Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Half-Title xi
4. The Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park 1
5. Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River 2
6. At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts 3
7. Blueberry Barren at Dusk 4
8. Eastport, Maine 5
9. Star Marrow 6
10. First Anna's Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland 7
11. Statue of a Union Soldier 8
12. A Ladder of Cranes 9
13. White-tailed Buck in a Pasture 10
14. Winter Thaw 11
15. Glass Eels 12
16. Po Chü-I's Cook 13
17. Mozart's Starling 14
18. On the Death of Seamus Heaney 15
19. Innisfree, Western Alberta 16
20. Mundare, Alberta 17
21. The Wolf of Gubbio 18
22. Gray Wolf 19
23. Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf 20
24. Killing the Kenai Peninsula's Wolves 21
25. Fall Raspberries 22
26. Fireweed 23
27. Insomnia 24
28. To the Chinese Poets 25
29. Black Spruce 26
30. Fall Migration 27
31. To the Poet John Haines on His Eighty-fifth Birthday 28
32. Resolution Park 29
33. The Man from Here 30
34. Galaxies 31
35. The Church at Ninilchik, Alaska 32
36. Swans on Cook Inlet 33
37. Solitude 34
38. After Walking in Rain on a Sunday Morning 35
39. Reading Li Bai While the Moon Rises 36
40. Magpie at Twilight 37
41. Looking at the Ferry Museum's Salish Baskets 38
42. Starring, Western Alaska 39
43. The Loon at Shackford Head 40
44. Cow Moose and Magpie 41
45. Cloudberry Wine 42
46. Our Hand-carved Ornament of a Great Blue Heron 43
47. President Harding's Pullman Car, Fairbanks, Alaska 44
48. Westchester Lagoon 45
49. The Mist Net 46
50. Reading Housman's “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now” 47
51. A Needle's Eye 48
52. A Little Poem for the Stars 49
53. Alder Catkins 50
54. Alder Catkins after Rain 51
55. Poem Written on the Winter Solstice 52
56. On Being Asked to Write a Poem about the Moon 53
57. European Starling 54
58. American Dipper 55
59. Independence Mine, August 56
60. The Advent Bear 57