Long life: essays and other writings

Part One: Flow. Flow

Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides

Poem: Can You Imagine?

Three Histories and a Hummingbird

Part Two: Wordsworth's Mountain. Wordsworth's Mountain

Dog Talk

The Perfect Days

Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer

Waste Land: An Elegy

Part Three: Artists of the Beautiful. Emerson: An Introduction

Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse

The House of the Seven Gables

Part Four: Dust. Prose Poem: Are You Okay?

Poem: Softest of Mornings

Dust

Sand Dabs, Seven

Poem: The Morning Walk

Sand Dabs, Eight

Comfort

Sand Dabs, Nine

Home

Poem: Summer Night

Poem: Carrying the Snake to the Garden

Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn

Where I Live

Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning

Prose Poem: One Winter Day.