New Poems (2004 - 2005)
North Country 3
Everything 4
Children, It's Spring 5
Work, Sometimes 6
Hum 7
First Happenings 8
Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones 9
Holding Benjamin 11
White Heron Rises Over Blackwater 13
The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, but the Attention that Comes First 15
Black Bear in the Orchard 16
Honey Locust 18
Percy (One) 19
What Is There Beyond Knowing 20
Ravens 22
The Measure 23
Truro, the Blueberry Fields 24
Oxygen 25
Climbing Pinnacle 26
Mountain Lion on East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y. 28
Circles 30
Tiger Lilies 31
Of What Surrounds Me 32
The Faces of Deer 33
Terns 34
Wild, Wild 36
The Poet With His Face in His Hands 37
Over the Hill She Came 38
Reckless Poem 40
The Book 42
Meanwhile 43
Song for Autumn 44
In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind 45
Patience 46
Percy (Two) 48
What the Body Says 49
Fireflies 50
The Owl Who Comes 52
Lead 54
The Cricket and the Rose 55
Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Percy Three) 56
What I Have Learned So Far 57
From Blue Iris (2004)
The Bleeding-heart 61
Touch-me-nots 62
Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater 64
How Would You Live Then? 66
Old Goldenrod at Field's Edge 67
From Why I Wake Early (2004)
Why I Wake Early 71
Bone 72
Freshen the Flowers, She Said 75
Beans 76
The Poet Goes to Indiana 77
The Snow Cricket 79
This World 81
Snow Geese 82
Bear 84
Many Miles 85
The Old Poets of China 86
White-eyes 87
Some Things, Say the Wise Ones 89
Mindful 90
Song of the Builders 92
Daisies 93
The Soul at Last 94
Lingering in Happiness 95
From Owls and Other Fantasies (2003)
The Dipper 99
Spring 101
Goldfinches 103
Such Singing in the Wild Branches 104
While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing 106
Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond 108
From Winter Hours (1999)
Three Prose Poems 113
Moss 115
The Whistler 116
The Storm 117
From West Wind (1997)
Seven White Butterflies 121
At Round Pond 122
The Dog Has Run Off Again 123
Am I Not Among the Early Risers 124
Stars 126
Forty Years 128
Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith 130
Dogs 132
West Wind, poem 1 135
West Wind, poem 2 136
West Wind, poem 3 137
West Wind, poem 7 138
West Wind, poem 8 139
West Wind, poem 9 140
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches 141
From White Pine (1994)
Work 147
May 148
Beside the Waterfall 149
Yes! No! 151
In Pobiddy, Georgia 152
Mockingbirds 154
Grass 156
Morning Glories 157
August 158
Owl in the Black Oaks 159
The Gesture 161
I Found a Dead Fox 162
Toad 164
Rumor of Moose in the Long Twilight of New Hampshire 165
The Sea Mouse 167
William 169
Early Morning, New Hampshire 170
Wings 172
March 173
I Looked Up 174
White Pine 175