Contents
Snowy Egret Rising
By the St. Croix River
Wachusett Reservoir
Maids in Yellow
Lake Utopia
West of Rousses Point, New York
Glen Nevis, Ontario
Superior Pulp, LLC
New Wawa, Ontario
Elderly Couple Having Breakfast at a Truck Stop
In Praise of Surgeons
Crossing the Prairies
Yellow-Headed Blackbirds at Dusk
The Man Behind the Wheel, Fort Nelson, B.C.
Alaska Highway Lodge, 1966
House Sparrows at Glenallen, Alaska
Under Heaven’s River
Li Bai Wakes in Broad Pass
Li Bai and the Magpie
Magpie’s Wife
Li Bai Meets a Brown Bear
The Brown Bear
Trapper
Li Bai Arrives at Wonder Lake
Almost Fall
The North Fork Wolves
Li Bai Discovers Adolph Murie’s Cabin
Coal Creek
Heaven’s River
Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home
The Brown Bear’s Lament
The Magpies Build a Nest in Honor of Li Bai
Coda:
Russian American Bells
Russian Orthodox Priest
Richardson Homestead
Black-Capped Chickadee
Paper Birch
Christmas Wolves
Rime Ice
Making Applesauce on a Snowy Afternoon
Common Merganser on a Winter Morning
Snow Squall
Snow-Blind Rivers
Benediction
Goldfinches at a Feeder
Saw-Whet Owl in a Hemlock Tree
A Magical Fox
The Winter Sky
Moonlight
In Praise of Visible Things
Basho
Thinking of Basho While Walking at Dawn
Greening
In This the First Long Light of Spring
At Delta Junction