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Between the Fields of Then and Now
Nostos
Walking in the Spring Grasses
Wild Sweet Pea
The Lake in Winter
Azimuth
Bluebonnets
Windowless Place
The Felling
The Fire
The Drain
Morphology
Swing
Woman Waking Early in Late Fall
Notes in the Margin
But just a thrush on a branch? If night and day
Furs
Swamp Lullaby in a Dry Year
Lake Chatcolet
Horticulture or Eternity
Paradise Lust
Ghost Horses
Cougar Flat
Spring Inventory in a Wood Near Lund
Sonnet (1)
Ghost Letter
The Persephone Period
Coast
Corn Mask
The Harvest
Hillwood
Sick Fox
Pleuropulmonary Blastoma
June (And we’re past the solstice now)
June (The rain is falling in veils)
Luci libere
Daylight
Odore di fieno
Odor of Hay
For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter
Review by Danielle Kotrla | “Daniel Boone’s Window” by Matthew Wimberley
Echinopsis pachanoi
Echo Discusses Desire with the Trees
Afforestry
Still Life of Central Valley with Fog Cannons
To a Wren on Calvary
Inconclusive
Requiem
Flight Paths
Bees in Dew
Of Course the Line Is a Circle
Procure a Field
Four Cardinals
The Future
A Reading by Camille T. Dungy
Ivy in Every Parallel Universe
Cicala
Cicada
Luna e cani
Moon and Dogs
Dentro la pioggia di Febbraio
The Rain in February
Ritorno al mio paese
Return to My Country
Hone
Cache Creek Bridge at Flood Stage
Feathers
Audubon’s Peewees
Genesis
Coral Calls Out Anthropocentric Despair
Ghost Pastoral
Mail
Diptych with Window View & Hiroshige Print
Kubota Garden
A Dream Dependent
Raven
Godforsaken: Of Death and Dafforfils
Summit
Здесь хорошо, откуда ни начни
It's really nice around here
Необъяснимо тихо. Скрипит коляска
It's quiet here—except for a squeaking stroller
Picnic, with Geese
From this blue born
Looking for God (its big machine)
Jennary: Hinterland
In the Year of the Earth
The Humming
Efter En Lång Torka
After a Long Drought
Snowmelt
At the Lepidopterist's House
Under the North
Untitled (Against the slope)
Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape
Anthology: a collection of flowers
From This Distance
Birds and the Way They Understand Love
Essay on the Order of Time
By You
Whiteout
Aftermath
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars
[Папироса за папиросой]
[Cigarette after cigarette]
Pteridomaniac
Finding Other Uses On Earth
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men
These Are the Insects
Lapse
Bones in the Soil
The Vanishing
A Letter to the Sacred Ibis
Anniversary in the Lookout Tower
October is a Fine and Dangerous Season in America
Limits of the Burning World
Bees
Return
Civil Twilight
Wormhole
Review | Pandora’s Garden: Kudzu, Cockroaches,and Other Misfits of Ecology, by Clinton Crockett Peters,
Crocus
Biophilia
Bird Study
Elegy with Barred Owl
Catherine MacDonald
Sentinel Species
Landscape with Deer, Mites, and Aircraft
[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
[Важким кам’яним вугіллям в корінні лісів], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Year’s Middle
A Bird in the Hand
Hail Mary
Sunday Drive
Loose Page Found Inside a Notebook
Of Time and North
Out and Back
Warn the Young Ones
from "Like Nebraska" by Sophie Klahr
In 1967
Soft Action
Icarus in the House of Spirits
The Barn
Fukushima Winter
Pushing toward the Canopy
[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
The Air We Breathed
[Влітку], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Orange in a Schoolbag
[Важким кам’яним вугіллям в корінні лісів], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Year’s Middle
Tapping the Glass: On Poems, Aquariums, and Form
Bruised Forest
Forest
Cooper’s Hawk
Duets
Mascots
An Invitation
Coat The Skillet
How Long Have You Been Sleeping, Snow?
