Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Recognition 3
4. Defeated (A Confession) 4
5. The Tantramar Re-Vision 7
6. Crossing Tantramar Marsh 10
7. Cautionary 11
8. Fishing, Tantramar Marsh 12
9. Lure 13
10. Tackle Guide 14
11. Marsh Map Legend 16
12. Welcome to the Marsh Visitor Centre! 18
13. A Creek as Complicity, Duplicity, Daring 21
14. Current 25
15. Oxbow as Aging 26
16. Windblown 27
17. In my Jolicure Woods 29
18. The Hunter 30
19. The Mink 31
20. Studies in Contrast 33
21. Dark Flights 34
22. Hierarchies, the Northern Harrier Hawk 35
23. A Crow's Wing (Death Never Cancels) 36
24. Listening 38
25. Addiction, the Spruce 39
26. Black Spruce 40
27. The Trail 41
28. Forecast 42
29. Considering the Benignity of Clouds 43
30. Change 44
31. Mint 45
32. Rhubarb 46
33. Persistence 48
34. Ode to Produce 50
35. Garbage Detail 52
36. Reprimand 54
37. Cardinal Considerations 56
38. Grasses 58
39. Red Alert 60
40. Questions 62
41. October's Meadow 64
42. The Compulsion of Snow 68
43. The Silence of Snow 69
44. Winter Sparrows 71
45. Night Fear 72
46. Enthrallment (A Fan's Notes) 73
47. Blasphemies: Erasures/Extractions from John Thompson's Stilt Jack 75
48. The Cows of New Brunswick (Homesick) 82
49. Hammer (Note for the Bereaved) 84
50. Notes 85
51. Acknowledgments 87