Contents -- Acknowledgments -- New Poems, Part One: The Genealogy of Beer -- In Praise of the Neolithic -- The Genealogy of Beer (A Blend of Beck's and Guinness Stout) -- Loving in the Autumn Rain -- Homeric Erotica -- Anna (Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anne, July 25/August 8) -- Anniversary Poem (1988) -- Lunchtime at Taguchi's (An idyll for Sam and the Gang) -- Rissa in the Rain -- Mother's Day 1988 -- Seed Dispersal ( Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1988) -- Dominic's Poem -- Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886) -- August Afternoon at Helle's Pool, Vancouver, Washington -- Jamie, Racing Off -- Soccer Squad -- Red Dogs and Onions -- Tumor (1996) -- Croquet, Nickerson Pitch -- Breakfast at Grandma Nora's -- The Facts of Life -- Image of Nora, Rendering Seal Oil -- Translating Pasternak -- Awaiting Discharge -- Based, of course, on hearsay -- Epiphany 2008 -- Sensory Overload (Viewing the Buddhist Tapestries at the Sacred Arts of Bhutan Exhibit, Honolulu Academy of Arts, April 2008) -- Waikiki, the Breakers -- Sonnet on National Security in the Bush-Cheney Reign (Lines Disclosed in a Doctor's Waiting Room) -- After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean -- Dating Myself -- Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our Grandson -- Forwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009 -- Unfinished Business -- Triptych: Easter 2011 -- Joyriding -- Gardening with Elijah -- Meditation on Dandelionsin Morning Sunlight -- New Poems, Part Two: Juneau Sketches -- Daanaawaak / Silver Dollar Eye: Supermarket Satori -- Phenomenology of Moss -- Shark Fins -- Easter Monday -- Song Sparrow -- Ear-shattering -- July 5, 2009 -- Sunrise -- Daybreak -- Through Study Window -- Iambics for the Southeast Alaska Regional Cross-Country Meet September 20, 2003 -- Parody of Spring -- View of Auke Lake -- Fleet of Mountain Peaks.

All Saints Day (November 1, 2006) -- November 10 -- Gift of Bohemian Waxwings -- Winter Promise -- New Poems, Part Three: Congestive Heart Failure: Letting Go -- Landscapes of the Heart -- A Meditation: Against the Dying of the Light -- A Formal Elegy (Thinking of Dylan Thomas) -- New Poems, Part Four: Excerpts from the Cycle Lacrimosa: The Social Web of Cancer -- Homage to Po Chü-i -- Donuts -- Tough Guy -- Approaching Winter Solstice -- Nunc Dimittis -- Remembering Ron -- Atonement 2009 -- Basho: Open Road -- New Poems, Part Five: Harvesting -- First Day of Fall -- Foraging -- Harvesting Potatoes -- Digging Spuds -- October Rain -- The Tides Forecasting Winter -- Potatoes, 2003 -- Falling in the Garden -- Life Support -- Harvest Festival -- Every Garden Grows One -- Selected Poems, Part One:Poems from Little Magazines,1963-1969 -- The Pall Bearers -- Ukrainian Flirtation Dance -- At the Spring: Glasby Pond, Fall 1963 -- Uncle Martin, 1963 -- Tootsie -- Thought and Memory: Finland, Summer 1963 -- Neva Farm (Finland, 1963) -- Berrying (Finland, 1963) -- Ilmatar: Finland, 1966 -- Full Moon: Finland, 1966 -- Housewife (Finland, 1967) -- Dust: A Poem on Translation (after reading Nelly Sachs's German translations of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran) -- Three Texas Poems for Loyd Mowry (Sinologist, among other things) -- 1. Texas -- 2. Hill Climb -- 3. Mowr y in Brownsville -- Sketches of Big Bend: West Texas, Easter Weekend 1966 -- 1. Blow-out -- 2. Ghost Town: Haunting Sounds -- 3. Road to Presidio -- Two Wisconsin Poems: Madison, Fall 1967 -- Listening to a Lecture on Zola (Madison, Wisconsin, Fall 1967) -- Two Poems on the War in Vietnam, Madison, 1967 -- 1. The Missing Link -- 2. Conversion -- Bread Lines -- My Last Metaphor -- Four Perspectives -- From This Perspective -- First Phenology (Madison, March 27, 1969, 11:45 am).