Letter 7
Independence Creek
Abandoned Shacks in North Carolina
Environmental Impact Statement
Post-Oil
Sincerity
Black Pan
Supermarket in Autumn
Surfaces
The Abandoned Hour
River Bytham
St. Winifred’s Well (2)
Canis Familiarus
Concerning Pan
The Cardinal
Review | A Series of Small Maneuvers, by Eliot Treichel
My City Is Also a City
Where the Feeling Deserts Us
Acre
The Back Porch
GMOs
[Calico gray, rag-tag she chose our crawl space]
[After I dumped the failed jelly by the rotten]
[She is back, the one-eyed cat, trapped]
[They know their terrain, their paths]
[Coming back into the yard something’s off]
Ink
Coffey Still
Shelterbelt
I say arid and the room says storm
the wilderness rose as incense
Shadow
Après le Déluge, or How to Return 1
Soul's Colony
[Near dusk, near a path, near a brook]
[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder]
Firefly
What Light Does
What You Sow
Two Weeks
Moon Blind
Sleeping in the Good Bed
Last Hay
“A Reading by Stephen Dunn & Barbara Hurd”
Flood of ’97
The Raft
Hush
The Other Side
The Auspices
Planting
ne·pen·thes
Elegy for the Deodand
Goat
Weird Prayers
Things on Purpose
Pastoral (Future Interstate)
Pastoral (With One’s Head Out the Car Window)
Blue Flower
Richmond
Sea Cow
Vivisecting
afterlife
bright one
restriction
The Storm-torn Edge of Heaven
Here
Frequently Asked Questions: 2
Bird Ephemera
The Pines
Bedroom (In the Ear)
Small Facts
Lake Ice
The Swan Girl
winter landscape with newspaper & dog
My Father as Weather Formation
Cast Net
Your Virtue Unswerving, But Miles from Any Mark
The School
Acres
Harvest
Why Not Malachite for Resurrection
Circle in the Grass
Incarnations
Encarnaciones
Ice
Shark’s Tooth
The Field
New Food
Of Current
Of Earth
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
The Chickasaw Trees
Bellwether
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #4646:‘Vegetation Grows Rapidly’
Aubade: Homesong
Abstraction
Ghost Confederacy
Alphabet of Stones
A new science
Reasons for Staying
After the Tornado, the Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving
The Teenager Watches the Tornado in Her Rearview
The Tornado Visits the Town
Landscape: trillium
Girl at Nine and Again at Thirteen
Rouse
Winter Coastal Haiku
III. To Have & To Hold
The Meteor Shower
Once
Gall Themselves, and Gash
Walking the Dog
Statuary
Site 947: A Situation Report
Egrets
Sun Bear
The Devil in the Water
from Opening the World
Col. Othniel Sweet’s Mysteries of Nature, #11 (blackbirds)
Keats, Climbing
Journal of Responses
And Night Illuminated the Night
From a Catalogue for a Colorist
Sermon on Form
Patient Sermon
Elegy with Lake Effect
The Fruit Leaves The Tree
Natural Distances
Blue Jay and Something Else
Hibernaculum
So Look Up Already
Florida Funeral
if an inner landscape
but for us they
Myself—be Noon to Him
Pastoral with Dog and Frank O’Hara
April and Silence, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Nightbook Page, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Landscape with Suns, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
The Cuckoo, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
The Light Streams In, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Haiku Poems, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Canon of Disassembling an Iceberg
Paradise
Fluff
At the Lawrence Ranch
The Edge of the Sea
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1729
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Afternoon Swim
Twenty-nine
Ruffed Grouse Feeding on Moonseed Berries
Woman, Snake, Percy Sledge
Tagore Variations 5
Tagore Variations 4
Tagore Variations 1
Tagore Variations 6
Sea Smoke
April Och Tystnad
Nattboksblad
Landsak Med Solar
Göken
Ljuset Strömmar In
Haikudikter
Black Ice
Proposal
from Notes du ravin
Ramón’s Eyes
El Laberinto
Pájaro Sagrado
Diagnostics
from Notes from the Ravine, Philippe Jaccottet | translation by John Taylor
Review of Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
John Ravenal | Recently Acquired, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Fred Tomaselli's Woodpecker
Not Whiskey
Witnesses
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
On Balston Beach
Equilibrium
Seeing
Communion
Anniversary
Delivered
Meanwhile
Whim of the Minute
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
