Walden Wanderings

"The universe is wider than our views of it."
- Henry David Thoreau

Contents

Introduction

Walden

Dew Drops
Sunrise Surprise
So What's Cooking?
A Strictly Charcoal Sketch
Drawing Water
Night Vision
Still Walled-In
I'll Take the High Road
Spending a Year at Walden
One Night at Walden Pond
Unreal
Autumn Cometh

Thoreau

On Building Thoreau's Cabin For Lincoln-Sudbury
The Day I Kidnapped Thoreau
Walden As Seen From The Railroad
The Nature of Words
I've Been to the Mountaintop
In Thoreau's Cabin (At Night)

New England Autumn

The Dax
Glimpse From A Bike
Tripping
OK, So It Was Only Foliage Season in Vermont
Morning Request
Autumn Passage
Almost Too Much
Columbus Day Blues
Watch Out!
They Also Serve...
October 7, 2000
It's Called Hope
Autumn Fragments
Jam Session
If Your're Not A Squirrel...
Flotilla

Other Nature Poems

Two Poems To My Plants
Winter '81
Moment Of Truth
Scare Blue!
Seven Van Cortlandt Place
Barbecue
Witness
Thunderstorm
The Muddy River
Glimpse From A Bike
Momentary Confusion
Road's Scholar
Under The Beech
No Surrender
Northeast Kingdom
Maple Ave.
Color Studies
Unlikely
On The Menu
I Think This Happened
The Lathing Of My Dreams
I Can't Resist
Waiting
Life's A Beech
R.S.V.P.
Come Out Old Moon
Ballet De L'Heron
Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Line
Taking It Too Far
Stark Raving
Water Row Alert
Ferns
Aglow
Farewell, Too, To Water Row
Same Old, Same Old
No Visa Was Required
The Math of Water Row
On The Row
No Relief
So it Seemed
Lost
Last Light
Treasures
Three Good Questions
I Turned My Head
Hope
We'll Miss Your Place Against The Sky
Raucous Caucus


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