Contents
Part I
The Longing Season
The Persistence of Fatherhood
The Map
Crazy with Love
Our Bodies
Fog in the Valley
The Rainful Year
Shadows Flooding
Part II
Omens in Southwest Wisconsin
What I Know about Owls
A Romance for the Wild Turkey
Calendar with Deer
A Host
Song of the Black Dog
The Brain of the Spider
Threnody
Despair
Intimations of Fatherhood, Operation Desert Rock
Part III
Somewhere Years Ago
But Bird
The Day I Became a Poet
Lightning
The Light
Diz’s Face
The Existential Year
Remembering Power Hitters
Romance
The Beautiful Ethiopian Navy
Part IV
Raw and Absolute
The Weathers of Love
Aurora Borealis
Indian Summer
Northumbria
A Rant against Losses
The Seed Bearers
The Failings
Easter 1991
Another Place
Big Blue Train