Contents
At Home on Prairie Earth
Clarion Call
A Creek Called Walks in the Night
Dancing Up a Prairie Sunrise
Save the Last Dance
Ferns Prone to Take a Stroll
Renewal at a Slow Burn
A Song of Wind and Changing Seasons
A Time of Frogs, Toads, and Tiny Flowers
Night of the Banshees
Ghostly Bird Dreams on Melancholy Mornings
Daffodils
Notes from the Konza Country
The Grassland Legacy of J. E. Weaver
Floods Mark the Beginnings of Prairie Earth
Fuel for a Fiery Green Engine
Spring’s First Warm Rain
Tugging at the Crow’s Tail
Blackberry Winter
Cicada Spring
Meandering along with a Prairie Stream
Floating into Summer
Judge Not the Brown-headed Cowbird
A Tallgrass Summer Solstice
The Curious Life of the Tumblebug
Searching for a Prairie Queen
Of Morning Haze and Lotus Flowers
Dog-day Homicide
A Few Thoughts about Aesop’s Favorite Loafer
A Season Spun in Gold
Butterfly Summer
The Mostly Misunderstood Copperhead
An Osage Thoreau
Poet of the Prairie
Gone in November
Prairie Giants
On the Wings of Eagles
Pastures of Plenty
The Ghost Springs of Sycamore Creek
References