Table of Contents
On Longevity 1
I Laws of Nature
Fledglings 5
A Knock Upon the Senses 6
Totem 8
"White-Tailed Deer, Winter 10
The Skies in Our Heads 11
Blind 12
Haiku, Winter 13
Georgics
On Celebrations 19
On Varmints 20
On Blood 22
On Still Reflections 24
On the Invisible 26
On Making a Difference 27
On Black Raspberries 30
On Spinning 32
On Brooding 34
On Japanese Beetles 35
On Apples 37
On Poison Ivy 39
On Soybeans 40
On Firewood 41
On Tree Sounds 42
On Living Fences 44
On Snow 46
On Subdivisions 47
On Your Nature 49
On Grass 51
On Shooting Stars 53
On a Redwood 56
Haiku, Spring 59
II Laws Other Than Nature's
Haiku, Summer 65
At Present 68
A Friend Phones to Say My Footprints Have Melted 70
For the ever-oprimistic 72
Morel Season 73
Passers-by 75
Memory, Like Ice 77
On Hearing That, 2,000 Miles Away, Your Friend's Dog Has Just Run Off 79
Sighting 82
Haiku, Autumn 83
Once Upon a Trail 87