Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling -- To Spirits of Fire After Harvest -- Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood -- The Fuel of an Infinite Life -- Grammar of This Life at Noon -- Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform -- Late Autumn Storms at Pigeon Point -- At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment -- Early Sixties Christmas in the West -- The Vowels Pass By in English -- Something Has Been Reading the Fireroots -- The Body Politic Loses Her Hair -- In High Desert Under the Drones -- Between Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us -- We Saw the E Look Back -- I Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring Red -- En Route to Bolinas, a Rose -- In the Room of Glass Breasts -- Equinox Ritual with Ravens & Pines -- To Leon, Born Before a Marathon -- Fable of Work in the World -- A Halting Probability, on a Train -- In Summer, Everything Is Something's Twin -- To Stem the Time We Spent -- Facelessbook -- Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare -- The Practice of Talking to Plants -- Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie -- Foggy Animist Morning in the Vineyard -- Previous Dawn in the Next Field -- West Marin Night During Perseid Showers -- For One Whose Love Has Gone -- Patience Swoons in the Sword Ferns -- Between the Fire & the Flood -- Between the Souls & the Meteors -- Moaning Action at the Gas Pump -- Elegy for an Activist in Winter -- Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways -- Rituals with Food Before the Feast -- After the Feast at Year's End -- Report on Visiting the District Office -- After a Death in Early Spring -- Imperishable Longing to Be with Others -- The Hour Until We See You -- Till It Finishes What It Does -- After a Very Long Difficult Day -- A Spiral Tries to Feel Again -- You Were in Sunlight Being Prepared -- On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling -- II. A Sense of the Lively Unit.

As the Roots Prepare for Literature -- Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music -- The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood -- At the Snow Line in Summer -- Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments -- The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto -- Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds -- The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox -- Very Far Back in This Life -- To the Writing Students at Orientation -- The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice -- Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies -- Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another -- Imitating a Squirrel at my Job -- Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors -- A Short Walk During Late Capitalism -- A Quiet Afternoon at the Office -- A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II -- When the Occupations Have Just Begun -- After the Orionids, Near the Plaza -- From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots -- Short Anthem for the General Strike -- Mists From People As They Pass -- Types of Fire at the Strike -- o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o -- A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility -- & the Tents Went Back Up -- 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF -- An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures -- The Second Half of the Survey -- Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation -- Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox -- Radical Lads, Blisters & Glad Summers -- Mystical Lichen Falls Through the Fonts -- Smart Galaxies Work with Our Mother -- In the Evening of the Search -- Acknowledgments & Notes.