| Foreword | p. xv |
| Corners of the Mouth |
| A Remedy, Withheld |
| Where We Messed Up |
| Imaginary Islands |
| Souls Under Water |
| The Piano |
| Warhol |
| Idaho Compline |
| Self-Portrait in Ink |
| People Walking in Fog |
| "Why Do You Stay Up So Late?" |
| Grown Men |
| Lautrec |
| Memento of the Hours |
| Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty |
| The Three Trees |
| Van Leeuwenhoek, 1675 |
| House of Gathering |
| Lessons from the Natural World |
| Departures: Last Flight from Fairbanks |
| Homebody |
| Janus-Igenuous |
| To Err |
| Incense |
| Ice-Fog |
| Shadow |
| Melanoma |
| Walking into the Future |
| The Night of My Conception 1 |
| Show Up |
| (And More) |
| Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking About Sex, Reflect upon her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet |
| "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" |
| Precarious |
| Do Not Forget My Name |
| Seedtime |
| Capitulations |
| Bull's-Eye |
| Choices |
| Not a Sparrow |
| Weather Report |
| Cleaning a Rainbow |
| Happiness Jazz |
| The Gig |
| Sonnet |
| Historic House, Astoria |
| Map |
| At the Edges of Everything Crackling |
| Six Short Ones |
| The Question on the Floor |
| When Kali Dances the Earth Around |
| The Walk She Takes |
| Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns |
| Two Blue Elephants |
| Poem for the End of the Century |
| The Legend |
| For the Homestead Friends |
| Comb |
| Drift and Pulse |
| What Self |
| Lessons from Thieves |
| The New York Poem |
| A Day Like This |
| The Creature Quotidian |
| Cutting Her Out from the Flock |
| About These Trumpeters That Line My Walls |
| On the Origin of Blind-Boy Lilikoi |
| Meaning |
| First Touch |
| The New Orpheus |
| Steelhead Almost |
| Guarding the Dump |
| Together in the Ice-storm |
| from The Winter of Bridges |
| Bird That Fell to the Ground |
| Four Summer Outfits |
| Flags-January 1999 |
| Robins in the Dark |
| Three Cafes |
| Surplus |
| A Winter Fairytale |
| Old Age |
| Avalanche |
| Surrealism |
| Rear View |
| Pathetic Fallacy |
| Shall I Compare Thee to Appearances? |
| Turbulence |
| Feast |
| What (War 2003-) |
| Open Land |
| Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy |
| Patrick Lane | p. 149 |
| The War |
| Howl |
| The Light Next Door |
| Can a Fire Burn Forever? |
| Easter, 1999 |
| A Measure of Desolation: February 2005 |
| Watching a Fractal Set |
| Describe Book Blurbs to Nationalism |
| Describe Wildflowers to Ethics |
| God the Synecdoche in His Holy Land |
| Public Poem in the First Person |
| The Orphan's Consolation |
| Let's Say What's Always Left Unsaid |
| 1936. Hiroko's Passage |
| Ballad for the Blue Moon Tavern |
| Fourth of July, B.C. |
| Impolitic |
| Sampling |
| Back to B.C. |
| Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock |
| "Stress, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure" |
| Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble) |
| Astonished- |
| Conviction |
| On Sending Out Our Kids Again |
| Girlfriends |
| Junkyard |
| Elders |
| Hansel and Gretel's Father Explains |
| Origami Dove |
| The Room Where They Found You |
| Out of Time |
| from Hand Luggage-A Memoir in Verse |
| Ah, by the Golden Lilies |
| The Second Letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project |
| from Patient 6 |
| Four Swans |
| The Empress |
| Anagrammer |
| The Devil's Dictionary of Medical Terms |
| For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State |
| Viagra |
| Voluptuaries |
| Apologia Pro Vita Sua |
| Upon the Deliberation of Their Domestic Policy |
| Penmanship |
| Everything Is a Metaphor |
| Skin |
| Hunger |
| Door |
| Man on Deck |
| Travelling One Way |
| Looking for Work |
| New God |
| Medicine-Meeting, Hoopa, 1994 |
| We Knew Them |
| Bucket |
| Vice |
| High in the Bamboo |
| On the Empire Builder Heading West |
| Swans, Where We Don't Expect Them |
| The Forbidden Fruit |
| Gauguin in Oregon |
| Brahms in Delirium |
| Esta Spalding | p. 245 |
| The Key |
| Mrs. Barlowe's Plum Tree |
| Train Window |
| Primus St. John | p. 252 |
| Watering the Orchids |
| Batey Tumba |
| Neighbors |
| The Girl from Panama |
| Grogginess |
| Halting Meditation |
| On the Boulders of Inanity |
| Light Years |
| Steelhead |
| Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc |
| Knocking or Nothing |
| The Day Lady Di Died |
| You People |
| Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935) |
| Up the Steps of the Capitol |
| Sonnet: "Sweetest bleeding..." |
| Sonnet: "Bitter seed..." |
| Sonnet: "Nothing was ever..." |
| What the Stones Say |
| Desire |
| For an Old Woman at the Gate |
| Thoreau and the Quagmire |
| Appalachian Midrash |
| Kuf: Mnemonic |
| Mukilteo Ferry |
| Y |
| After We Received the News of the 100-Mile Wind |
| For One Who Prays for Me |
| News |
| Letter to a Young Poet |
| Kissing Booth |
| Reined In |
| Busted |
| Biographies of the Poets | p. 293 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 327 |
