Table of Contents
Book 1 The Body Life 1
The Red Part 3
When the Body 5
Bathing with Tender Care 7
About Myself 9
Lost in the Milky Way 10
What We Kept 12
Recuerdo 14
The Feet and Where They Travel 15
Lies bout the Body 16
Down from the Sky 17
Bone, Looking at the Pieta 19
If Home Is the Body 20
The Fingers, Writing 22
Bones at the River 24
Creation 26
The Maps 28
Skin 30
The Pine Forest Calls Me 31
Nativity 33
Embodied 34
Book 2 Old Mother 37
Eagle Feather Prayer 39
We Have Walked Down Past 40
Walking by Stolen Creek 41
Buffalo Road: Leaving South Dakota 42
Old Mother 44
That Stone from the River 45
The Buffalo Again 46
The Names of Creeks 47
The Mountain Between 50
A Need for Happiness 51
Outside My Cabin 53
Old Mother Remembers 55
Memory 56
Watching Over 58
We Used to Have Pearls 60
Holly Springs, Mississippi 61
Distance Not Time 63
Book 3 The Radiant Field 65
God of the Prairies 67
One Creation 68
Ceremony for the Seeds 69
The Radiant Field 70
A History of Kindness 71
Remember 73
Sweet Silence 75
Honey. My Friend 77
Sunshine 79
Some New Marvel 81
Isn't It Love 83
The Writing of Snow 85
The Long Clouds 86
War Story: Heard 88
Fences 89
Tulsa 90
All Angels in the Dark 92
Peeling an Apple 94
Book 4 The Other Country 95
A Night in Turkey 97
The Camel 99
In the Great Desert 100
Home on the Island 101
Sky Above a Crumbling World 103
River Singing 105
Book 5 The Current Veins 107
The Kill 109
The Bears Eating 111
Burying the Horse 112
Haunting 117
To Be Held 119
Arctic Night, Lights Across the Sky 120
Dear-Child 121
Absences 122
Water Gods of the Next World 124
Fawn 126
This Morning 128
I Saw Them Dancing 129
For the Women 130
White Deer, Your Direction I Follow 131
Grace 133
Here Is 135
The Current Veins of History 136
Author's Note and Acknowledgments 139