Archives by Author
- Oil Plants
- All Good Frogs Should be Asleep
- One Unseasonable
- Induction
- Lie Still
- Alchemy of a Wetland
- Garden Date
- Motherhood
- Manhattan Remembered
- Denver
- Climate Change, Ohio
- Marmot
- What the Cat Taught Me
- Hashim
- In Praise of Cherries
- Last River Day
- Night on Fire
- When Homer Roams
- Elegy for the Giant Tortoises
- After Strife
- As the Mountain Dreams It
- Drūgath
- The Diplomatic Envoy
- The Thirst-Bag
- Quoth the Owl, Nevermore
- Wonderland
- Articulating the Bones
- Black Phoebe
- Cranes
- First Snowfall, Taos
- Nostalgia for the Rain
- Redwood
- The Grand Canyon
- The Taste of Rivers
- Whale
- Without the Flood
- The Last Tasmanian Tiger: London Zoo 1936
- Dead Cardinal
- Domestic Takeover
- The Last Vulture
- Dear Future
- A Day with My Sister at Point Reyes
- Migration
- Lawn Story
- Watchers
- Roadkill Beautiful
- Accidental Bees
- Bean Germination
- Birdsong from My Patio
- American Sonnet in Rome
- Stung
- Turnpike Pastorale
- Bison
- Fire Season
- Invitation
- Nest
- Persimmon
- Frozen Apples
- In the Deep Midwinter
- Migrations
- This Old Earth
- Trap
- You Came Back East
- E-pocalypse? Not!
- Around Us
- Morning Beijing
- Vigil for the Leatherback
- For Leonard Peltier*
- Gulls
- Not Being Able To Speak
- Overhear
- Solace
- The Lake, the Quiet
- The Moon Is Backing Away From Us
- The Seasons Persephone Promised
- Everything Shifts Here
- The Peace of Wild Things
- April Seventh
- By August
- Fall Squirrels
- Geese
- Hard To Plan For
- In the Mix
- October Cricket Posts a Personals Ad
- On Deck
- Primal Visitation
- River Fire, 2021
- Salina, Kansas
- Snow Reclines
- So at Home on Their Wings
- temporary ongoing
- The Plum Tree
- The Seahorse
- Timing My Breath
- When we went to Ontario
- Grieving the Brazil Nut Tree
- Bee
- Oregon
- Ice Music
- Near Winter's End
- Ragged Angels
- Song
- Winter Dusk
- Another summer day
- Another Summer Day
- Spring to summer
- Spring to Summer
- Startled
- Pool of Geese
- O Terremoto
- Migration of the Monarch
- Poem on Good Friday
- Communion
- Cubicle
- Distant Cousins
- Elk
- On Trout
- Instinct
- Sharing the Water with Thoreau
- One Morning Last October
- Having Spent a Lifetime Raging
- Caution, Butterflies
- Great-grandmother Explains Global Warming
- Migration
- The Sea
- Natural Capital
- Buried Treasure
- Gone
The Common Swift: Apus apus - I’ve been told that once
- Reiteration
- Trail of the Monarchs
- Hubris
- Called to the Forests
- Clear Cut
- Dart
- First Comers
- Nurse Logs
- The Sweetest Voice
- Tree Frog
- Pallid Sturgeon
- Baiji
- Rosary
- Asters
- Origin Story
- The Chase
- Tempest
- Intersecting the Snake
- Old Logging Road
- 4.4 billion
- factious reptile & witness
- seeds in flight
- unplug. eat away. turn out.
- Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- Balance
- Process
- View
- Smoke Sonnets
- Psalm of the Blue Ridges
- Psalm of the Four Corners
- Psalm of the Glass City
- Psalm of the Traffic Stream
- A Silent World
- How to Grieve a Lost Beehive
- Carp
- From the Long Poem, “When One Has Walled a Long Time All Alone”
- Loons: the dance
- Tearing Out the Blue Girls
- Fallout
- The Furnace
- The Potteries
- Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
John (Fire) Lame Deer and John Erdoes - A Forest is a Castle
- My Red-Tailed Hawk
- Brigid, Earthbound
- Horseshoe, Moon
- Hawk
- Flies
- Romance to Spring
- The Longest Day
- Two Minutes
- On the Beach
- She Was Just Passing Through
- The Keening
- Strawberry Mulching
- 1976 Gonzales, California
- Goodbye to Paper
- Learning About Trees
- The Final Fairy
- In the Meadow
- Letter
- Tiny Ants without Sorrow
- Walking the Property (4 parts)
- Pine Speak
- Winter Cottonwood
- Day Tour
- Painting Oceanside
- June 1 Highway N
- So Much Depends
- of loons and lakes
- this morning
- Bearly there
- From the Stag's Point of View
- Grayling
- Bach and Polar Bears
- Changing Tense
- Evening Panorama
- Lynx
- Spirit Land
- The Deep Frozen Desert
- The Journey There
- Watching a Sloth
- For the Birds: An Appreciation
- The Idea of Disorder in Key West
- Among the Tennessee Pines
- Cutting the Oak
- Delhi's Weather Report Reads "Smoke"
- Puja for Saraswati
- Upon Learning Buddhist Monks Have Made Trees Priests
- River Returning
- Microplastics
- Slush We Hardly See
- Colossal Wreck
- Compass Points
- Fruit Bats
- Music and Memory
- Pelagic Messengers
- Rebellion of the Salinas
- River in a Glass of Water
- The Earth's Most Dangerous Predator
- The Marshes at Dark Solstice
- Ocean View Homes - New Construction
- "If You’re Reading This, You Might Be a Baboon"
- Beginning Birding
- How You Kill an Elephant
- In Greenland the Ice Sheet
- Reading the Leopard
- Reading the Leopard
- Verge
- Imperiled
- Where Is the Upflying?
- Robbing the Hives
- On the Winding, Muddy Stream
- Tell Those to Come
- Fixing Antarctica
- Landscape Without Bicycle
- Aquarium
- In Spiral Arms
- Koi Pond
- The Road Between Them
- The Windows
- This Part of Texas
- Morning
- Here, Where Once She Was
- Sure it is Becoming, But
- Splayfoot
- The Abandoned City (Mesa Verde)
- Blue Whale
- Breath
- Across the Lake
- War in the Grand Canyon
- View of Dorian from the International Space Station
- To My Love
- And Now It's October
- Field of Thistles
- Game Day
- Late August
- Leaves
- Loafing
- Sassafras
- Taking Down The Locust
- Winter Light
- Guzzle
- Forsaken Fields
- Not One Thing Bright
- The Threshold
- Heartbeat of the World
- Conscious Cohabiting
- The Gold Tongue
- Trees Full of Light
- First September in Tuolumne
- Avon Calling in the Amazon
- Last Day of Zoo Camp
- What the Tortoises Know
- Where the Radiation Goes
- In the Neighborhood of Full Quiet
- Termites
- Snowfort Theory
- At Lake Martin
- Morning Glory
- Only Close
- Dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, 1987
- Eli the Lamb,
Lower Longley, Tasmania - Puerto Don Juan
- Tasmanian Cats
- The Inexplicable Business of Fish
- Sea Jelly
- The Lake in Winter
- Suburban Scene
- ARANEUS DIADEMATUS
- Quod Erat Demonstrandum
- Wambaw Creek
- For Toms River and All the Poisoned Places
- What is Your Personal Connection to the Ocean?
- In the Era of Biological Annihilation
- My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns
- Reading Miguel Hernández to My Toddler as Thousands of Emperor Penguin Chicks Disappear
- The Paris Agreement
- Age
- Goldeneye
- In Mid-January
- Three Hours in the Morning
- Brought To You By . . .
- Third World Arcadia (2019)
- Unrepentant Moon
- Postcard from Rio
- Not My Real Life
- Prince Edward Sound
- Heavy Roses, France, 1914
- The A of the B
- On the Other Side
- We'll Cross that Bridge ...
- What, Where?
