Why I Wake Early: New Poems Book

	Why I Wake Early	3
	Bone	4
	Freshen the Flowers, She Said	7
	Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?	8
	Beans	10
	The Arrowhead	11
	Trout Lilies	12
	The Poet Goes to Indiana	13
	The Snow Cricket	15
	The Lover of Earth Cannot Help Herself	17
	Have You Seen Blacksnake Swimming?	19
	How Everything Adores Being Alive	20
	Clouds	22
	Spring at Blackwater: I Go Though the Lessons Already Learned	23
	The Lily	24
	Look and See	26
	This World	27
	At Black River	28
	The Marsh Hawk	30
	Breakage	32
	Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?	33
	Snow Geese	34
	What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon	36
	The Dovekie	37
	Something	38
	Logos	40
	Bear	41
	Many Miles	42
	Luna	43
	"Just a minute," said a voice ...	45
	This Morning I Watched the Deer	49
	The Old Poets of China	50
	White-eyes	51
	Yellowlegs	53
	The Best I Could Do	54
	The Wren from Carolina	56
	Some Things, Say the Wise Ones	57
	Mindful	58
	Song of the Builders	60
	Look Again	61
	Goldenrod, Late Fall	62
	November	63
	Daisies	65
	One	66
	The Soul at Last	68
	The Pinewoods	69
	Lingering in Happiness	71