Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems and Translations Book

	In wheat country	5
	Dark leaves lift in light wind	6
	Women who marry into wheat	7
	In a landscape that desperately needs color	8
	I sit on a rickety bench just outside	9
	Looking out through the wide elevator doors	10
	Today, instead of sleeping through the noon hour	11
	Star thistle, Jim Hill mustard, white tops	13
	A dusty black beetle	14
	Looking absurd as a near-sighted scholar	15
	Harvest at its peak	16
	At the top of the elevator	17
	A bee thumps against the dusty window	18
	First there is silence	19
	The rolling hills of wheat expect nothing	20
	At five-thirty in the afternoon	21
	After each truck fine dust settles on the floor	22
	America is a strange man	23
	There's a beetle walking on the ground below me	24
	Beneath an intensely hot sun	25
	Between incoming trucks	26
	With a sandwich	27
	Just outside the elevator	28
	It's surprising how many	29
	Late afternoon, there's a restlessness in the air	30
	From the southwest	31
	Cursing	32
	A dirt-crusted green jeep turns off the highway	33
	Seven o'clock	34
	Through a wide field of stubble	35
	Now as the sun sets, cricket songs	36
	There is no wind	37
	Two white	38
	Five magpies	39
	A wheat rancher drives up	40
	Each day fewer fields remain	41
	The ranchers are selling their wheat early this year	42
	A fieldmouse	44
	Afternoon	45
	At one of the ranches there's a hand	46
	What day is it now?	47
	Blooming	48
	In Walla Walla, cool streams	49
	Near me	50
	Late tonight	51
	Next week I go	52
	Dry, bleached kernals of wheat and barley	53
	Heavy rain now, darker skies	54
	We've come to town	55
	At quitting time	56
	The fields are wider	57
	With the sun low	58
	Sharp lines	59
	Going home	60
	Night along the Columbia, day in Blewett Pass, going home	65
	Two poems from Swede Hill	67
	Just before sleep, I dream of my grandfather returned to his farm in the early spring	69
	My father	71
	For my brother, Don, at Porter Creek, in late February	73
	On Christmas Eve in the hospital, my mother finds she has an enlarged heart	75
	There is no exile where the heart is pure	76
	Steelhead	78
	Answering, for my brother	79
	Considering poverty and homelessness	80
	In praise of my ink bottle	81
	Centuries go by	85
	Seattle in April, cloudy day and high wind	86
	"Storm sinks Greek ship, 281 perish"	88
	East of the mountains, driving to White Swan	91
	Monday morning in Everett, Washington	94
	Americans thinking of religion	96
	Grey afternoon in Seattle during the Viet Nam War	97
	Two poems against the logging companies	98
	Mean dog on country road	100
	Spring in Ish River	101
	Lament for the ancient holy cities	102
	It seemed summer when everything bloomed in Santa Barbara	105
	In the woods above Issaquah	107
	Sitting alone at night, thinking of old promises	108
	On this side of the mountains	110
	Pyrrha and Deucalion	111
	Your angels go with me too	112
	The widow	113
	Two seasons	114
	Spring poem in the Skagit Valley	115
	Dawn	119
	On the way in	121
	Out at Shi Shi	122
	Salmon moon	123
	Fishermen in Neah Bay	124
	Rain poem	126
	A thousand windows	127
	In America	129
	Poem for the naming of the clearing above Shi Shi "never-look-back"	130
	Bear poem	131
	Running into the sea	132
	Friends	134
	Shi Shi	135
	Sunset	136
	Autumn equinox	137
	Why I am singing for the dancer (1978)	141
	How the dancer is carried into the hall of light (1982)	143
	This flower (1982)	146
	Home : a prayer for the world where you found it (1991)	149
	Spring	155
	Summer	156
	The poet	157
	Boxcar	158
	Winter	159
	Joys of the fluteplayer	160
	Matchsticks	163
	Issa	167
	Buson	171
	Basho	174
	And friends	175
	As though the word blue had been dropped into the water	179
	Set it down, carefully	180
	Homage to Ryokan	181
	Singer in the shadows	182
	House of many ancestors	183
	A dream floods the landscape	184
	Like a boat drifting	185
	Ink bottle	189
	Early March in town	190
	Laura's birthday	191
	Enough	192
	Summer solstice	193
	The frog I saved from a snake	194
	Shack work	195
	Thanks to Tony Morefield	196
	Ten by twelve	197
	Lettuce box	198
	Eowyn	199
	Herons and swallows	200
	The big rain of August 1976	201
	Woodpile down to nothing	202
	Two poems for the good given	204
	April has turned cold	205
	Looking for friends in history	206
	Some dust	207
	Shack medicine	208
	Taos mountain	213
	Birds at dawn	215
	The table I keep	216
	A blanket	217
	False life	218
	The ancient peoples	220
	When the wool blankets were woven	222
	Rio Pueblo	225
	Pueblo songs	226
	To one far back in time	229
	Five oranges	233
	Poem	234
	Mid-September at the boomshack in town	235
	Poem to the parrot from Africa	237
	Seven thoughts under the plum tree	240
	Two poems from Disappearing Lake	242
	Frog and me, election eve, 1980	243
	For friends stepping into marriage	245
	The rest of the way	246
	Beetle	247
	Sun shining through a cabbage leaf	250
	Lemon cucumbers	252
	Afternoon light	253
	Afterword	254