The Leaf Table of Contents
Early Winter 11
At Logan Field 12
Funny Thing About Flies 14
Poetry Workshop 15
Nothing That Happens 16
Breathing Creatures 18
Passing through Wisdom 20
Evening 22
Mending My Mother's Clothes 24
Obituary 26
Flamenco Red Tulips 27
Comet Hyakutake* 28
After Kayaking across Auke Bay 30
The Flying Man 31
The Leaf 32
Reconciliation on Blue Mountain 34
One of the Many Decisions 36
Redemption 37
When My Mother Died 38
Gurney Man 39
Putting Things Right 42
Ars Poetica, Sunday Morning Enroute 45
Mona Lisa 46
A Death on the Farm 47
The Heron 48
Master Heron 49
The Heron - 3 50
Paperwhites on a Windowsill 52
Bee Keeper of Issyk-Kul 53
U-Haul Box 54
Wild Animal 55
Vaux's Swift 56
Woman in Blue, Without Parasol 58
Issyk-Kul Picnic 59
Fourth Flight over Grand Canyon 60
Sketching in Charcoal 62
Father's Day 63
Blizzard at Ground Zero 64
Early Winter 11
At Logan Field 12
Funny Thing About Flies 14
Poetry Workshop 15
Nothing That Happens 16
Breathing Creatures 18
Passing through Wisdom 20
Evening 22
Mending My Mother's Clothes 24
Obituary 26
Flamenco Red Tulips 27
Comet Hyakutake* 28
After Kayaking across Auke Bay 30
The Flying Man 31
The Leaf 32
Reconciliation on Blue Mountain 34
One of the Many Decisions 36
Redemption 37
When My Mother Died 38
Gurney Man 39
Putting Things Right 42
Ars Poetica, Sunday Morning Enroute 45
Mona Lisa 46
A Death on the Farm 47
The Heron 48
Master Heron 49
The Heron - 3 50
Paperwhites on a Windowsill 52
Bee Keeper of Issyk-Kul 53
U-Haul Box 54
Wild Animal 55
Vaux's Swift 56
Woman in Blue, Without Parasol 58
Issyk-Kul Picnic 59
Fourth Flight over Grand Canyon 60
Sketching in Charcoal 62
Father's Day 63
Blizzard at Ground Zero 64
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