Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. Second Nature -- Second Nature -- II. Because the Relict Trillium, and The Tanager, and The Wren -- Calling Her Out -- Spirit Jug -- Ode -- Her Voice, Half Hidden by the Leaves -- Speckled Lilies -- Global Warming -- Equilibrium -- Black Snake -- Coyote -- Doe in the Summer Glade -- Her Elegy -- Carve a Wooden Spool -- III. What is Offered -- In the Poet's House -- Chrístos and the Tomato -- Lessons -- Taking the Byzantine Path to Monastíri Aghíou Ioánnou -- Theológos -- Face to Face -- An Old Woman in Black -- Odd -- What Is Offered -- The Doves -- The Choice -- In the Poet's House -- IV. Mandala on a Walking Stick -- One Finger -- Ice Light -- Museum Pieces -- Steadiness -- Seeing -- From the Very First, Not a Thing Is -- Zen Gardens -- On Balston Beach -- Meditation at Main Brook -- Dirt -- Notes in the Margin -- Mandala on a Walking Stick -- Notes and Dedications.