- The Skin
- Deboning Trout
- The Skull
- What Had Killed Her
- End of the Road
- The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964
- Cedar Waxwings
- Piece of the wind
- Lake Dharma
- Headlights
- Zero Percent Containment
- Foraging
- Bumblebees Do Fly
- Finding the Solace Outside
- The Ephemeral Pond
- The Funeral Bird
- Ice Remembered
- Climate Change: Drought
- The Fish Found in Her Dream
- Autumn at Work
- Blue Whales
- Broken
- Drought on the Navajo Reservation
- Leave Taking
- Mountain House Morning
- Respiring
- Something Coming
- The Gaia Theory
- Longing
- Blue/White
- The Wintering Birds
- New Land
- The Purpose of Bones
- In Defense of the Silver Maple,
- The Old Heron, Rising
- For the Vultures
- The Horses on Meadowbrook Road
- Yangshuo, China: Watching a Fisherman's Cormorant on the Li River
- Another Spring
- The Migration of the Turkey Buzzards
- Paperless...Jobless
- The Horizon Empties
- Until Only Scars Remain
- Blue Mountains in Rain
- Encounter
- If a Blackbird
- Promethea Moth
- The Muskrat
- White Doe
- Sharing National Geographic with a Stranger’s Child in the Waiting Room
- Strip Mine
- What Follows
- Murmuration
- Seeing, Choices
- Shell Mudra
- The Desert in Bloom
- Pacific Garbage Patch
- Still This Way
- The Day We Toured Venice
- Geese
- The Science Teacher
- Trash Birds
- Sunfish
- Twenty-Two Caliber
- The Official State Flower of West Virginia
- At McClure's Beach, Point Reyes National
Seashore, California - Happiness
- Spleen
- Sweetgum Country
- American River
- Anthem
- DDT
- Explanation
- Particulate Matter
- This Breaking Wave
- Message: Sitka Sound
- My Anima, My Doe
- Things with Wings
- A Cry Breaks the Silence
- Bolinas Lagoon
- Good Animals
- One Bird Falling
- Tentative Passage
- The Buffalo and the Red Rock
- Tree-child
- On a Walk
- The Day After the Storm
- Six O'clock News
- Heard Among the Windbreak
- How to Fell a Tree of Heaven
- In Seven Erstwhile Cities
- Driving in the Dark
- Elafonisi
- Oyamel
- The Naming of the Animals
- Reluctance
- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Sleeping Deer in the Afternoon
- Hope
- How They All Swoop In
- Reviving the Lexicon
- After the Fire
- Concern for a Spider
- Last Night’s Traffic Stop
- Totems
- Check-out
- Animal Contact
- Becoming a Horse
- He's Got the Whole World
- The Other Economy
- Cardinal
- Cyanide
- Somewhere Near Amritsar
- Clouds
- Enclosure
- Maple
- Red-Breasted Nuthatch
- Touring the National Museum in Prague
- Tundra Swans Wintering, Mattamuskeet
- The East Troublesome Fire, October 2020
- These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
- Erotica for the Sea Turtle Swimming into the Glass of her Tank
- Letter to the Sun
- Sunflower Sutra
- Lonesome George: the last member of the Chelonoidis abingdoni species (circa 1912- 2012)
- Ice Creek
- Clausen's Farm
- A Map of Australia
- All Our Words for Melting
- Burning Down the House
- Forest Fire’s Last Words
- Proof of Life
- Behaviors of White-Throated Swifts
- Chamise
- Feather Falls
- Moorings
- Chenopodium album Hog’s Delight
- Impatiens parviflora Slipperweed
- Mimulus Lewisii Wild Snapdragon
- Aurora
- Mission Blue
- The River Eyot
- When The Rain
- Sweet Seed in the Rock
- Ghost Hive
- My Daily Crows
- Early Days of the 21st Century
- Ladder (5)
- Lone Pine and Mt. Whitney
- Night is Learning to Swim
- Ship of Fools
- Sky Ghazal
- The Robot Cowboy
- Untitled
- Vignette #32
- What Water Does
- You Have Housed Your Longing
- Fencebreaker Creek
- From There to Somewhere Else
- Septic Creek
- The Pond the Trees the Sky
- The Search for Gold in Costa Rica
- A Native New Yorker Speaks
- Drought
- Lease Agreement
- Ravens at the Rim
- Latrodectus
- Call and Response
- Letters from the Hinterland #1, Pond Food
- Letters from the Hinterland #10, Stuff
- Letters from the Hinterland #11, Springtime Wonders
- Letters from the Hinterland #2, Eco-Logical
- Letters from the Hinterland #3, New Year
- Letters from the Hinterland #4, Rapa Nui
- Letters from the Hinterland #5, Geometric Earth
- Letters from the Hinterland #6, Antiquity – Destiny
- Letters from the Hinterland #7, Habitation
- Letters from the Hinterland #8, Toxins
- Letters from the Hinterland #9, Consumption
- Huanglongbing
- Southern Oscillation
- Twenty Questions
- Villain
- Attention
- Dust Diaries
- Thoughts from the Trough
- Two Grey Foxes
- America’s Ecosystem
- The Last Remaining Male Northern White Rhino*
- Blue Bird
- Drought
- Life in the Suburbs
- Ghosting
- Walrus
- Hubris
- Breathe
- A Poem for Roadkill
- Full-Day Tour of Chernobyl
- Subject to Contract
- Arctic North
- Land of No Time
- The Initiation
- The Telling Wind
- Not Stones but Rain
- Into the Wind
- Gifts
- Mirror Lake
- Six stories of the world to come in twenty-four words or fewer
- February, 2008
Stone County, Arkansas: Margaret’s Room - Canticle for the Cardinal
- Catalpa Leaves
- Love as Snow
- Something about Morning
- Something about the Environment
- The Crow
- The Widow Laments Another Autumn
- What the Elephant Sings
- Wind as Conceptual Artist
- You Could Save on a New Sky!
