Contents
The Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park
Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River
At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts
Blueberry Barren at Dusk
Eastport, Maine
Star Marrow
First Anna’s Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland
Statue of a Union Soldier
A Ladder of Cranes
White-tailed Buck in a Pasture
Winter Thaw
Glass Eels
Po Chü-I’s Cook
Mozart’s Starling
On the Death of Seamus Heaney
Innisfree, Western Alberta
Mundare, Alberta
The Wolf of Gubbio
Gray Wolf
Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf
Killing the Kenai Peninsula’s Wolves
Fall Raspberries
Fireweed
Insomnia
To the Chinese Poets
Black Spruce
Fall Migration
To the Poet John Haines on His Eighty-fifth Birthday
Resolution Park
The Man from Here
Galaxies
The Church at Ninilchik, Alaska
Swans on Cook Inlet
Solitude
After Walking in Rain on a Sunday Morning
Reading Li Bai While the Moon Rises
Magpie at Twilight
Looking at the Ferry Museum’s Salish Baskets
Starring, Western Alaska
The Loon at Shackford Head
Cow Moose and Magpie
Cloudberry Wine
Our Hand-carved Ornament of a Great Blue Heron
President Harding’s Pullman Car, Fairbanks, Alaska
Westchester Lagoon
The Mist Net
Reading Housman’s “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”
A Needle’s Eye
A Little Poem for the Stars
Alder Catkins
Alder Catkins after Rain
Poem Written on the Winter Solstice
On Being Asked to Write a Poem about the Moon
European Starling
American Dipper
Independence Mine, August
The Advent Bear