Pt.I. Outriders -- Gnarly -- The Earth's Wild Places -- Siberian Outpost -- Walking the Long and Shady Elwha -- Charles Freer in a Sierra Snowstorm -- Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh -- Artemis and Pan -- Anger, Cattle, and Achilles -- A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away -- The Names of Actaeon's Hounds -- Old New Mexican Genetics -- Polyandry -- Stages of the End of Night and Coming Day -- Pt.II. Locals -- Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany -- Sunday -- Michael des Tombe at the edge of the Canyon the Killigrew Place -- Chiura Obata's Moon -- How to Know Birds -- Starting the Spring Garden and Thinking of Thomas Jefferson -- Log Truck on the 80 -- Stories in the Night -- Morning Songs, Goose Lake -- Fixing the System -- "reinventing North America" -- From the Sky -- Here -- Pt.III. Ancestors -- Eiffel Tundra -- Kill -- Claws / Cause -- Hai-en Temple South Korea Home of the Total Tripitaka Set of Printing Blocks -- Young David in Florence, Before the Kill -- Mu Ch'i's Persimmons -- The Bend in the Vlatava -- The Shrine at Delphi -- Wildfire News -- Otzi Crosses Over -- Seven Brief Poems from Italia -- Askesis, Praxis, Theoria, of the Wild -- Pt.IV. Go Now -- This present moment --