- Thin Places
- The Apple Trees at Olema
- Abbreviated Geography
- Kindness
- Kindness
- Nest of
- The Flood
- There's No Place to Go
- War Voice: Project Construction
- Washed Ashore
- Enough
- Eyes of the Universe
- Rustles in the Underbrush
- Threshold
- Call of the Krill
- Nightmare on Ice
- The Wild Boars of Fukushima
- Unto Each Season
- Cricket
- At the Collier County Rest Area
- That We Don’t Move Fast Enough
- In the Drawing-Near Time
- The Holiness of Potatoes
- Soldiers' Stories
- Extinction
- February Freeze
- Here Now
- Vanishing
- Who Remembers
- The Peacock
- Salt
- The Ancestors
- The Blessing
- The Happiness of Trees
- Going Back
- Just So
- Dormant Season Controlled Burn, Calloway Forest
- Hawk Dream
- From the Left Foreleg
- Horse liturgy
- I Read, He Plays
- I Wonder
- Last Year's Sorrow
- Mr. Crow Wipes His Beak
- Lovely Without Us
- Drought
- Hike to Warrior Point, Sauvie Island, Oregon
- Hoyt Arboretum Under Spring Rain
- Marine Layer
- May Day 2020
- Sitting Cross-Legged in My Garden at Sunset
- To the White Egret I Saw Take Flight on the Eve of My Divorce
- Self-Portrait W/coffee & Sand & A Nuclear Half-Life
- W/distance In It & Giraffes & The Canals Of Venice
- [schema geometrica] [w/a Slice of Apple & an Elephant]
- Cradled
- Wounded
- Tree
- Tree
- Bull Shark Scuba Dive
- The Woods at Twilight
- Dazzled and Undone
- We Dig the Graves
- Gifts
- Here a Vernal Pool Reflects
- Ode to Air
- Petition to Common Sense
- The Nests
- What We Created When We Created the Brilliant Sky
- another form
- Birch I
- Campbell Creek, August 5th
- Dispatch from Siberia
- every rock
- How to Grieve a Glacier
- Refugium
- The Birds Make Everything Okay
- Whales at Night
- A Glass of Water
- On the Dead Sea
- Cardinal Direction
- The Condemned
- Close to Home
- Close Encounter in the Wild
- Once Were Birds
- The Extinction Stories: Orange Band, The Last Dusky Seaside Sparrow
- The Extinction Stories: The Ivory-Bill Woodpecker
- The Extinction Stories: The Labrador Duck
- Where the River Begins
- Extinct: Laughing Owl
Sceloglaux albifacies - Lecture on Coral Reefs
- The Alchemist (A Female)
- The Haul
- The Rate of Disappearance
- Spilling robins across the sky
- Seabird
- Ellesmere Island, Canada 1986
-- a photograph by Jim Brandenburg - Folding Together
- Still Pink Form: A Meditation on Hunger
- Chameleon
- Ode to the Sheep Crab
- Dead Ball Era
- Driftwood
- Early March
- Just Passing Through
- last place you look
- old game trail
- Spider Bones
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Armadillos, Motherhood, and My Divorce
- An Awakening
- Ants
- Back Away, Slowly
- Triptych
- Autumn
- Grass Dancer
- Silences
- Who Changed Wilderness?
