Wild comfort: the solace of nature

Introduction

- I. Gladness. 1. The Solace of Snakes

2. Burning Garbage on an Incoming Tide

3. The Happy Basket

4. Suddenly, There Was with the Angel

- II. Solace. 1. My Old Friend, Sorrow

2. Dog Salmon Moon

3. Crossing the River

4. Overnight Fog in the Valley

5. Winter Prayer

6. Never Alone or Weary

7. Winter Geese in a Green Field

8. A Joke My Father Liked to Tell

9. The Recipe for Migas

10. Turning Stones

11. Things with Feathers

12. Morning in Romero Canyon

13. The Patience of Herons

14. The Water and the Wave

15. Stillwater Bay, Columbia River

16. To Mend a Broken Pot

17. Repeat the Sounding Joy

18. The Possum in the Plum Tree

19. The Time for the Singing of Birds

20. If I Hadn't Stopped to Watch the River

- III. Courage. 1. Look, the Rain Has Stopped

2. Twenty Things Morning Reveals

3. How Can I Keep from Singing?

4. Let It All Go (Seven Feathers).