Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Biographical Note viii
5. Introduction Song for the Song of the Dogged Birdwatcher ix
6. Down River, Into the Camp 2
7. At the Long Sault Parkway 4
8. The Great Blue Heron 5
9. The Eye Meets Tom Thomson’s “ARapid” 6
10. The Trout 8
11. August 11
12. Lependu nearly materialized by his blackbirds 12
13. Field Marks: 13
14. Leaving 14
15. The Boy’s Own Guide to Dream Birds 15
16. I Scream You Scream 16
17. Adagio for a Fallen Sparrow 17
18. Field Marks (2): 19
19. Identification 20
20. VIA, Eastbound 21
21. Buckling 23
22. Some Functions of a Leaf 24
23. How to Imagine an Albatross (assisted by the report of a CIA observer near Christmas Island) 25
24. from Black Spruce 27
25. Another Theory of Dusk 28
26. Meditation on a Geode 29
27. Choosing the Bow 30
28. Meditation on Shovels 32
29. Poplar 33
30. Early Instruments 34
31. Twinflower 35
32. Alibi 37
33. Matériel 38
34. Setting the Table 41
35. Sometimes a Voice (1) 43
36. Load 45
37. Luna Moth Meditation 46
38. Hush Factor 47
39. Sometimes a Voice (2) 48
40. Astonished— 49
41. Afterword 50
42. Acknowledgements 58
43. Books in the Laurier Poetry Series 63