Life around Us: Selected Poems on Nature Book

	Foreword by the Author
	For Instance	1
	The Willows of Massachusetts	3
	The Cat as Cat	4
	Revivals	5
	April in Ohio	7
	Ceremonies	8
	Those Who Want Out	9
	The Stricken Children	10
	Tragic Error	12
	Engraved	13
	Sound of the Axe	14
	The Vron Woods (North Wales)	15
	Web	17
	The Braiding	18
	At One	19
	Urgent Whisper	20
	Protesting at the Nuclear Test Site	21
	What It Could Be	23
	It Should Be Visible	25
	Chant: Sunset, Somerville, Late Fall '75	26
	Heights, Depths, Silence, Unceasing Sound of the Surf	27
	From the Trains, Eastward	28
	The Cabbage Field	30
	Concurrence	31
	Brother Ivy	32
	Praise of a Palmtree	33
	Come into Animal Presence	34
	The Life of Others	35
	The Life Around Us	36
	"Silent Spring"	37
	In California: Morning, Evening, Late January	39
	Flying High	42
	Mappemonde	44
	The Reminder	46
	In the Woods	48
	Indian Summer	49
	Creature to Creature	51
	A Reward	52
	The Almost-Island	53
	What One Receives from Living Close to a Lake	55
	Salvation	56
	Living	57
	Settling	58
	Elusive	59
	Morning Mist	60
	Effacement	61
	Presence	62
	The 6:30 Bus, Late May	63
	Midsummer Eve	64
	The Mountain Assailed	65
	Pentimento	66
	Mirage	67
	Looking Through	68
	Whisper	69
	Open Secret	70
	Witness	71
	Against Intrusion	72
	Forest Altar, September	73
	A South Wind	74
	Sojourns in the Parallel World	75
	Notes	77