- Osprey Missive
- Back to the Land
- Future Tropical
- Colony Collapse Disorder
- Tide Pool
- American Toad
- Where The Yellowstone Flows: Billings
- Saturday Snow Dec. 10-09
- Thirsty
- The Animals Are Talking
- Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant
- My Father, the Arborist
- One-Man Renga in Late June, Lee County
- Off Season
- North Woods
- Ardea Alba
- Exit 37B
- Near Walden
- Oak Tree Grove
- River Talk
- Failure
- Lost and Found in I‘ao Valley
- Saw-Whet Owl Irruption
- Wisdom
- Menagerie
- Arguing With a Lover About Love
- Filling In
- Cherries, 1960
- Lament for the Flowering Pear Tree
- Late February
- River Trail
- Salmon
- Windmills at Alta Mont Pass
- First Words
- Unseen
- Pebble Creek, Montana
- Enough
- Arribada: Arrival of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
- Blue Border of Extinction
- Helpless, 2015
- Horned Rhino Population
- Rescuing Tree Frogs
- The Beauty of Black
- The Double Darkness of Chance and Instinct
- Release
- In Praise of Mice
- What the Stream Knows
- An Inkling, An Urgency, A Patience
- Every Day Tell the Hours by the Shadows
- The Luxury of Pockets
- The Record Heat Wave in Portland, Oregon
- Walking on Water
- Tree Removal
- Kaddish in the Anthropocene Era
- Learning to Live with Water
- Environmental Dilemma
- Animals in the Yard
- It Starts in Your Sky
- Butterfly Faith
- The Snakes of September
- Mount Liberty in March
- Chinook Coming Home
- Armageddon Zen
- Cave of the Great Galleries
- Postcards from the River
- What Saves
- Fledgling
- Letter to Mardie Ratheau
Marlboro, Vermont - A Moment of Stillness
- At Baker's Farm
- Crucible
- Daybreak, Eagle Rock
- First Cast
- The Night the Crickets Began To Sing
- A Coming Flood
- Ornamental
- The Santa Fe Trail
- Dear Bob
- Life is Beautiful
- The Life of Trees
- Landscape Triptych
- Arbor Day
- Requiem
- A Hard Concept to Sell
- Inadmissible Evidence
- Fatal Attraction
- Night of the Frogs
- The Owl
- Uprising
- In Memory of Wolf Number 832F
- The Inspired Pen of a Wildlife Warrior
- Liquid Fractures: Karst, Gushers, and Absence
- Biloba
- Tea and the Traverse of Random Energy
- Conjoin
- Osprey at Bass River
- They Feed They Lion
- Bittersweet
- The Flood That Saves the World
- A Hole in the Sky
- Owl Delusion
- Succession
- Sunrise, San Luis Valley
- While You Were Sleeping
- Every Day Is Earth Day
- Loneliness
- World View
- Habitat and the Most Magnificent Mammals
- Compassion for Crows
- White Irisette*
- Yatu Moon
- Humiliation
- If I can be in my bones, I will be truthful
- Sangre de Bolivia
- All That Glitters Is Not
- Consequences
- Turkeys in the Meadow
- Natural History
- The Twilight Collections Agency
- Fair Youth
- Little Fires
- Cafe Girl Meets Butterfly III
- Inheritance
- Pandemic Jubilate
- Red Sails
- Out There Lives a Fox
- Waiting for the Rain
- Jewel Lake, 1994
- Drawn
- Humble Homily
- Watered-Down Well-Being
- An Ardor for Trees
- Late Dusk Forward
- What Kind of Mushroom Is This?
- Storm Bound
- Chilcotin Wild Horses
- Giant Pandas
- Peregrine Falcon:
Manhattan - Trophy Sorrow
- Backyard
Inch Worms - King Fire
- Owling
- road trip
- Gone
- Diving
- Dragonface Pipefish
- Jacaranda
- The Houses That Jack Built
- Tree-Trimmers
- Summer
- Fragment on Natural Philosophy
- Because He Chose
- Low tide. Sand crunching.
- Sand dunes
- There, something!
- White Mare
- Coyote
- Under the Hunting Moon
- The Girl at the Door
- Norco, California
- Somewhere in Barstow
- Heavy Snow in December
- Ode to the Little Brown Bat (myotis lucifigas)
- Melipona Gold
- Sharing Grapes
- Snowline
- Decomposition
- Disobedience
- History of a field
- Maize
- Not Only Earth
- Not the Nightly News
- Winter Sugar
- Lamentation
- Vernacular
- Prayer for Heaven
- Stories of the Black Ware Seed Jar
- To Be Greeted at the River
- Stone Fly
- Goose Season
- Climate Anxiety
- Erosion
- Gifts
- Lichen
- Spy Pond: Arlington, Massachusetts
- Imagine Rain
- Rain in the Anthropocene
- Rampant Garden
- Solstice
- Warming
- The First Last Days of Bombus Affinis
- Chernobyl
- The Silence of the Mine Canaries
- Bristlecone
- Planetary Defense
Double Asteroid Redirection Test - To Infinity and Beyond*
- Expatriation
- Night Caller
- Spring Valley Reservoir
- Cardinal's Triangle
- Undermanned Weatherman
- All Round
- Our Real Name
- Dimming
- Ode to Cedar Waxwings and Toyon Berries
- Stones
- The Bear
- Stormwatch
- Winter and the Tit Mouse
- Adaptation
- The Greenland Ice Sheet
- Lawn
- Carnivorous
- Leaf Glossolalia
- Cloud, Burr
- Ponderosa
- Ponderosa
- The Zion Narrows
- Abundance
- Bees
- Clifton Gorge
- Coming Close
- Hells Angels
- Out Here
- Sightseeing
- Skull
- Fortune
- The Sound of Living Water
- Undone
- Death of the Botanist
- In Juanita's Garden
- Ode to the Beet
- Bird Breaks
- The Stag
- Fern Ridge
- Gathering in the Anthropocene
- Saying Goodbye
- Accusation
- How we keep tending
- Flowering Dragonflies
- Dawn in Monterey
- Eleven Daffodils
- I’m Rooting for the Human Race
- Extra
- Axis Mundi, Tree at the Center of the Universe
- Drowning Kiribati
- Rumor’s a Fun Fact
- Canada Geese
- Old Game
- An Owl, an Offering
- Where Will They Go?
