Contents

1. Title Page
2. Note to Reader
3. Sleeping in the Cross Breeze
4. WIND
5. Decoys
6. Boxing
7. Loneliness
8. Perfume
9. Dawn in Erie, Pennsylvania
10. Wind
11. Helping
12. Friendship
13. Perigee
14. Passing
15. Take It
16. Nothing to Declare
17. Ending
18. Rain
19. The Commute
20. Piano
21. Signs
22. Saturday
23. Night Train
24. The Heat Is Coming
25. Windward
26. Yard Dogs
27. Dream
28. Burning the Days
29. Sailing
30. Quarantine
31. Airless
32. TREES
33. Shipbuilding
34. Singing
35. The Language of Trees
36. Wood
37. Among the Trees
38. Still
39. Show
40. The Secret Country
41. Borrowed Finery
42. Icicle
43. Centuries in the Woods
44. Exile
45. The Trees of City Hall
46. Windbreak
47. Dusk
48. Colors
49. Receiving
50. Without
51. The Green Tram
52. Fables
53. The Red Umbrella
54. Voices
55. About the Author
56. Books by John Freeman
57. Acknowledgments
58. Copyright
59. Special Thanks