Contents
I.
The Silo
Of Pink
Briar Rose
A Brief History of Silk
The Trees
The Girl with No Hands
Drought
Neither Have I Wings
Apart from Me, and Still
The Kingdom
Unknown Natural Forces
The Tool Shed
China Rabbit
Each
Messenger
Not All the Animals Sleep
At Cape Henlopen
II.
The Far Field
The Hedge
Notebook of Air
That Far North
Litany (Paulownia)
The Guardians
Not All the Winds Have Names
A Separate Bird Each Time (Origami)
Litany (Easter)
Pure
Suminagashi
Sapling
Love Poem with No Mountains in Sight
Unbidden
III.
Looking Back (The Far Field)
Self-Portrait as Lost Earring
Birthday
Litany (California)
Small Music
The Blind
Litany (Over Eastern Washington)
The Field
Litany (Boreal)
Inverting the Winter
Because They Mostly Appear at Dusk
Talisman
Kittatinny
Owl
Coracle Means a Small Vessel, a Boat
Body of Water
Nightjar
Notes
Acknowledgments