- Magpie Wars
- On the Beach
- Bristling Senescence
- Crossing the Wallace Line
- Musings from the Silence at the Vedanta Retreat in Olema, California.
What's a Weed? - Conservation
- Elderberry Music
- Oldest Mountains
- Dawn is When the Dead Breathe
- Momentary Light in Momentary Time
- Nightsong, Autumn
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Dispatch from the West
- Hunger Moon
- Musth
- Plenty
- Rivervale
- Talisman
- White Hawk
- Why Did I Call my Pig?
- Yellow
- Dream
- After Watching Farlan's Cows
- Love Poem Written In the Language of Western Wildflowers For Curtis
- Sotto Voce
- Badlands
- the word for world
- there is no homonym for disappearing, only
- A Young Woman, A Tree
- Everything alive
- It rains it thaws
- Late Winter in Plague Time
- Love
- Now Spring
- To the Eyeless Wolf Spider of Kauai’s Lava Tubes
- To the Hawaiian Goby
- White Tango
- The Pileated Woodpecker
- Signs of Changing Climate in My Garden
- Seeing & Believing
- Shy Ponds
- Beseech
- Flee Qualicum Beach, BC
- Fraser
- Nature Writing 101
- Return to Sender
- Lindisfarne
- What Happened in August
- Last Bird
- Back from the Brink
- Future Wilderness
- The Vanishing
- Zions & Environs
- City Underwater
- Story in the Stone
- The Verge
- Succession
- Hanford Reach, North Slope
- Harvesting Sheds in Jackson Hole
- Ninety-Five Acres
- Fire and Water
- The White Whale
- In The Confines Of Everything
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Television
(apologies to Wallace Stevens) - Ninety-Three First Person
- The Second-Best Time
- Being There
- Being There
- Faster then faster
- Contrail
- Coyote Prayer
- Humidity
- Florida: The Clearing Space
- Thirst
- Wilderness in the City
- Phragmites
- Iambic Muck and Shivers
- Cohabiting
- Trillium
- To Exxon
- Cormorant Fishing
- Flamingos
- When the Old Place Went
- Antipodes
- Clear Cutting
- Hemlocks
- Walking at Night
- Albatross
- Mountain Lion
- February Thaw
- Four Poems
- Heat Wave
- Living for Others
- Planting a Garden
- The Martian Bureau of Forestry
- The Natural Order
- Talking to Children after all the Bees are Gone
- Bees
- Cabbage Whites
- The disappearing
- Wet
- What's leaving me
- Looking Back From an Undisclosed Location
- Before Fiona and Ian, there was Dorian
- Gift for My Newly Widowed Friend
- Resurrection
- The Sand Nursery
- Dragonfly, Shelling
- House Frame In November
- House Frame In November
- Night Walk
- Northing
- Palace of Unfinished Glass
- Rising over California
- First Snow
- At Pond's Edge
- Geese on a Northern California Pond
- Lost Hills
- Season's Passing
- Season's Passing
- Driving Burleigh Road on Christmas Night
- Stealing the Days
- Dodo
- Guadalupe Caracara
- The Precious Common Versus the Precious Rare
- Accidental Garden
- Dancing the Corona Do Si Do
- Dear Southern California Folks:
- Wolf River
- Invasive Species
- Playing the Washboard
- Sprouting Wand
- Sparrow
- Toilet Tissue from Recycled Paper
- Sleeping by the Athabasca River, Late September
- And If It All Seems Pointless
- Haibun for a Wolf
- Cougar Ridge
- Once Winter
- Collusion
- Different Types of Disasters and Their Cures
- My Girlfriend and Her Two Friends, A Mile Outside Yosemite
- Seed of Greatness
- Springtime in Fengdu
- Cake Walk
- Gone
- The End
- Rise, Shine
- Vasco da Gama
- The Amazon River Dolphin
- Ode to Garbage Trucks
- Impenetrable
- Inversion
- Dendrology
- Snake Creek
- Under Mummy Mountain
- To Fall Again
- Vowels
- What Survives
- Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis)
- Unto the Heavens these Canada Geese
- The Naming of Brush Fires
