Time and Space: Getting Started 17 -- Loosing the Flood 19 -- Skeletons in Our Stories 22 -- Writing by Heart 24 -- Writing for Your Life 26 -- Ars Poetica 28 -- How You Say a Thing 31 -- A Forest of Symbols 44 -- Writing from Nature 47 -- Through the Window 49 -- Nature Tunes 51 -- Feelers First 55 -- Revisit Your Hometown 58 -- Natural Comparisons 62 -- Hoppergrass 67 -- Hearing the Dirt 71 -- Going to the Source 73 -- Encounters 74 -- Dear Star, Do You Know the Moon? 77 -- Slowing the Speed of Light 82 -- Earth Journey 84 -- Writing from Culture 87 -- Alien Anthropology 89 -- Writing the Currents 91 -- Man-Moth 93 -- Lists 96 -- Define the Color Blue 98 -- Trees like Monstros 99 -- Versions of Translation 101 -- Orchestrations 104 -- Stage Directions 109 -- Art Speaks 111 -- Dream Logic 112 -- Completing Kubla Khan 117 -- Eavesdropping 121 -- Spells, Prophecies, and Prayers 122 -- Wandering the Library 125 -- Writing with Form 127 -- An Introduction to Form 129 -- Genre to Genre 131 -- Vignettes 133 -- Letters Sent or Unsent 135 -- Grammar of the Situation 138 -- Parallel Lines 141 -- Weave of Meter 144 -- Committing a Rhyme 153 -- Stanzas 158 -- Open Season (Open Form Poetry) 165 -- Epigram 169 -- Sonnet 171 -- Sestina 175 -- Villanelle 178 -- Rondel, Rondeau and Triolet 181 -- Pantoum 184 -- Occasions for Reflection (Ode, Homage, Epithalamium, Elegy) 186 -- Haiku, Tanka, Renga 193 -- Ghazal 196 -- Acrostic 200 -- Light Verse (Limerick, Clerihew, Double Dactyl) 202 -- Crossroads (Blues Poems) 204 -- Ballad and Ballade 208 -- Storytelling and Myth-Making 213 -- Time's Arrow 215 -- Bottle, Baseball, Bra 217 -- Anonymous Album 219 -- Scrambled Elements 221 -- A Convincing Story 222 -- Old Myth, New Myth: Archetype and the Classics 224 -- Inhabitation 229 -- In Character 232 -- Tapping the Trickster 234 -- History, Herstory 236 -- A Click of Closure 239 -- Drawing the Circle 242.
