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Contents
2 Hospital
3 Birds
6 Zona
10 Soul
11 Thunder
13 A Ballad of Love and Death about Elsa
16 Wood and War
17 Sticking to It
18 Warmth
19 Cow
20 Seventy-Four
21 Old Man
22 Risen
23 NYC
24 A Variation on Machado
25 Vows
26 Purple
27 Spirit
28 Wolves of Heaven
29 Lost Medicine
30 Private Diamonds
31 Lazuli Trance
32 Mountain Travel
33 God’s Mouth
34 Junk Pile
35 Carpe Diem
36 Marriage
37 Round
38 Dead Man’s Float
39 Barebacked Writer
40 Feeder
41 The Girls of Winter
42 Weeks
43 Time Again (2)
44 Time
45 Tethered
46 Riding the Wolf’s Nose
47 Whimsy
48 The Green Man
49 Incidentals
50 Pain (2)
51 Man Dog
52 The Dog and Tobacco Room
53 Notes on the Sacred Art of Log Sitting
54 The Future (2)
55 Lorca Again
56 Winter Creek
57 February
58 December Butterflies
59 Pool of Light
60 Poetry Now
61 Criticism
62 Money
63 Bird Nightmares
64 He Dog
65 Tree Coroner
66 Books
67 Patagonia AZ
68 Melrose (2)
69 Dark
70 Sunday
71 Cattle Nap
72 Life
73 Universe
74 Herring
75 Things Unseen
76 Cigarette
77 Nuthatch Girl
78 Big Issues
79 Apple
80 Sundial
81 Winter, Spring
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