CONTENTS

NEW POEMS
(2004 – 2005)

Children, It’s Spring

Work, Sometimes

First Happenings

Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones

Holding Benjamin

White Heron Rises Over Blackwater

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, but
the Attention that Comes First

Black Bear in the Orchard

What Is There Beyond Knowing

Truro, the Blueberry Fields

Climbing Pinnacle

Mountain Lion on East Hill Road,
Austerlitz, N.Y.

Of What Surrounds Me

The Faces of Deer

The Poet With His Face in His Hands

Over the Hill She Came

Song for Autumn

In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind

What the Body Says

The Owl Who Comes

The Cricket and the Rose

Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night (Percy Three)

What I Have Learned So Far

FROM Blue Iris
(2004)

The Bleeding-heart

Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater

How Would You Live Then?

Old Goldenrod at Field’s Edge

FROM Why I Wake Early
(2004)

Why I Wake Early

Freshen the Flowers, She Said

The Poet Goes to Indiana

The Snow Cricket

The Old Poets of China

Some Things, Say the Wise Ones

Song of the Builders

The Soul at Last

Lingering in Happiness

FROM Owls and Other Fantasies
(2003)

Such Singing in the Wild Branches

While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer,
the Meadowlark Begins to Sing

Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond

FROM Winter Hours
(1999)

Three Prose Poems

FROM West Wind
(1997)

Seven White Butterflies

The Dog Has Run Off Again

Am I Not Among the Early Risers

Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith

West Wind, poem 1

West Wind, poem 2

West Wind, poem 3

West Wind, poem 7

West Wind, poem 8

West Wind, poem 9

Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long
Black Branches

FROM White Pine
(1994)

Beside the Waterfall

In Pobiddy, Georgia

Morning Glories

Owl in the Black Oaks

I Found a Dead Fox

Rumor of Moose in the Long Twilight of
New Hampshire

Early Morning, New Hampshire