Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church -- from Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960) -- Sleeping Out at Easter -- The Vegetable King -- The Performance -- from Drowning with Others (1962) -- The Lifeguard -- Listening to Foxhounds -- The Heaven of Animals -- In the Tree House at Night -- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek -- from Helmets (1964) -- The Dusk of Horses -- Cherrylog Road -- A Folk Singer of the Thirties -- The Being -- Approaching Prayer -- Drinking from a Helmet -- from Buckdancer's Choice (1965) -- The Firebombing -- Buckdancer's Choice -- The Celebration -- The Shark's Parlor -- Fox Blood -- The Fiend -- Slave Quarters -- from Falling (published in Poems, 1957-1967) (1967) -- Reincarnation (II) -- The Sheep Child -- For the Last Wolverine in -- The Bee -- Mary Sheffield -- Falling -- from The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970) -- Victory -- Pine -- Madness -- The Eye-Beaters -- from The Strength of Fields (1979) -- Root-light, or the Lawyer's Daughter -- The Strength of Fields -- The Rain Guitar -- Remnant Water -- False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age -- from Puella (1982) -- From Time -- Tapestry and Sail -- from The Eagle's Mile (1990) -- Eagles -- Circuit -- Night Bird -- The One -- The Three -- The Eagle's Mile -- Meadow Bridge -- Tomb Stone -- Moon Flock -- from Double-tongue: Collaborations and Rewrites -- Purgation (second version) -- Index of Titles and First Lines.