Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. -- Taxonomy -- Perspective -- A Consideration of the Word "Home" -- Consciousness: An Assay -- Dona Nobis Pacem -- Seeing Things -- The Consolation of Wind -- Limbo -- Deer Dreaming Me -- Imago Dei -- Midrash -- A Mennonite in the Garden -- Fishing for Large Mouth in a Strip-Mining Reclamation Pond near Lloydsville, Pennsylvania -- What Lives in the Wake of Our Sleep -- Two Sounds after an October Storm -- Resurrection: A Field Note -- Morning Poem -- The Knowledge of the Lord -- The Gospel of Beauty -- Brushwolf -- Vigil -- Letter to Dave B. with May's Insatiable Hunger Tagging along -- Upon Looking down onto the Top of Your Head Where the Hair Has Gone White -- Atrial Fibrillation -- What We Do while We're Dying -- Begging Bowl -- Nurse Log -- Thinking of Li Po while Fishing the Little J -- What I Told My Sons after My Father Died -- II. -- Thoreau Casts a Line in the Merrimack -- Thoreau Hears the Last Warbler at the End of September -- Dreaming the Dark Smell of Bear -- Thoreau Considers a Stone -- Emptying the Bedpan -- Give Us This Day -- Psalm Written the Last Week of December -- Thoreau Dreams of Margaret Fuller Three Days after Her Death -- In the Clear-cut -- The Virtues of Indolence -- Offering, as One Example, the Satisfaction of the Bee -- Thoreau Surveys the Ice -- In the Kingdom of the Ditch -- Heaven Come Flying -- Thoreau, in Death -- Consecrated -- III. -- Not Writing, Then Writing Again -- Hermetic -- Hawks Flying -- When the Body Is Absent -- Coal -- Three Songs for Flannery O'Connor -- Theophany -- Ordinary Time -- Spring Melt -- The Sound of Sunlight -- Letter to Dave B. from the Karen Noonan Center on the Chesapeake Bay -- Last of the Sea -- Missing Boy -- Apophatic -- Most of What Is Written Is Simply Grief -- Heliotropic.

The Poet Stumbles upon a Buddha in Gamelands 158 above Tipton, Pennsylvania -- Crow Counsels Me in the Ways of Love -- Deposition -- Perigee -- Somnambulance -- Transfiguration -- Last Bones of Winter -- Umbilical -- Poem on the Anniversary of My Father's Diagnosis with Pancreatic Cancer -- A Prayer for My Sons, after a Line of Reported Conversation by the Poet William Blake to a Child Seated Next to Him at a Dinner Party -- Meditation on Hunger at 2 A.M. -- I'll Catch You Up -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.