Poetry matters / Kathryn Winograd --
Of watersheds and water folk --
In the rhythm of the rivers --
Colorado, mother of rivers --
In scarcity the opportunity for community. Pueblo people of Mesa Verde ; Wedding at Hovenweep ; Admires ducks ; I see Sacagawea ; The song of Meriwether Lewis ; Lewis and Ives ; Acequia Madre ; Acequia Madre is shut ; They call me squaw man ; Code of the passing through people ; Powell's run ; Mappers ; Back home within a week ; Come in, then! ; Ludlow station --
Settling in. Flood of the Big Thompson, a report ; Dance of the heron reel ; Stegner ; Second Creek ; I've seen the mountains falling ; Divide ; Red rocks ; Grandfather ; Old Bent's Fort ; From the gap ; Reconnoiter ; A Colorado River journey ; Coloradans ; My love is like a river ; Home ; Coming into fall
The edge of things. Mesa Verde ; A fox in elder berry rain ; Lift lines ; Siren ; Shoulder strap ; Dear friend ; Out the window ; Prayer flags ; Celebrate the callers ; Ten point agenda for the public lands ; Energy policy ; Good Colorado headwaters education ; The hydrologic cycle ; Betsy's window ; Rainbows ; Galadriel's mirror ; Spring ; Weathering ; If I could choose ; Made for blue ; Paradise? ; August nation --
Urban wild perches. The owls are back! ; Civil engineers ; Verify ; Invocation ; Some snow ; Your voice arrived ; Powerful versions ; I like the feel of a book ; April cold front ; Old friend ; A perfect halo ; Channels ; Many rivers ; Ellipse ; Cottonwood ; One body, one spirit, many futures ; Ms. Dusty Miller ; I am a western person ; We call it the end of the day ; Invocation II ; The story ; Polis
Light hurts. A few slender needles ; Hear the cricket ; Lord, help us ; The day the mountains scream ; Split rock ; A science lesson ; Raining owls ; Indian summer ; Love's return ; Rock that wears ; Sweet summer solstice ; Skins ; Mad with the moon ; Monet's water garden ; Welcome, rain! ; White moths, yellow butterflies ; Keystone agreement ; The difference between a duck ; Hydropathic therapy ; Inheritance ; Energy ; What I like about Cheesman Reservoir ; The ice machine ; River without water ; Being of rivers flowing ; Which Colorado shall we be? ; To a friend who would be Secretary of Interior --
Setting out. Labyrinth ; On being sworn ; The great outdoor Colorado trust ; Drift of an upslope wind ; You buy the backpack ; How journeys begin ; Right equipment ; My tent ; Backpacking ; Slipstream ; Thanks for traveling ; May I tell you? ; Fellow swimmer ; Oxbows ; Pebbles ; The first apple blossoms ; Calibrating the model ; California water ; Farming for birds ; Beam-drift ; The Firehole River --
Fire and drought. Cup a match ; Going to Gunnison ; Drought ; The great unconformity ; Yield ; Well I never been to Nineveh ; I'd like to be a desert rat ; Skipping stones ; Frontier ; You know what water means ; Out here ; Mushroom cloud ; Rain dance ; Hail and the hoppers ; Raindrop! ; Epiphany ; Slow drip evening ; Now the diminishing ; Forgetting ; Dowser ; A short ditty ; Pterodactyl wings ; I'm confused ; Franklin St. Hybrid ; This year's water buffalo
Gathering. Your special music ; By the roadside ; Humid morning vapor song ; Trail building ; Peace ; Canoe ; An old Colorado story, "A major mining environmental restoration project is ahead" ; I believe there must be ; Closing up the cabin ; Rimrock ; The way you've not yet been ; At all ; In a high wind ; Grace ; Evaporation ; Easy on the water ; Broken compass ; The eagle or the otter ; Timberline ; Redux ; Disaster ; You travel light ; Any good camp stove ; The hills are always there ; Wondering ; Many feathers and some glue ; Hydraulic principle ; Black songbird sunflowers ; Aquifers ; Woodspeople ; Some day ; Mares' tails ; Welcome! ; Hear the waters sort themselves ; Fodder for a future work --
Cinch my filament. Old panthers ; Being wings ; Brooke ; Blessings on your way ; Cedar ; Gentle night ; The mother load ; Buckets to the moon ; Rock Creek ; Freshet young am I ; Wedges ; May for you ; When I am with you ; When the Mayor Domo calls ; Come on back all you graces ; Pool ; Fisherman's knot ; Late arrival ; I draw from such a little well ; William Stafford's yarn ; Droplet ; Sam and Jacqueline, Jacqueline and Sam ; Sam and Leonard ; Agua fuego ; Ode to the Water Commissioners ; The tiger and the chalice ; Peach tulip ; Mercator projections ; May 1 ; Mountains are my church ; Different tune ; They have made of Sam Frodo Spiderman ; Sparrows --
Essay : John Wesley Powell, scientist, poet and botched politician : how a non-college graduate invented from the rhythms of nature a western persona