Pole Poem

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents viii
3. Context is Everything
4. Roads 13
5. Cold and Caribou are Lovers 14
6. A Shadow 15
7. Implicated 16
8. I
9. Post-Calving Cold Seeking 21
10. Utqiaġvik Beach Walk 22
11. Raven 24
12. What is Wild? 25
13. Village Ascension 27
14. Women Boating 28
15. Transformation 29
16. Fire Season 31
17. Pole Poem 32
18. Creekside 34
19. In-Kind 35
20. Addressing the Glacier 36
21. Vision Dream 37
22. The Man who made Things from Nothing 38
23. Under a Cloud 39
24. Berry Picking in the Rain 41
25. About Skies 42
26. Citizens of the USA 44
27. River Stone 45
28. II
29. Following Snow and Cold 49
30. Immortal Longing 50
31. Caribou 51
32. Autumn Leaf Hunt 52
33. Cloudy Day 54
34. Alaska Vet's Caribou Dream 55
35. Eclipse of Autumnal Moths 57
36. Night Concert 58
37. When Birds Stop Singing 59
38. Openings 62
39. III
40. Abiding in Cold 67
41. Night 68
42. I Believe 69
43. Orphan Hours 70
44. Aiyee! 72
45. Seal Hunters 74
46. Astronomy Lesson 75
47. Evening Steam 76
48. Cabin Queen 77
49. Toward Pleiades 78
50. Man, Woman, Corvus 79
51. Pressed to the Earth 81
52. Little Church on the River 82
53. Snow Machine Collision 84
54. Landscape with Pissing Dude 89
55. Poem Home 90
56. Roadkill 91
57. River SKI Song 92
58. Riffles 94
59. Two Ways with Snow 95
60. Under the Scope 96
61. Facing the Stars 97
62. Chasing the Lights 98
63. House Flies Watch her bring in the Paper 99
64. If we Could 100
65. IV
66. North toward Cooling Calving Grounds 103
67. Behooved Mothers 104
68. Spring SKI Song 106
69. Interior 108
70. Like Mountain Snowmelt 109
71. In my Dreams 110
72. Three Rules 111
73. The Day the Tripod Fell 112
74. About Naming 113
75. The Field 114
76. Pingo Poem 115
77. An Afterword
78. Oh! 125
79. Acknowledgments 126