Table of Contents
New Poems
1 Mountain Daylight Time
Turpentine 1
Never 3
Old Country Portraits 5
Away 6
The truth is, 8
Pen 9
Leaving the City 10
Calculation 11
God Particles 13
The Reading Light 14
How to Read a Poem 16
Postcard to Myself from New York 17
Trace 18
Guardian Angels 19
Recovery 22
Going-to-the-Sun Highway 23
2 Moving the Dead River West
The Martian Poet 25
Mouths 27
"Northumbrian Miner at His Evening Meal" 28
The End of a Long Winter North in the Northern Hemisphere 29
"Floyd and Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama" 30
The House 31
Near Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland 32
Kitchen 34
The Women of Lockerbie 35
3 Body Turn to Rain
Violence 36
Pacific Crest 37
Impossible Dream 38
Aphasiac 39
History 40
Memoir 41
Inventory 43
Impossible Modesty 44
Cul-de-Sac 45
Stitch 46
Impossible Transcendence 48
When the Other Man Asked Him Did He Pray 49
In Milosz's Room 50
In Milosz's Bed 51
Impossible Wilderness 52
A Map of the World 53
The Invisible Wedding 1984
Whaleships in Winter Quarters at Herschel Island 57
At Hoover Dam 58
Climbing the Nine Hills 60
Saturday in Midwinter 61
Swainson's Hawk 62
Christmas Eve 63
Toward New Weather 64
A Glider Takes Off from lire Cliff 65
March 67
Living Near the Refuge 69
Museums 71
Marriage in Winter 73
Assurances 75
Returning to the Middle 76
Samaras 78
The Invisible Wedding 79
Crossover 81
A Compass for My Daughter 83
March Day on a North County Marsh 85
Famous Persons We Have Known 2000
Lon Chancy, Jr., at the Supermarket in Capistrano Beach 89
Roethke on Film 90
Surfing Accident at Trestles Beach 91
Mansface 93
"To My Very Good Friend, [Signed] Jimmy Hoffa" 95
The High Lake Past the Field 96
May on the Wintered-Over Ground 97
Crossing the Arctic Waste with Ana 98
Meditation 100
Douglas Islands 101
Lake Bottom 102
The dock in winter 103
Lookout on Miller Point 104
Shrinking 106
That Year 107
Redwing 108
After Being Quiet for a Long Time 109
Moon in Smoke, Teton Park 110
Demonstration 111
The Lunar Driver 112
Bread 113
The Untested Hand 2008
Fourth-Person Singular 119
The Stars in Montana 120
Cursing the Oracle 121
Prayer 122
Crack Baby on TV 124
Small Song 125
The East Shore 126
You Felt Happy 127
Fin de Siècle Sonnet Out of Town 128
Toward Mankato 129
July 131
Yard 133
Westward Expansion 137
Story Coming Back 138
Terror in the Desert 140
The Whale 141
The Owens Valley 142
Evening News 144
Radioactive City 2009
The Odds 147
In Manhattan, The Oracles Do Not Lie to Him 151
Their Hero Strapped to His Chair at the Altar of Forsaken Maladies 154
And So It Came to Pass 155
Flathead Lake 156
Turning 50 in Missoula 159
Angel 160
At the End of Winter, He Keeps to Travel Plans Despite a Terror Alert 161
Paperweight 162
New York 163
Baptismal Font 164
At 2:00 A.M. 165
Orbit 166
The Missing Man 167
Naming Evil 168
Fall 169
Entering Wyoming 170
Scene from a 1948 Movie 171
Other Americas 2010
Western Monuments 175
Black Rock Canyon 176
The Next 177
Aunt Viola Hears Peacocks 178
New Year 179
Callc Real 181
Migration 182
He Will Never Be Mexican Like Oscar Quiroz 183
Other Americas 184
To Dick of the Storms 188
A Lake in Northwest Montana 189
Fur-Bearing Trout 191
Famous Dancing Bears 192
Rain 193
Notes 201
Acknowledgments 202
