3 A.M.  ·   15
A Billion Times Told  ·   16
After the Flood  ·   18
Awake Before the Baby Cries  ·   19
Balloons  ·   20
Born Again  ·   21
Breaking Bud  ·   22
Carriages  ·   23
Cat in the Christmas Tree  ·   25
Come Close  ·   27
Condensation  ·   28
Conservative Bodies  ·   30
Dreamers  ·   31
Feminine  ·   32
Finding Anna  ·   33
Formal Failure  ·   35
Formless  ·   36
Forty-Six  ·   37
Four Sticks  ·   38
Girls Playing Church  ·   41
Grandma  ·   42
Gruff as Necessary  ·   43
Highway  ·   44
How Can We Know?  ·   45
How Much More  ·   47
Hulda, You Are Leaving  ·   49
Hulda, You Left Word  ·   50
I Know, Carol, You Are Dying  ·   51
In the City at Twenty  ·   52
It Was the Kind  ·   54
Knowledge of Birds  ·   55
Leaves on the River  ·   56
Leaving Wichita Late  ·   57
Living under Authority  ·   58
Loose Woman  ·   60
Moved by Emptiness  ·   61
Mrs. Jacob Buller’s Grave  ·   62
Mrs. Jacob Buller’s Wedding  ·   63
Old Story  ·   64
On Entering Grandma’s House  ·   67
Outside  ·   68
Photographs  ·   69
Prodigal  ·   71
Psalm 1  ·   72
Rearranging Furniture  ·   73
Red-Tailed Hawks  ·   75
Remember  ·   76
Riddles from Mary  ·   77
Round House  ·   78
Scissors  ·   79
Shingles, Socks, and Photographs  ·   80
Silence  ·   81
Storage Issues  ·   82
String Bag  ·   83
Sunday Evening  ·   84
The Matchbox  ·   85
The Old Land  ·   86
The Revenger’s Tragedy  ·   89
Thy Waves  ·   90
To My Daughter Jailed in Chicago: 3/20/03  ·   91
Try This  ·   92
Vachel Lindsay’s Piano Moon  ·   93
Vision  ·   94
We Place These Stones  ·   95
We Wait for Words  ·   97
Wedding Rings  ·   98
Wheat  ·   99
Winter Light  ·   101
Witness  ·   102
Women’s Work  ·   103
Yggdrasill  ·   104

Credits     105
The Author     107