Contents
Foreword
I. Brief Disquisitions on Sturgeon, Foxes, Badgers, Trout, Mascots, Fishers, Bears, Squirrels, Dogs, Bobcats, Parrots, & the Bovine Population, Among Others of Our Astounding Neighbors
A Newt Note
In Otter Words
Imagining Foxes
Fishering
Walking the Pup
Twenty Things the Dog Ate
A Note on Mascots
The Unspoken Language of the Eyes
The Bishop’s Parrot
The Creature Beyond the Mountains
The Elkometer
This Particular Badger
Cyrus
Joyas Volardores
Raptorous
Reading the Birds
II. Brief Inquiries & Observances of the Wilder Animals We Call Children for Lack of a Better Generic Label for Those Most Headlong of Mammals; with Sidelong Glances at Human Beings & the Seething Roaring Natural World in Which We Swim
The Slather
Tigers
The Hymn of Him
Lost Dog Creek
The Anchoviad
Mammalian Observation Project: Subject J
Things My Kids Have Said That They Do Not Know I Know They Said
Best Napper of the Year
The Brilliant Floor
The Killer of Jays
Maschinenpistole
My Salt Farm
How to Start Your Kitchen Garden
Melting a Car
Unfishing
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever
What the Air Carries
Charlie Darwin’s Garden
My Land
In the Hills of Willamina
The Best Soccer Player in the World …
A Note on Cricket
My Hero?
The Thaw
The Hawk
Moose Poop
That Chickadee Must be from Chicago
A Moment
Sandy
Hypoxia
What Does the Earth Ask of Us
Notes