Table of Contents
Then The War 1
1
Invasive Species 5
Of California 6
That the Gods Must Rest 8
The Enchanted Bluff 9
Little Shields, in Starlight 11
Morning in the Bowl of Night 12
Blue-Winged Warbler 14
Not Wild, Merely Free 15
He Didn't Raise Hand or Voice 17
In a Field, at Sunset 19
The Difficulty 20
In a Low Voice, Slowly 21
Fixed Shadow, Moving Water 22
Somewhere, right now, a hawk 23
Sing a Darkness 25
Among the Trees 27
2
While Night Still Keeps Us 49
Then the War 50
As the Rain Comes Down Harder 52
Something to Believe In 54
The Blue Door 55
Rough Surf in Moonlight 56
Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself 57
On Coming Close 58
Electric 59
Soft Western Light 60
Everything All of It 62
Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us 64
Only Portions of the Map Still Legibly Survive 65
Archery 67
Initial Descent 69
To Autumn 70
Of the Shining Underlife 71
Anywhere Like Peace 72
Entire Known World So Far 73
Night Comes and Passes Over Me 75
This Far In 77
From Speak Low
Speak Low 87
Mirror, Window, Mirror 88
Captivity 89
In a Perfect World 91
Distortion 92
Storm 94
Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices 96
The Raft 97
From Double Shadow
Fascination 101
Continuous Until We Stop 102
The Grass Not Being Flesh, Nor Flesh the Grass 103
The Need for Dreaming 104
Almost Tenderly 105
Glory On 106
Civilization 107
Immaculate Each Leaf, and Every Flower 110
Heaven and Earth 112
From Silverchest
So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open 115
After the Afterlife 116
Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain 117
Neon 118
Your Body Down in Gold 119
Anyone Who Had a Heart 120
Dominion 122
But Waves, They Scatter 123
Silverchest 124
From Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance 127
The Darker Powers 128
Steeple 130
Capella 131
For Long to Hold 134
Foliage 135
The Strong by Their Stillness 136
Faintly, with Falling Stars 137
Spring 138
From Wild Is the Wind
Swimming 141
Brothers in Arms 142
Musculature 143
Not the Waves as They Make Their Way Forward 144
Gold Leaf 145
What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us 146
If You Go Away 147
For It Felt Like Power 149
Monomoy 150
Wild Is the Wind 151
The Sea, the Forest 153
From Pale Colors in a Tall Field
On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing 157
Pale Colors in a Tall Field 159
For Nothing Tender About It 160
Dirt Being Dirt 161
A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here 162
Yet No Less Grateful 163
Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors 164
Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment 165
If It Must Be Winter 166
Defiance 168
Star Map with Action Figures
And If I Fall 173
Dangerous Only When Disturbed 174
Wake Up 176
On Triumph 178
Unbridled 179
We Turn Here 180
To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All. 181
Reasonable Doubt 182
Fine 183
And Swept All Visible Signs Away 185
Honest in Which Not Gently 186
Self 187
Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter 188
Star Map with Action Figures 190
My Monster 192
All the Love You've Got 193
Notes 197
Acknowledgments 201
Index of Titles and First Lines 203
