Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- One -- Partita for Sparrows -- Practical Water -- Enchanted Twig -- Ballad at the State Capitol -- Rhopalic Aubade -- International Dateline -- The Eighties: An Essay -- [i looked up from my reading] -- Phone Booth -- Tiergarten Scenes -- Autumn Fugue -- Shadows in Snow -- Landing in Fog -- Pacific Ocean -- Two -- Reportorial Poetry, Trance & Activism: An Essay -- In a Senate Armed Services Hearing -- Northern California Women -- Dragonskin -- Near the Great Arch -- A Violet in the Crucible -- Girl Sleuth -- From the White House Lawn -- Permission to Be Strange -- The Late Cold War -- In a House Subcommittee on Electronic Surveillance -- In the Trance -- Economics in Washington -- Three -- september moon / september moon -- october moon / october moon -- november moon / november moon -- december moon / december moon -- january moon / january moon -- february dawn / february moon -- march moon / march moon -- april moon / april moon -- may moon / may moon -- june moon / june moon -- july moon / july moon -- august moon / september moon -- Four -- Pacific Storms -- Anthem for Aquifers -- Local Water & the Universal Sea -- Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek -- Berkeley Water -- The Covenant -- Earth's Shadow -- Sacramento Delta -- Hydrology of California: An Ecopoetical Alphabet -- Neap Tide -- Still Points in Water -- To a Desert Poet -- Acknowledgments & Notes -- About the Author.