One long river of song: notes on wonder

Joyus voladoras --

A shrew --

Tigers --

Leap --

Two hearts --

The deceased --

Eating dirt --

The anchoviad --

Illuminos --

Times tables --

My devils --

We did --

The sea --

Catch --

The meteorites --

First kiss --

[Silence] --

The final frontier --

Jones Beach --

The wonder of the look on her face --

The old typewriter in the basement --

The old Methodist church on Vashon Island --

Testimonio --

Mea culpa --

Brian Doyle interviews Brian Doyle --

Pants : a note --

20 things the dog ate --

The Daoine sídhe --

Angeline --

The way we do not say what we mean when we say what we say --

On not "beating" cancer --

The hawk --

The praying mantis moment --

Heartitecture --

The greatest nature essay ever --

The creature beyond the mountains --

Hoop --

Our daily murder --

Because it's hard --

Irreconcilable dissonance --

Lost Dog Creek --

Raptorous --

An leabharlann --

The bullet --

Fishering --

Tyee --

Everyone thinks that awful comes by itself, but it doesn't --

The Four Gospels --

God --

Clairtonica Street --

Dawn and Mary --

His last game --

Memorial Day --

100th Street --

God again --

Beer with Peter --

The lair --

A song for nurses --

Cool things --

Address unknown --

Hawk words --

Bird to bird --

To the beach --

Chessay --

Lines hatched on the back porch of Eudora Welty's House in Jackson, Mississippi --

Joey's doll's other arm --

The room in the firehouse --

Selections from letters and comments on my writing --

Billy Blake's trial --

On All Souls Day --

Two anesthesiologists --

Joey --

A prayer for you and yours --

His listening --

His weirdness --

The tender next minute --

His holiness the Dalai Lama, manifestaion of Chenrezig, bodhisattva of compassion, stops the car along the road to watch children play soccer --

Two on two --

What were once pebbles are now cliffs --

Last prayer.