Contents
from Calling Myself Home (1978)
Turtle
Hackberry Trees
Red Clay
Calling Myself Home
Finding Beads
Going to Town
Stolen Trees
Crows
Remembering the Lightning
Celebration: Birth of a Colt
Heritage
Thanksgiving
Man in the Moon
Fisherman
Arrowhead
Leaving
Coyote
After Fish
Blessing
The River Calls Them
Rain
Song for My Name
Vapor Cave
from Eclipse (1983)
Daughters, I Love You
Disappearances
X-ray of My Daughter
Idaho Falls, 1961
A Prayer for Men and Women
The Women Are Grieving
The Women Speaking
Who Will Speak?
V. Who Will Speak?
Train’s Passage
Morning’s Dance
from Seeing through the Sun (1985)
Seeing through the Sun
The Truth Is
Porcupine on the Road to the River
Mississippi Trees
Heartland
The Pond
Through the Fog
Evolution in Light and Water
Eclipse II
Friday Night
The Other Side
Night and Day
Woman Chopping Wood
Watch Me
To Light
Turning
Territory of the Night
from Savings (1988)
Saving
All Winter
Me, Crow, Fish, and the Magi
The New Apartment: Minneapolis
First Light
What Has Happened to These Working Hands?
Pillow
Breaking
Elk Song
The Lost Girls
Offering
Workday
The Other Voices
The Truth of the Matter
Gamble
The Hands
The History of Fire
What I Think
Knife
Neighbors
Get Up, Go AWOL!
Scorpion
Those Who Thunder
What Gets In
from The Book of Medicines (1993)
The History of Red
Fat
Hunger
Bear Fat
Return: Buffalo
Harvesters of Night and Water
Bear
Mountain Lion
Crossings
Crow Law
Skin
Map
Naming the Animals
The Ritual Life of Animals
Tracking
Milk
The Alchemists
The Grandmother Songs
Chambered Nautilus
Carry
Skin Dreaming
Partings
Nothing
Great Measures
Other, Sister, Twin
Flood: The Sheltering Tree
The Origins of Corn
from Rounding the Human Corners (2008)
Eucalyptus
The Way In
Humble
Gentling the Human
Mysteries of the Bed
Rapture
The Small
Awake
Light
In Time
We Will Feed You
Loneliness
The Heron
Enigma
Alone
Anatomy
Whale Rising
On the Small Toe
The Radiant
The Quiet Watching
Winter Solstice
Turtle Watchers
Skin Boats
The Creations of Water and Light
Wild
Moving the Woodpile
Affinity: Mustang
Emergence
Deer Dance
Dimensions
Children of Light
The Night Constant
Secret
The Thief of Light
Fox
The Hidden
Shine
At the Water
Hearts
Reveal
Call
Indios (2012)
Introduction
Game
Water
Chambers
Robes
In Here
Dark. Sweet. (NEW POEMS)
1. THE UNSEEN
The Unseen
Bringers of Happiness
To Be Held
Maps
Spirit Bone
I Live in the World of Breaking Trees
Mayflies
The Directions
Tree Woman
Not So Very Long Ago
Valley of the Horses
Ice Storm
About
This Old Woman
Mercy, Live Here
May the Unseen World
2. HISTORY
History
Lightning
Courthouse Justice
Original Sin
The Daughter of Eve
Memorial Day
The Plenty Table
The Eyes
Justice
Greed
This Lake, a Flooded World
Song for the Turtles of the Gulf
Anatomy of the Heart
Home in the Woods
Mercy, the Word
Walking with My Father
Trail of Tears: Our Removal
3. SWEETNESS
Dark. Sweet. The Full Eclipse.
The Fruit Trees
Sweetness
The Willow
Birthday Morning
New Wine
River Crossing: Such Sweetness Is Friendship
Season of the Butterflies
Language of the Frogs
The Petrified Steps
Innocence
Allegiances: The Sandhill Cranes
Elemental
Old Ocean, She
4. THE REMEDIES
Transformations: Winter Count
Wicking
The Deer Mothers
The Remedies
My Child
To Be Held
Our Song, Winter
The Singers
Artifact: The Mica Hand
Ceremony for the Seeds
Weave
First Language: Sandhill Cranes
Australia: The Women’s Lake
This America
The Eyes of the Animals
Landing
The Bent Branches
After Silence: Return
Acknowledgments