John James Audubon / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Introduction Loons mating / David Wagoner --
Drifting off / Seamus Heaney --
Mother Carey's hen / David Yezzi --
Birds / Robert Creeley --
Magnificent frigatebird / George Green --
Blue booby / James Tate --
Heron / Will H. Ogilvie --
Hope and love / Jane Hirshfield --
On the sight of swans in Kensington Gardens / Charles Lamb --
On the marriage of friends / Greg Delanty --
Swan and shadow / John Hollander --
Wild geese / Mary Oliver --
From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury / Greg Delanty --
Still, citizen sparrow / Richard Wilbur --
To a farmer who hung five hawks on his barbed wire / David Wagoner --
Evening hawk / Robert Penn Warren --
You and I saw hawks exchanging the prey / James Wright --
from The parliament of fowls / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Peregrine falcon, New York City / Robert Cording --
Make-falcon / Linda Gregorson --
Dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman --
Pheasant / Sylvia Plath --
Bird at the leather mill / Joshua Mehigan --
Plover / Kathleen Jamie --
Shorebird-watching / Amy Clampitt --
On a 3 1/2 oz. lesser yellowlegs, departed Boston August 28, shot Martinique September 3 / Eamon Grennan --
Sandpiper / Elizabeth Bishop --
Ballet of the fifth year / Delmore Schwartz --
Seagulls / John Updike --
Kittiwake / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson --
After reading Peterson's guide / Linda Pastan --
Lost parrot / Susan Mitchell --
Contrast; the parrot and the wren / William Wordsworth --
Great horned owl / Charles Simic --
Barred owl / Richard Wilbur --
To a captive owl / Henry Timrod --
Great gray owl / Annie Finch --
Chimney swifts / Mark Jarman --
Swifts / Anne Stevenson --
Humming-bird / D.H. Lawrence --
Kingfisher / Lisa Williams --
Kingfisher / Amy Clampitt --
Woodpecker keeps returning / Jane Hirshfield --
Woodpecker / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --
Arts of joy / Kevin Stein --
Black Phoebe / Timothy Steele --
Shrike / Henry David Thoreau --
Still missing the jays / Stanley Plumly --
Magpie's song / Gary Snyder --
Paired things / Kay Ryan --
Calves not chosen / Linda Gregg --
Crows start demanding royalties / Lucia Perillo --
Questions poems ask / Lawrence Raab --
Ravens at Deer Creek / Robert Wrigley --
Ravens of Denali / Dorianne Laux --
Ode to the swallow / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Emperor's bird's-nest / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Watching the swallows / Dorothy Wordsworth --
from The princess; O swallow / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Home-thoughts, from Abroad / Robert Browning --
Cliff swallows / Debra Nystrom --
Blue swallows / Howard Nemerov --
December notes / Nancy McCleery --
In Walden wood the chickadee / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Titmouse / Walter de la Mare --
Bluebirds / Henry David Thoreau --
Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy --
Thrushes / Siegfried Sassoon --
I have a bird in spring / Emily Dickinson --
I dreaded that first robin so / Emily Dickinson --
Love's good-morrow / Thomas Heywood --
To Robin Red-breast / Robert Herrick --
Poor Cock Robin / Robert Service --
Death of Lesbia's bird / Catullus --
Of the air / Daniel Halpern --
Cedar waxwings / Jonathan Aaron --
Cedar waxwing on Scarlet Firethorn / Stanley Plumly --
Warbler announcing spring at morning / Shotetsu --
Happy bird / John Clare --
Bird watching / John Ciardi --
Cardinal / Henry Carlile --
Cardinals in a shower at Union Square / Stanley Plumly --
Pair of tanagers / Mark Jarman --
Brave sparrow / Michael Collier --
Love song / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Christmas sparrow / Billy Collins --
Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy --
Partita for sparrows / Brenda Hillman --
Visitation / Jeffrey Harrison --
Old acquaintance / Mark Jarman --
Call of the junco bird / Edward Hirsch --
Redwing blackbirds / Robert Penn Warren --
Red-winged blackbirds / Juliana Gray --
Birds / William Carlos Williams --
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens --
Keeping track / Bob Hicok --
Grackles / Lisa Wiliams --
Rose-breasted grosbeak / Juliana Gray --
Faithful friend / William Cowper --
Caged goldfinch / Thomas Hardy --
For the birds: a charm of goldfinches / Cecilia Woloch --
Rara avis / Brendan Constantine.