1. Folks and home -- Waking in the Flint Hills -- Native species -- Afternoon -- Great Blue heron -- That undiscovered country -- October evening on the fenceline -- Epitaph in a silent land -- September baptism -- Ice storm -- Private wintering -- After snowfall -- When the wind dies -- Death in the woods -- Scuplture below the slope -- From Lily's pond -- A ghost of a chance -- Spring evening -- After the interview -- Song for the dancing dog: The twenties -- "Above the fruited plain" -- Quiet night -- Goat lesson -- Dream -- Valentine's Day -- Grandfather -- Divorce -- Secret viewing -- A ring of authority -- Kansas farmer -- Report from the country -- After that party -- Brief candle -- Country evening -- Of drought and age -- 10/21/04: The old folks at home -- Don't take it personally -- "The more things change--" -- Ghost dance -- News loop -- Excursion -- Passing the old home place -- White sign -- The wreck of the whisperer -- The third September in Sixty-three -- II. The run of the place -- Anniversary scenes -- The cog rail line -- On the road -- Summer night -- Six months later (Jan. '94) -- Stafford ball back home -- Fall morning at the Santa Fe tracks -- Tired in Dodge -- Driver fatigue -- Hallucination II -- The gods of the mind's eye -- A haunting -- Off the bus in Flagstaff -- All the news that's fit-- -- His story -- Pack mentality -- In darkness one frosty night -- Tree huggers -- Invocation -- Late in the afternoon -- Delivery man -- Sandwich shop -- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny -- Hands -- "Some good spirit or god" -- A show me state -- Motivational speaker -- What was it like? -- Observation trek -- By starlight -- Grace -- Secret Christmas letter -- New myths for old -- Her garden, her dream -- O'Keeffe -- A private tribe.