Definition of Itself (Madison, Wisconsin) -- Field Guide: Madison, Wisconsin -- Selected Poems, Part Two: from Phenologies -- January: silence -- Conceptions of Snow -- Nuances of Dawn -- January 10 -- Thoughts While Bringingin Firewood, January 17 -- Winter Walk -- "Pome" for Larry & Beth Beede (February 11, 1970) -- March 8 -- March and -- Wednesday, April 2 -- April 12, annual blizzard -- April 13 -- May 6 -- May 11 -- May 1 -- Sunday, May 16 -- May 20, Anchorage -- May 22, snowing -- Late May -- Driving home at 4 am in June -- Earthquake -- Magnificat -- So much -- Mountainside summer -- August 8 -- Driving to Alaska -- August evening, ten o'clock -- August, but the archetypes of October -- Hiking in the Kenai Peninsula -- Labor Day -- September 5 -- Late September: stars -- Exactitude -- Auto Repair -- September 27 -- Sunday, October 4 -- Dogs barking -- Morning Walks -- October: splitting wedge -- October 17, at dusk -- October 21 -- Late Afternoon, Alaska Methodist University Campus -- Autumn Tune-up -- Sapphic Moonrise, Flattop Mt. -- Full moon, November 3 -- November, any year -- Turn the wick down -- November 15 -- Evening, December 1: Orion -- December 21, eight thirty -- December 31 -- Selected Poems, Part Three: from Glacier Bay Concerto -- Glacier Bay Concerto First Movement: Commander Glass Cuts Deeper into Kake -- 1. I like your stuff, Frost, but I often wish -- 3. 1675 -- 4. Sez Levi-Strauss, look -- 14. 1869 -- 30. 1882 -- 42. Rednecks in Yakutat -- 47. Update: Anchorage -- 55. Alaska Airlines -- 59. At the rise and set -- Glacier Bay Concerto Second Movement: The Woman in the Ice -- A Reading of Persephones (for Nathaniel Tarn in Alaska) -- Shaawat Séek': The Daughter of Woman -- New Anny -- Rilke at Glacier Bay -- Mt. Fairweather: Tsalxaan -- Glacier Bay Concerto, Third Movement: Raven Woman, Child of the Clan of Grass.

Autumn at Sheldon Jackson College -- Two Fog Poems -- The Fruits of Winter -- Walking the Sitka harbor -- Winter Ferry: Haines to Juneau -- Raven, after the Storm -- In Tlingit -- Sitka koan: it rains -- As if all -- For Sy and Chris -- For the Upikson Girls -- The Ramification of Aries -- Kaasgeiy -- Growing Old -- Pneuma: A Family Poem for Leni and Boboy -- For Marcia, Dawn, Joel, and Rachel -- Marissa -- It's difficult -- Raven woman -- Selected Poems, Part Four: From The Shroud of Shaawat Séek' -- Lullaby for Kaat'eix -- Four Sketches -- 1. Hoonah -- 2. Memorial for Willie Marks -- 3. The Shroud of Shaawat Séek' -- 4. Family Birthday Picnic, Auke Bay, Sunday, June 9, 1984 -- Hoonah Graves -- Selected Poems, Part Five: From Frames of Reference -- From Part One: Flying Mountains, the Stability of Mist -- A Birthday Poem for Amelia, 1983 -- Riding Stable: Teresa's Sixth Birthday Party -- Anchorage Dump, Limited -- Dragging Anchor -- Class Reunion, June 21, 1985 -- Villanelle on Lines by Wendell Berry -- From Part Two: The Fruits of Winter -- Birth of the Theotokos -- Mind Weeds -- Middle Child -- The Visit -- Two Covenants -- The Liturgy of Snow -- Driving in a Snowstorm, King Salmon to Naknek -- Night Flight, Fort Yukon-Fairbanks -- Skating with My Granddaughter Genny -- In Memory of Our Godchild Jessica -- Meditation on Our Godchild Jessica -- Sunrise, Chugach Mountains, December 22 -- Triptych on the Nativity Icon -- Forefeast of Theophany -- Playground -- Of Being Born in April -- On Lazarus Saturday -- Keeping Watch -- Russian Easter 1981 -- Archetypes of Ephemera -- Father Michael Oleksa Blessing the North Pacific -- At Kenai Lake -- Camping at Wonder Lake, Denali Park -- From Part Four: Anastasia: Of the Resurrection -- Midsummer Nearing -- Anastasia: Of the Resurrection -- The Archeology of Childhood.

Divine Liturgy at St. Elias Orthodox Church -- Lunch at Aunt Peg's, 1982 -- Night Watches -- One Could Think -- A Dream on Your Birthday February 15, 1983 -- Howard Dight in Memoriam -- Afterword -- About the Author -- Book Publications in Creative Writing -- Major Book Publications on Tlingit by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer.