Cover -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Foreword -- Proem -- THE SHRINKING WORLD -- LIFE IS RISKY -- THE WELL RISING -- THE FARMER -- OSTRAKA -- FORAGING HONEY-BEES -- WOODCHUCKS -- THE FIRST STORY -- SPEAKING PLAINLY -- LOOSESTRIFE -- SMALL JEREMIAD -- THE DRIFT -- TREES OF KNOWLEDGE -- IN BLACKWATER WOODS -- THE COWS AT NIGHT -- PATIENT -- RESPONSIBILITY -- THE RIVER AT WOLF -- A HUNGER SO HONED -- INSOMNIA -- DISARMING -- BINSEY POPLARS -- DANBY FOREST -- PETAL DROP -- SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW -- SALVAGE -- BRISTLECONE -- PICKING STONE -- THE CROW -- OCEAN CITY -- UNNAMABLE -- TOO EARLY FOR GRACKLES -- PATHETIC FALLACY -- FIRE AND ICE -- LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY -- THE NATURAL WORLD -- MARSHALL WASHER -- HÖFN -- BEARS AT RASPBERRY TIME -- ALL RISE -- from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM -- IL DODO, IL KIWI -- INSTRUCTIONS TO A SEED -- NEWS -- WHAT KIND OF TIMES ARE THESE -- MOTHER -- BURIED TREASURE -- FOSSIL -- POSTCARD FOR A PAINTING -- PIED BEAUTY -- OF MULTITUDE -- ARTILLERA -- HOW KNOWLEDGE HAPPENS / COMEBACK WITH SWANS -- FALL LIGHT -- EARTH-SPARROW -- FOR THE LAST CATAMOUNT -- FOR THE RECORD -- CONSUMPTION -- THE NEW PASTORALISTS -- SEEKING REST -- AFTER SU TUNG P'O -- VERMONT IS THE NEW FLORIDA -- HARVEST -- FROM WOODY'S RESTAURANT -- TRAFFIC -- BIKE POLITIC -- ODE TO MT. PHILO -- THE SECOND COMING -- JAR OF EFFULGENCE -- POSTCARD RECIPE FROM HUNTING SEASON -- RECORD RAINFALLS -- INDIAN BOY LOVE SONG #1 -- SNOW DAY -- HIGH WINDS FLARE UP AND THE OLD HOUSE SHUDDERS -- SUGARLOAF -- SAVOR -- BLACKBERRY EATIGN -- THE OTHER -- FIRST QUESTION -- DAYBREAK -- ON THE AMTRAK FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK CITY -- THE SKUNK MOTHS -- ROGUE MOSS -- THE HERON -- from THE END OF BRITISH FARMING -- COUNTRY RELISH -- THE BIRDS -- THE BIRD -- GIFTS OF RAIN -- ON READING THE DIARIES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS -- EARTH TEARER -- BLACK SNOW.

GLOBAL WARMING -- IN THE NEXT GALAXY -- THE ALIEN -- WINTER GREEN -- O'BRIEN'S COVE / MAYFLIES -- NAMES FOR BIRDS -- UR GOD -- SOME EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING IN ADDISON COUNTY -- IN A KITCHEN WHERE MUSHROOMS WERE WASHED -- AT THE SAP WELLS -- THE REFUSAL -- WAVES IN THE WOODS, song -- FOR THE TAKING -- OCTOBER -- CLOTHESPINS -- from THE THIRD GEORGIC OF VIRGIL -- INTERNATIONAL CALL -- LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN -- A WAKE ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN -- VEIL -- ODE TO THE BEEKEEPER -- STUDENT POEMS FROM -- DRIVING HOME AT NIGHT -- THE TRAVELLER'S GRACE -- NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY -- THE END OF FOOTBALL -- STREET SWEEPER -- APPRECIATION -- LEAPING FALLS -- CLEAR CUT -- THE EXPEDITION -- WHITE WORRY -- SIGNS -- WONDER OF WONDERS -- OIL SPILLAGE -- THE HARROWING -- THE DRUMMERS -- CANTICLE OF THE SUN, A SECULAR TAKE -- PRELUDE -- FARM AID -- TURBULENCE / CARROT -- A QUIET AFTERNOON -- WHITE OUT -- RESISTANCE -- ET IN ARCADIA EGO -- EUCALYPTUS -- WRITTEN ON THE MARGIN OF SAINT GALL'S MS, 904 AD -- EVEN THE ATHIESTS SANG FOR THE SOLACE OF SONG -- THE SHIP OF BIRTH -- MONARCH BUTTERFLY -- Envoy -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Photographs.