Contents:
One - Fire, Water, Earth, Breath
• Three McKenzie River Poems: Last of August; Cabin 4, Cedarwood Lodge; Drouth
• March in Beloit
• The Pacific Slope
• In the Siskiyous in May
• Keeping Rocks
• Looking for Proxy Falls
• Consider
• Sleeping with Cats
• From Lorenzo
• Gulls Puddling: January
• Buzzard Visit
• Praying to Ecola Creek
• Mouth of the Klamath
• Sun Setting at Cannon Beach
Two - Fury and Sorrow
• Riding the "Coast Starlight"
• Processing Words
• Marilyn
• In That Desert
• The Hands of Torturers
• Werewomen
• Cry No More
• Her Silent Daughter
• Sentence
• Phoenicians
• The Vigil for Ben Linder
• Fragments from the Women’s Writing
Three - Kin and Kind
• A True Story
• The Book to Have
• Dreaming California
• For Judith
• The Years
• The Woman and the Soul
• The Queen of Spain
• My Hero
• Puye: An Anasazi Village
• Concerning Theo
• Song for Caroline
• Song for Elisabeth
Four - Dancing on the Sun
• Going Out With Peacocks
• Bale’s Mill in the Napa Valley
• "Sunt lacrimae rerum"
• My Music
• A Painting
• Semen
• The Red Dancers
• Ariadne Dreams
• Waking: Two Poems
• Getting On
• To the Next Guests
• A Discourse on Method
• What I Have
• The Hard Dancing