The chance to love everything -- The gesture -- Porcupine -- Toad -- One hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day -- The kitten -- Ghosts -- Carrying the snake to the garden -- The opossum -- This is the one -- At herring cove -- Coyote in the dark, coyotes remembered -- Turtle -- The other kingdoms -- Swimming with otter -- Black snake -- Five a.m. in the pinewoods -- Humpbacks -- Moles -- The snow cricket -- Desire -- Black swallowtail -- Whelks -- A meeting -- The gift -- The Truro bear -- Alligator poem -- The hermit crab -- Hannah's children -- Pipefish -- This too -- Swoon -- How turtles come to spend the winter in the aquarium, then are flown south and released back into the sea -- The poet goes to Indiana -- The summer day -- Mink -- Percy (one) -- Percy (two) -- Little dog's rhapsody in the night (three) -- Percy (four) -- News of Percy (five) -- Percy (six) -- Percy (seven) -- Percy and books (eight) -- Percy (nine) -- I ask Percy how he lives his life (ten) -- Percy at his bath, or, ambiguity (eleven) -- Percy at breakfast (twelve) -- Percy speaks while I am doing taxes (thirteen).