Contents
I. Raiding the Bees
Raiding the Bees
To Hear and Hear
Frog
Sugaring
The Metaphysics of Husbandry
Whales
The Birds
Kitty
Yellow Jackets
Shaman
A Day in the Life
Catch
Field Work
Sighting
December 10
The Sting
Cave Text
The Overstory
From the Beginning On
The Fox
II. Sleeping Lessons
Sleeping Lessons
III. Time Was
Dusk
Night Mowing
Hammock
The First
Margaret Miller’s Arm
The Field
The Pain That Is So Great
Anniversary
July 30
Bourbon Street
Through a Train Window
Gatsby Presents His Case to the Sport of Heaven
Dinner with Charlie
I Get Up When I’m Dead
First Touch
From the Curriculum of a Guilty Man
An Incident at the Catholic Worker
Inside the Fire
The Din of Ringers
Houses
Time Was
The Dolphin
Alibi
The Present
The Thin Time
The Last Judgment
The Crippling Field
Harold Bloom
I Stand Beneath the Mountain with an Illiterate Heart
In the Eternity That Was a Day
Our Eyes Are Sweet, Obedient Dogs
Tree of Wisdom
I See Them Now
Acknowledgments