Contents
I.
Risen from the Underworld
Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil
Oscine
Tomorrow Marks Six Years
Aeromancy
Winter Nests
Energy Economics
Plane of Last Scattering
Ravine Goddess, August
Quebrada
Anti-Love Poem
My Mother’s Feline Companion
Wreath for the Red Admiral
After Franz Marc’s The Red Deer (1912)
Elegy for Wilma
II.
Until It Speaks
Rocks and Minerals
Tent Caterpillars
Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed
Air Like a Sea
Near Paradise, Michigan: Brown Cabin, Roof with a Green Stripe
Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Dead Man’s Fingers
Viewshed
Poem Ending with a Line from Tranströmer
Late Letter to Hugo
Helleborus Orientalis
Wood Not Yet Out
Kingston Plains
By Clear and Clear: Riverside, Midday
After Hiroshige
Heron, in Sunlight
Burial Underwear
III.
Olentangy Elegy
IV.
Sunday Rising
Cento
Ghosts That Need Consoling
Missing
Depressed by a Gray Mood on Tuesday, I Step Up and See a Sparrow
If Riptides Were a Gateway
Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue
Near the North Sea
It Was Raining in Middelburg
Botanical Beliefs
Tell Me Again Why Western State Hospital for the Criminally Insane Should Not Frighten Me
Psalm to Sing on a Frozen Morning
Where Pilgrims Pass
River Villanelle
Across Barbed Wire
Math, Architecture
Stowaway in the Arugula
Exile Song
Acknowledgments
Notes