Table of Contents
At Home on Prairie Earth 1
Clarion Call 7
A Creek Called Walks in the Night 11
Dancing Up a Prairie Sunrise 15
Save the Last Dance 18
Ferns Prone to Take a Stroll 22
Renewal at a Slow Burn 26
A Song of Wind and Changing Seasons 30
A Time of Frogs, Toads, and Tiny Flowers 35
Night of the Banshees 39
Ghostly Bird Dreams on Melancholy Mornings 44
Daffodils 49
Notes from the Konza Country 52
The Grassland Legacy of J. E. Weaver 56
Floods Mark the Beginnings of Prairie Earth 60
Fuel for a Fiery Green Engine 63
Spring's First Warm Rain 68
Tugging at the Crow's Tail 73
Blackberry Winter 79
Cicada Spring 84
Meandering along with a Prairie Stream 87
Floating into Summer 92
Judge Not the Brown-headed Cowbird 97
A Tallgrass Summer Solstice 101
The Curious Life of the Tumblebug 108
Searching for a Prairie Queen 112
Of Morning Haze and Lotus Flowers 117
Dog-day Homicide 123
A Few Thoughts about Aesop's Favorite Loafer 127
A Season Spun in Gold 132
Butterfly Summer 137
The Mostly Misunderstood Copperhead 144
An Osage Thoreau 148
Poet of the Prairie 153
Gone in November 158
Prairie Giants 163
On the Wings of Eagles 168
Pastures of Plenty 174
The Ghost Springs of Sycamore Creek 180
References 187