- Red Panda
- Learning of Unsuitable Habitats
- Plastic Debris, Borne
- Song for the Pantala flavescens
- Song for the African Scarabaeus zambesianus
- The Calliope Hummingbird Speaks of Overlooked Flexibility
- Boy with Watercolor Hair
- Least Terns
- Animality
- Bonding with Hondo
- Forest Giraffe (Okapia johnstoni)
- Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
- Nene Goose (Branta sandvicensis)
- Polar Bear, (Ursus maritimus)
- The Flood
- Waiting
- Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle
- Inundation Incantation
- Shale
- Antarctica
- Sexy Time
- Winter Song
- Almost Storm
- Composting
- An Invitation to the Apple Harvest
- After the Darkening Trees
- Like the Trees
- Mother Earth
- Sea Lion
- Sierra-Gray Moth
- Symbiosis
- Clearing the Sparrow's House
- On Knowing the Wolf when You Meet Her
- The Fallen
- When a Poem Burns
- Among the Other Animals
- Mending Mittens
- Containing Multitudes
- The Luscious Dead
- Under the Magnifying Glass
- Summer
- “O Crustacean”
- At Split Rock
- Loonshine
- Spring Hill
- Meow-Meow Studies Astronomy
- Morning on the Cliffs, Bolinas
- Sly Park
- River Eye
- The Mole: A Tribute
- The Open Secret of the Sea
- Disintegration
- The Rabbit
- After Apples, Listening
- An Infantry of Stars
- Dowser on the River
- Rubble, Barn Style
- Saugus on the Tidal Run
- Still Water Covenant
- The Catch of the Day
- The Day Titanic Drowned
- Take a Walk in the Park
- Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria)
- Wren
- Hello
- Snowfall
- To the swans, nine days before Christmas
- Life's Work
- On the Way Home
- As Long As We Have Windows
- Coal Mine Canaries
- L.A.S.T.O.N.E
- Meanwhile, at Key West
- Dwarf Elephant
- Litoptern
- Passenger Pigeon
- The Fossil Record
- An Elegy for Franklin Ware, Dead before the Fire Came
- The Smoke of August
- Ghost Forests
- And You Will Wake
- Cattle
- First Rain
- For What It's Worth
- Nocturne
- Touchstone
- Yes
- Alpha
- Birder's Last Blessing
- Birding
- Capsula Mundi
- Great Swamp
- Hawk Mountain
- Marigolds
- Remnants
- Sea Glass
- Seaside Heights
- What I Wanted of Milkweed
- Winter Sunflowers
- Precarious
- On I-95 at 2:28 A.M.
- Evacuation
- In Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park - Mastodon Bones Found in Backyard Pond
Portland, Michigan - Snorkeling in Bonaire
- The Walk
- Erosion Librarian
- Spirit Animal
- Atmospheric River
- Day for Night
- Talistree
- Bird Calls
- Circle
- Weather Station on a Plain
- Weather Station on the Coast
- Spring Camp
- A Chechen poet writes
How does the world forget us/Suffer our massacre /with such indifference? - Laguna Grande
- Leaving the Aldo Leopold Wilderness
- Close to Satsop River
- Grazers
- Coyote's Prediction
- Lost in the Woods on Cascade Head
- Punch Bowl Hike Meditation
- Warrior Describes Men Wandering Around Alaska
Looking for a TV Set - May Storms
- Bat Cataclysm
- The New Age
- Autumn
- Pact
- Retreat Log
- Special Pleading
- Tremolo
- Ballad of the Dolphin
- End of Horses
- Litany of the Sow
- The Crowded Town
- Meadow Walk
- Roaming Coastal Hills
- Summer Solstice
- Coal Train
- Zion Sleight of Hand
- Incertae sedis
- Ocean Gyres Turn
- Hay Meadows Lost
- Canoeing
- Sturgeon
- The Lumberjack
- Ancient Forms
- How to Hunt Wild Animals
(Saudi Arabia) - No Horns, No Trophy
(Sri Lanka) - Whatever Powers
- Destination
- Entanglement
- Snowstorm, December 2020
- Start
- California Pastoral
- Our Only Air
- Monarch Epitaph
- Blueberry Ridge: A Poet Weighs In
- Full Moon Walk
- Only Autumn
- Ridge Developers
- Winter, San Geronimo
- Coming Back
