Memory of bears -- The poet -- Country school truant -- Using the girls' toilet -- Men and boys -- What comes with late fall watermelon -- Hanging out with my older cousins -- The stars -- He wonders if he passed -- Recasting my father -- What the son isn't saying -- Free gifts -- The limits of time travel -- The woman at the dig -- What it means to be loose -- Stone visions -- The rock is the key -- Opening day -- Hunting in the new millennium: a letter to "Field and Stream" -- Bumper stickers on pickup trucks -- The church of Chrysler: a hymn -- Not the usual at McDonald's -- Urban prairie -- Rural electric -- Too much face -- Invisible losses -- Old man Brunner visits the health club -- Canis in excelsis -- Concluding a prayer -- Signs of frost -- All that wasted dead space -- A farmer gets a history lesson -- The artist -- The dog -- On a flatbed behind the baler -- The reward -- What he saved -- A farmer on retirement -- God as an owl.