In the Fields of Asphodel, Evening
6 Standish Court
The Wren, Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane
Now Downward, Airin Miller
Antidote to the Chaos of Imagination
Willingly
Natural Bridge
Little Goat
Slow Saunter of Wither
Laura Gilpin’s “Navajo Shepherd Boy”
Abiquiú
Nightlife
“I”
Februarsuiten
Review of The Lions by Peter Campion
A Conversation with Katie Ford
Pear
Leda at Work in the World
Sweet Box
Treatise on Travel
Threshing
Reviews of Making a Map of the River, by Thorpe Moeckel and In the Truth Room by Dana Roeser
Found
Variation on a Landscape | After Hockney's Winter Tunnel
Variation on a Landscape | After Hockney's A Bigger Puddle
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking
Towards the Sound of a Heron Stepping on Ice
Mistress (2): Teeter-Totter
Hummingbird
The Room Is Cluttered, the Suitcase Night Thunder
Being Bird-Blooded
Clear and dark gills of mushrooms
Pastoral as Complaint
An Ice Age
How to Apparel Yourself for the Hunt
Review of Eden in the Rearview Mirror by Susan Elbe
Review of Field, Folly, Snow by Cecily Parks
Review of Slantwise by Betty Adcock
Review of On Dream Street by Melanie Almeder
Nature, Culture, and Perception: Work by Tersita Fernández
Mountain Standard Time
Lighting Department
Columbia, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Marasca, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Three Days in Flower
Transcience
Review | Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs, CRAIG BEAVEN
12:12
Pima Road Notebook (II)
Inspiration, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
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Problems with Windows
September
First Snowfall
Woman goes out into damp December
Eligible
The Kudzu Chronicles
Ficus
Wakulla Springs
Polar Explorer #2
Snow Goggles: Whalebone and Sinew
Study/Bees
Study/Leaves
Study/Moon
Three Days After the Storm
Arc
Some Grass along a Ditch Bank
Dispatch From the Outpost
Winter Psalm
Louisiana's Swamps
Anybody?
Wishing
News from Home
Reading Andrew Marvell
Renters
This Time
Estuary
Field Guide to the Night Sky
Sheep
Prisoner of War Camp, Pine Grove Furnace
Spring Poem
Everything Is an Instrument
Crows
Stiff-Edged Kimono (Ruffled Iris)
Kimono Pulled Up as Bedclothes (Willow)
Cruelty
Meriwether and the Magpie
Girdling
Salvinia Molesta
Necessary Authorities
Paperwhites
Undertow
Juliet and Fire
Redwood
Night Crabbing
In 1967
Under the Volente Raft
Florida Ghazals
The Carriage Road
Red Elegy
Alef: Seeding the Alphabet
The Cicadas
A Mountain Lion Makes Ready
Luna Moth
Landscape Returning
During Fever
Outside the Horse
Sky Treasure
From the Undergrowth
Buzzards
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
Lent Prayer
Things That Cannot Be Compared (Dissonance I)
The Bird Cards
Swallows
Flood
American Bittern
Seven-Star Bird
More
No Diga Mas Que Lo Que No Diga
The Garden of Sex
The Garden of Sex II
Wintering
Beggars
Beggars
The Feeder, 1
The Feeder, 1
The Feeder, 10
The Feeder, 2
The Feeder, 3
The Feeder, 4
The Feeder, 5
The Feeder, 6
The Feeder, 7
The Feeder, 8
The Feeder, 9
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt, March 30, 2005
Season of Limb Fall
Buck with a Broken Horn
Least Terns at Beaver Creek
Brain Fruit
Blaze
Images from the Kingdom of Things
Saturday Morning Satori
Inland Sea
Review | Jetty & Other Poems, by Talvikki Ansel
Blackbird Feature, Susan Settlemyre Williams, Review | The Orchard, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, August 16, 2004
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past
The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Epilogue
Autumn Sequester
From Inside
Measure
From Underneath
Requiem
Doppelganger Music
What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
Slow Field of the Sky
Burning Instead of Beauty
Self Portrait as a Mourning Dove
The Scenery of Farewell (and Hello Again)
Fahrenheit Meditation
Hitch-Hiking in the Dying South
No Haiku
Lines Composed Above the Occoquan River
Still Missing the Jays
On the Occasion of an Argument beside the River Where I Live
To One Lingering in the Trees
Greece
Summer Birds and Flowers
Fox Fire at the Changing Tree
Incident in the Sublime
What the Deaf Long to Hear
Night-Blooming Jasmine
Crawdads on the Styx, R. T. Smith
Blackbird Feature, Margaret Gibson, June 14, 2002