To go to Lena -- I. Into the corn -- Fences -- The raccoon tree -- Cat moving kittens -- Beyond Mirror Lake -- The windbreak -- American glue factory -- Chekhov -- Three radios -- Hired hands -- Water witching -- Apparition of knives -- Scrapper Kevin -- The vampire -- Building a temple for the field mice -- Father and son: Barcelona -- Grasshoppers -- Some haiku found scrawled in the margins of The old farmer's almanac -- II. The mechanic's children -- The Shaker abecedarius -- The streets of Turn -- Outside the Anne Frank House -- The crutches of Lourdes -- The only tavern in Hyde, Wisconsin -- The spider -- Factory town -- Street performer: Asheville, North Carolina -- The bow -- Cottonpicker -- Atomic fireball -- Soap operas -- The blind -- The bombing of hospitals -- Wounded men seldom come home to die -- Elegy for Thomas Merton -- Premature elegy for Claude Eatherly -- We defy augury -- The man without oxen trembles -- Swatting flied -- That particular villages -- Drone -- The witness tree. III. Cicadas -- Flyover country -- White lie -- The capacity of speech -- N Judah -- Break in the weather -- Dead dogs -- Growing cold -- Lament of the man who picks up dead animals -- Country things -- Ode to flour -- Things we don't often think of -- Film of the Building of a coffin viewed in reverse -- The twain -- Feathers -- The light at the end.
