Acknowledgments
Introduction by Ted Kooser
Selections from Bonfire
April
Red Fox
Abstract
Wild Apples
The Girl and the Horses
Daylilies
The Wandering Sky
Broom
Skim Milk
Radish
Radiator
Missed Bus
Duluth, Minnesota
Blue Moon
The Gelding
Dragonfly
Rain
Toward Dusk
Peonies
Amaryllis
Christmas Tree
January
Bonfire
Ski Tracks
Selections from Hartley Field
The Coin Behind Your Ear
The Ventriloquist
Butter
Peaches
Red Rover
Jump Rope
Horses in Spring
Summer Night
Lemon
Long Nights
Postcard: Busy Clarence Town Harbor on a Mail Boat Day
Honesty
Black and White Photograph
Memorial Day at the Lake
The Midwife
The Exchange
Children Near the Water
A Field of Barley
Checkers
So Like Her Father
The Hammer
Tag
Late September
New Snow
Grown Children
Heart Surgery
All Saints’ Day
Christmas Fable
After Us
Hartley Field
Selections from On Speaking Terms
First Snow
Monopoly
Nothing
Tracks in the Snow
The Accordion
Scrabble
Directions
Lipstick
Everything Free
Fishing on Isabella Lake
Garlic
Rags
Lady
Confessional Poem
Walking Distance
The Splits
Buttercups
Closest to the Sky
Comb
Umbrella
Picture Yourself
The Death of My Father
A Sighting
Green Tent
Pumpkin
A Random Gust from the North
Musical Chairs
A Parting
Pecans
Old Snow
Pickles
Coloring Book
Blue Ink
Six Months After My Father’s Death
Honey
Leftovers
Ice Out
New Poems
Part One
Garter Snake
Pollen
Rival Gardens
The Summerhouse
Polygamy
The Neighbor’s Pond
An Ordinary Crisis
Mysterious Neighbors
Catbird
Root Words
Rain Collection
Blue Flags
“Golden Glow”
Blackbirds at Dusk
First House
Last Star
Part Two
Used Book
Ghost Town
When I Was a Boy
Audience
John Q. Public
A Collection of Near Misses
Adaptation
Plein Air
The Death of the Battery
Girdle
Parts per Million
Mrs. God
Genesis, Cont.
Day of Rest
Business
First Love
Part Three
Artificial Tears
I Heard You Come In
Pavement Ends
The Shoes of the Dead
A Last Time for Everything
Practice
Phoebe
They Live with Us
Recalled to Life
Walleye
Wild Asters
Brave Rabbits
Brave Rabbits, a Second Look
A Marsh at Twilight
The Second Half of the Night
Cabbage Moth
Garden Gloves
Also by This Gardener