Contents
I
Tosca Lived a Good Life
In the Belly of the Whale
A New Toolbox
Recent Blood Tests Are Indicative of a Cancer Recurrence
What I Lost That Day in Gifford, Pennsylvania
No More Words
What Meaning
Not a Fairy-Tale Ending
Dear Becky
I Drowned
Half-Found John Muir Poem #4
River of Mercy
II
Winter Rain
Half-Found John Muir Poem #5
Spargania magnoliata
On a Summer Day after My Son and I Witness a Young Man’s Drowning
What Is Gathered and What Is Lost
Walking Home
More Ache than the Sea
The Anchorage Jail
Emergency Room, Wednesday 4pm
Inside Out
His Sadness Is a Lake
These Mountains Are Long-Extinct Volcanoes
Near Power Creek: After a Marriage
Looking out the Window on a Winter Morning
Still
Anniversary: My Parents’ Marriage
Redpolls in Winter
III
Mythography of the Wolf’s Sorrow or An Alternative Rendering of the Romulus and Remus Legend
Trinity
Tosca, Act V
Here the Promise
Only Winter
Reincarnate
I Bow
Kashin-Beck Disease Is Endemic to Tibet
Who Will Speak of Lhasa?
Faith
All Things Are Transient
Dr. Anderson Called and the News Isn’t Good
This Body Is Baggage I’m Not Yet Ready to Leave Behind
IV
This Is a Raging Wind
Since June
Walk on Water
Half-Found John Muir Poem #1
Ge(ne)ology
Half-Found John Muir Poem #2
On a Summer Day
Sun like a Daffodil
A Light in Winter
Half-Found John Muir Poem #3
Remission
Half-Found Li Shang-yin Poem
Tomorrow Is a White Flag
Unravel
Sky Burial
Notes
Acknowledgments