain Sight

My Life in Rabbits

Praise Song for the First Red Leaf of the Black Gum Tree

Dislocation

Praise Song for the Ragged Season

The World Is a Collage

Praise Song for the Holes in Pawpaw Leaves

Imagination

Praise Song for Fingers That Do Not Form a Fist

Fall

The Season of Making Ready

Praise Song for a Clothesline in Drought

Autumn Light

Flower of Dreams

Praise Song for the Back Side of the Sign

The Last Hummingbird

The Butterfly Cage

Praise Song for Sleeping Bees

Holiness

Praise Song for Forgetfulness

Because I Can’t Stop Drinking in the Light

The Lazarus Snail

Praise Song for a Larger Home

How to Rake Leaves on a Windy Day

The Mast Year

And Now the Light Is Failing

Praise Song for Dead Leaves

Ode to a Dark Season

The Thing with Feathers

Author’s Note

Author’s Acknowledgments

Artist’s Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Artist

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