A still beatitude -- Interstate 40 -- The canoeing trip -- Before the tree line -- These perfect days -- The glittering water -- The outcrop -- The origins -- Christ and the Bodhisattva -- The fallacy of the absolute -- In boots and denim -- Cousin at Point Reyes -- A transparent summer morning -- A certain kind of intelligence -- The dandelion and the sparrow -- Holiness and the ceaseless motion -- The cantaloupe and honeydew -- An orange and a rose -- On which images appear -- The white bowl -- The eternal present -- The aesthetics of the mystical -- The first, high cricket cries -- Oh dance and say -- The reprieve -- Our age speaks bitterly -- The beech tree and the dragonfly -- The bottomlands -- The butterfly of ethics -- The wedding -- An interest in oneness -- The sixtieth spring -- A shawl of the sun -- The minuscule of joy -- A simple chore -- In its own kingdom -- A mockingbird in April -- By the side of the road -- April poem -- The hawkweed -- Her turtles, her possums -- Near the WPA bridge -- Minor gods in the coal fields -- The comfort of infinity -- Southern labor -- The Appalachian journey -- Pear tree in autumn -- September evening -- October afternoon -- The sweetgum -- Doves in November -- When the chlorophyll withdraws.