Table of Contents

1
Alfalfa Farm     3
Russian Birch     5
The Good Shepherd     6
Removal     8
A Certain Dirge     10
Parts of Speech     11
At the House on the Lake     13
Horticultural     15
In Greater Detail     16
Some Traditions     18
Five Funerals     20
2
Elegy     25
Pangaea     26
Harm's Woods     28
Foaling     29
Plum Island     31
Quarry     32
Seldom Seen     24
Marked     36
Myopia     37
3
Five Paintings   Howard Pyle     43
"So the treasure was divided" 1905     43
"She drew her bridle, listening-there was no sound" 1905     44
"Then the real fight began" 1908     46
"Her head and shoulders hung over the space without" 1904     48
"He lost his hold and fell, taking me with him " 1909     50
At the Symphony     52
Music Lessons     54
Work     56
In the Museum     58
John Singer Sargent Murals, Boston Public Library     59
On Seeing Fox Hunt by Winslow Homer, After Many Years     61
4
Open Letter Re: The Good Fight     65
An Attempt     67
Vocations     69
Every Hour Here     70
On 9th Street     73
Ornithology     75
Edible Flowers     77
Liberty Island     80
Why Speak?     82
Notes     85