First poem -- Nature notes in the morning -- Sprezzatura -- Stanzas for a Sierra morning -- Patches of snow in July -- Second person -- Three old men -- Pablo Neruda: only death -- To be accompanied by flute and zither -- Abbot's Lagoon: October -- Christmas in August -- An argument about poetics imagined at Squaw Valley after a night walk under the mountain -- Cymbeline -- The archaeology of plenty -- Poem not an elegy in a season of elegies -- The poet at nine -- A person should -- Smoking in heaven -- Dream in the summer of my seventy-third year -- Los Angeles: an analysis -- Okefenokee: a story -- For Cecil, after reading Ohio Railroads -- Jersey train -- Sunglasses billboard in Termini station -- Three dreams about buildings -- Pertinent divagations toward an ode to Inuit carvers -- Three propositions about a subject still to be determined -- February notebook: the rains -- Summer storm in the Sierra -- Hotel room -- Large bouquet of summer flowers, or allegory of the imagination -- Nature notes 2 -- Another bouquet of summer flowers, or allegory of mortality -- John Muir, a dream, a waterfall, a moutain ash -- After Xue Di -- Dancing -- The Creech notebook -- Seoul notebook -- Two translations from Anglo-Saxon -- What the modernists wrote about: an informal survey -- A talk at Sewanee -- The four eternities, or the grandfather's tale -- Silence -- The sixth sheikh's sheep's sick -- Montale's notebooks -- Small act of homage -- Notes on the notion of a boundless poetics.