Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One -- Sawdust in Belly Hair -- Emerald Whisperings -- Beginner's Wine -- Appalachian Beard Stubble -- Emory and Henry -- Hinton and Hejira -- Summer Night -- Two -- Gathering Green Tomatoes in the Rain -- A Red-Gold Mustache -- Remember This Healing -- Wintry Woods -- Two Lovers -- Sunset over Hinton -- Incandescence -- Displaced Seeds -- Icefall -- Bodies We Have Loved -- Rotting Crab Apples -- Heart's Famine -- Waiting for Crocuses and Silver-Maple Bloom -- A Mustache Moist with Manna -- Distance the Skeleton -- The Symmetries of Happiness -- A Feast Together -- Not Enough -- When All Goes Well -- Three -- Mountain Fireflies -- Love Made Solid -- Firefly Porches -- Fried Chicken and Spoon Bread -- Her Kitchen's Square of Sunlight -- Dispersed Consanguine Fires -- How the Wilderness Feeds Us -- Loss and the Daily Biscuit -- Closet Dark -- Four -- Pietà -- Witness -- Streaming Fire -- Ephemera -- Five -- Aeolian -- Finding Solace -- Even in Heaven We Cannot Forget -- Regional Oddities -- So Many Gifts -- They Show Me What I Know -- See How Brave the Young Become -- The Shaky High Wire between Subcultures -- Saving What We Can -- New Fathoms of Thirst -- How to Live with Peace -- God's Bearded Face -- The Silver in My Beard -- Six -- Splitting Chestnut Oak -- Bluestone Reservoir -- Allen -- West Virginia Towns -- Lemon Cake -- Tomato Stakes -- Goldenrod Seeds -- Digging Potatoes -- Ramps -- Turnip Greens -- Creecy Greens -- Chowchow -- Dilly Beans -- Civilization Comes to Summers County -- Sawing, the Last Day of Winter -- Walking in Night Fog -- Weeds -- The Harvest of Motes -- Over Country-Fried Steak the Adulterer Retires -- Ambush -- Maple Syrup -- Cornfield in March -- Wild Magnolias -- The Cosmopolite and the Convict -- Mizz Alice -- Sunday Sunlight -- German Village -- Helvetia -- Dueling Feasts -- Bereft.

Two Glasses of Wine -- Homecoming.