Recognition -- I. In the company of flowers -- Almost lost moment -- Ambition -- Your dog playing with a coyote -- Ability to hold territory -- Blind dog/seeing girl -- Doe browsing salal berries -- II. Little inside out dream -- Dream cancel -- Stolen dress -- Glass impresses -- Hummingbird-mind -- One deer at dusk -- III. Correction -- Sully -- Retroactive father -- Earth -- The seemingly domesticated -- Reaching -- Right-minded person -- In the too-bright café -- IV. Let's store these hours -- Season of burnt-out candelabras -- The branches of the maple -- Yet to be born weather -- I want to be loved like somebody's beloved dog in America -- While I was away -- V. Without -- Deer path enigma -- The favorite cup -- What does it say -- VI. Bus to Belfast -- Is, is not -- As the diamond -- During the Montenegrin poetry reading -- Curfew -- Eddie's steps -- Four-footed -- The gold dust of the linden trees -- Blue eyelid lifting -- VII. Button, button -- Breath -- To an Irishman painting in the rain -- Encounter -- Planet Greece -- Cloud-path -- VIII. Oliver -- A "sit" with Eileen -- Remembering each other while together -- Opening -- Word of mouth -- Daylong visitor -- Caress -- March moon -- Three stars -- Afterword. Writing from the edge: a poet of two Northwests.