Lifelines
I. from Letter From A Distant Land
Nightsong
First Lesson
Shag
Chart 1203
Storm in a Formal Garden
Letter from a Distant Land
II. from The Islanders
The Second Noon
Was a Man
These Men
The Tower
Sea-Change
The Islanders
III. from Weathers And Edges
The Day of the Tide
Fairy Tale
Cleaning Out the Garage
Denying the Day's Mile
After the Thresher
Deer Isle
Tenants' Harbor
IV. from Margins
Crosstrees
To Chekhov
Lines from an Orchard Once Surveyed by Thoreau
Supposition with Qualification
Thanksgiving
Hard Country
Labrador River
V. from Available Light
Entry
Stove
A Late Spring: Eastport
The Way Tide Comes
Adding It Up
Wear
Dreamscape
A Dream of Russia
How to See Deer
The Incredible Yachts
Prides Crosssing
It Is Being
Ways
Word
Natural History
Graffito
Strip
Lives
VI. from Before Sleep
Not to Tell Lies
Aside from the life
Words for the Room
In this gray depression
Falling Apart
Flinching
Noam was in intensive care
Of Whales and Men: 1864
A Slow Breaker
Recall
His nurse, at bedside
Fog
Nothing is sure
Rates
Generation
The Young
We used to say
Dragging
Durward: setting his trawl
Poem for the Turn of the Century
When the nurse
Calendar
The dark comes down
Ossipee: November
Ord kept asking
Syntax
Nothing is given
Old Man
No matter how I feel
Mary's, After Dinner
Thinking About Hannah Arendt
This Day After Yesterday
Gathering Greens
Lichens
Thoreau Near Home
Tree Nursery
All night the wind
The Valley Road
By self-definition
Eaton's Boatyard
Nothing is more than
Building Her
Nothing answers
Dayrise
Given this day
Before Sleep
The House in the Trees
VII. from Relations
To Think
Growing Up in Kankakee
Public Broadcast
Dreamboat
Procession
A Man in Maine
Small Town
Beyond Equinox
Fire on the Island
Species
Over Antarctica
Stonington
Table
Saying It
After the Rebuilding
Evening
A Two Inch Wave
Relations
VIII. from Selves
Garden
Zeros
Game
Civilities
Fallback
Calling
Heading Out
Rule One
Among Houses
Dark
Directions
Sixty
Seeing
Words Made from Letters
Marches
Provisions
Thanksgiving
Presence
IX. from Pairs
First Night
Requiescat: Western Union
Navigation
Prepositions
Looking
Places Without Names
Backcountry
Pairs
Talk About Walking
Linesquall
Terms
Hope
Half-Life
Outlook
Hand
Alba
Sixty-three
Chances
Reawakening in New England
Fog-Talk
Seventy
X. Lifelines
Long Afternoons in Dakota
Lifetimes
Hot 5th of July
Views
Late Wakings
Recallings
The Man Who Lost His Wife
An Old Airman Who Knows Who He Was
Coming To
Writing It Down
Ageless Minutes
Identification
Within
Narrow Road, Presidents' Day
Reach Road: In Medias Res
Again, the Solstice
Passage Without Rites