- Garter Snake
- Merenchytraeus solifugus
- Flood
- The Lilac Bush
- Still Life With Invasive Species
- Almost Storm
- Budding
- Rain
- Rain on Dry Leaves
- Bear on I-40
- Crossing the River
- Darwin Would Agree
- The Call
- Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device
- Metamorphosis
- Fern Hill
- Arrowhead Catechism
- Bald Eagle
- Reacting
- The Last Mulberry Tree in Florence, Massachusetts
- The Drummer
- The Road Less Traveled
- The Clearing in the Wood
- Two Poems
- Cry for Help
- Disappear
- Garden Verse
- We Are the Environment
- My Daughter Calls Me On Global Warming
- Urban Birds
- Raven
- Small Gratitudes
- Winter Solstice
- Backyard
- Grubs
- Temperature Blanket
- Leaping Doe and Fawns Flash Before Us
- The Long Piers
- Arboretums
- Autumnal Equinox, Twenty-Twenty
- Autumnal Equinox, Twenty-Twenty
- Me and Prairie Dropseed
- Me and Prairie Dropseed
- Waiting in Line to be Added to the Endangered Species List
- Last Night’s Snow
- Ode to the Aspen
- Forecast
- Oil and Water
- Prophecy
- Paradise Eclogue
- Poem in April (Walking My Name Back Home)
- Reading the Entrails
- Red Moon Eclogues
- The Thing With Feathers
- Below Isberg Pass
- Zoo
- Green Medicine Lake
- Queens Kitchen
- Salvador Dali and the Glacier
- Bear Vigil
- Mandy Finds Her Place
- Tupelo Coyote
- Wearing California
- What We Know
- Slaughter
- How I Come to Know
- In Orange
- Unmarked Trail
- Pictures of the Floating World
- Weighing the Broken Heart
- Premonition
- The Ecstasy of Thrushes
- The Grief of Crows
- The Hare
- During the Power Outage
- Flight
- Prunus subcordata
- The Disappearance of the Polar Bears
- The Honeybee Fears for the Future
- Canyon Deep
- Ghosts
- Hunting at the End of Time
- Shade Life
- This Ocean
- White Oaks
- Fennec Fox
- Church
- Mouse Log
- Not the War
- Tapestry
- Canada Goose
- Containment
(for the Fukushima Fifty) - Lost Pines
- Sakura-no-sono
- Snow Pines
- Bear and Wolf
- The Mending
- Estuary
- Light Green Hue
- Crab Country Litany
- In Paradise
- Tidewater
- Unorthodox Environmental Protection
- Inle Lake
- The Long Tom
- Leona Canyon
- Idyll
- Cressing With Sophia
- Five-Foot-Long Black Snake
- Compost Happens
- Feral
- Lick of Wildness
- Redwood Dharma
- Significance of Planetary Flatus
- Chasing Lizards
- A Prayer to the Gods of Winter Solstice
- Dishwater
- In Preparing for the Winter Storm
- The Corners of My Fields
- The New World Order
- Losing Waikiki
- The Turn of the Snail
- This Compost
- Pine Stand 2005
- Winged Victory
- Field Trip
- The Tigers
- Affordable Flowers
- Landscaper’s Assistant Looks Down
- Charms Against Jealousy
- At the Window After a Great Snowfall Waiting for You to Come Home
- Elegy for the Polar Ice Caps
- Oh, the Beautiful Green Grass. 1999
- Radioactive Boars Claim Fukushima Province
- Roshoshona
- Things We Will Forget about Whales
- Canoes In January
- Fulcrum
- Midwinter
- Prairie Grass – February
- Feast Day, Lady of Sorrows
- Pesticide Survivor
- Sea Lions at Play
- Streaked-Winged Red Skimmer
- Bird Notes, July 2, 1937: Earhart’s Last Decision
- Portfolio
- Downstream
- The World is Too Much With Us
- Cherokee Fields
- Lepidoptery
- A Blessing
- Cider Pressing Party
- Fall
- Milking
- Tuesday Mornings Together on the Buffalo
- Moment
- Snowfall
- River of Angels
- Baylands Meditation
Dumbarton Bridge, Autumn 2011 - All Used Up
- Morning News
- On Ancient Wings
- Out of Control or The Story of My Life in One Dream and Thirteen Lines
- And Then Fukushima
- Potatoes
Christine Butterworth-McDermott
Paal-Helge Haugen
Translated from the Norwegian by Damon Aukema