| Introduction | |
| Sliding Down the Wind (1978) | |
| Roman Roads | p. 3 |
| Down on the Beach | p. 4 |
| Over the Atlantic | p. 5 |
| Oh, Stand Quietly in Salt Water | p. 7 |
| Land of My Fathers | p. 8 |
| New Hampshire Summer Sunday | p. 10 |
| Yesterday's Touchdown | p. 13 |
| Saturday's Black Hole | p. 15 |
| The Hawk's Dream (1982) | |
| Travel in My Borrowed Lives | p. 19 |
| The Hawk's Dream | p. 23 |
| Rachel | p. 25 |
| Salmon Run | p. 27 |
| Tme Love | p. 29 |
| Appointment in Samarra | p. 30 |
| Barrier Beach | p. 33 |
| Land of Dixieland | p. 34 |
| Saturday Night on the Desert, March 1938 | p. 36 |
| "Mountain that was God" | p. 37 |
| Against Gravity (1986) | |
| Impossible Tasks | p. 41 |
| Tree | p. 43 |
| Genesis | p. 45 |
| Stalls | p. 47 |
| Clouds | p. 49 |
| Forgetting Jesse Carpenter | p. 50 |
| Turn-On | p. 52 |
| Late Monday Afternoon, Just Before the Rain | p. 54 |
| Time to Fly | p. 56 |
| The Colors of Infiniti (1990) | |
| The Hunter | p. 61 |
| A Father Remembered | p. 63 |
| Death of the Son | p. 65 |
| The Bull Comes to Pamplona | p. 67 |
| The Colors of Infinity | p. 69 |
| Kiss | p. 70 |
| Birth of Quasars | p. 71 |
| The Latest Illusion (1995) | |
| A Miniature Life | p. 75 |
| Electrons and Beaver Ponds | p. 76 |
| Viemmm | p. 78 |
| Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. - Imagined, from His Diary | p. 80 |
| George "Ace" Alligator (Mississippiensis), Now Residing in Florida | p. 84 |
| This Is What You Get | p. 86 |
| On Being Stoic | p. 87 |
| Amelia Earhart | p. 89 |
| Tracks of the Father, Tracks of the Son | p. 94 |
| This Way to Morning | p. 96 |
| The Reading | p. 97 |
| Pilot | p. 98 |
| This One Aspect | p. 100 |
| Change as a Curved Equation (2002) | |
| Change as a Curved Equation | p. 103 |
| The Way Forward, the Way Back | p. 106 |
| Until He Asked Me | p. 108 |
| First Love | p. 109 |
| Yaqui Universe | p. 111 |
| Makah Country | p. 112 |
| Mathematics for a Rainy Morning | p. 114 |
| Walking Through the Night (2006) | |
| Jones Beach | p. 117 |
| Walking Through the Night | p. 118 |
| Elegy for Bob Johnson | p. 119 |
| Discover the Air | p. 121 |
| Biplane Pilot | p. 123 |
| New Poems (2008) | |
| I Will Lie Down by an Honest Stream | p. 127 |
| The Seasons, Northern Hemisphere | p. 129 |
| First the Clowns | p. 130 |
| There Is More to Tell | p. 131 |
| Immigrant | p. 132 |
| The Weather | p. 133 |
| Why Because | p. 134 |
| Phlox | p. 135 |
| How Carefully I Study Her Sleep | p. 136 |
| The Bed | p. 137 |
| A Certain Truth | p. 138 |
| Summer Morning | p. 140 |
| Signs and Signals | p. 141 |
| College Reunion | p. 142 |
| Friends | p. 144 |
| What I See | p. 145 |
| Security | p. 146 |
| Bare Essentials | p. 147 |
| Siblings | p. 148 |
| Come with Me | p. 149 |
| Flight to Middlebury in a Boeing Biplane | p. 151 |
| Old Man Greets a Small Boy | p. 155 |
| January Daybreak on Long Island Sound | p. 157 |
| Atlantic Sky 33,000 Feet on Delta #73, Istanbul to JFK | p. 158 |
| Across the Grand Canyon at 39,000 Feet | p. 159 |
| Day of the Maccabees, Masada, 164 B.C.E. | p. 160 |
| Portovenere ("Sinum Spedia") | p. 161 |
| Countries We Choose to Visit | p. 162 |
| The Tide on St. Simon's | p. 163 |
| Nevada Through a Jet Window | p. 164 |
| Apache | p. 165 |
| Navajo | p. 166 |
| Song of the Sioux | p. 167 |
| Abanaki | p. 168 |
| Cheyenne | p. 169 |
| Comeback | p. 170 |
| Pilot After Flying Through a Storm | p. 171 |
| Fixed Relationships | p. 172 |
| All Thoughts | p. 173 |
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