The country I come from: poems

Full circle

The language of place

The language of species

What we lost in southern Indiana

The buffalo trace

What the Miami call themselves

Miami words into English

Song of the Mississinewa

Mississinewa field shrine

The Mississinewa at night

Mississinewa river lament

Mississinewa cottonwood leaf

Lines heard in northern Indiana cornfields

Mayapple

Fire and ice

One voice from many

Pastoral poetics

The corn cave

Hauling hay

Hayloft

Feeding the cattle

Milk music

Adam Schmitt's plums

The labor day boxes

The morning glories

The horseradish man

When the house was new

Woods hymn

Bloodroot

The blackberry bramble

Sassafras

Queen Anne's lace

White oak

His only hickory sapling

The martin box

The potato barrows

Gathering hickory nuts

The quilters

The rock-hitter

Saturday night at the Calumet

Because I could not stop

Song for Bob Dylan

Odysseus in Indiana

Old man in a small-town tavern

Return to a mighty fortress

Song for a sister

The dropped pigskin

Letter from Mattingly country

Dream of a hanging curve

Return to a grape arbor

Dorothy and the Jewish coat

The mandolin and the tenor

Let morning light

Hugging the spirit

Farewell lullaby

At least now

The reunion

Odysseus in the rain.