| Preface | 15 |
| The Hopeless Kill (1956), Dead Letters Sent (1958), and With Love To Lesbia (1960) | |
| Truth: the Search | 23 |
| Resignation | 25 |
| Ritual | 26 |
| A Walk in the City | 27 |
| I Will Learn to Bear the Sting of Fire | 28 |
| The Hopeless Kill | 29 |
| Dead Letters Sent | 30 |
| The Hawk | 34 |
| To Lesbia from Catullus, 1958 | 35 |
| Catullus to Lesbia, 1958 | 35 |
| I Am The Sun (1976) | |
| I Am The Sun | 39 |
| I See With My Own Eyes | 43 |
| North: Poems of Home (1977) | |
| First Rule | 49 |
| Gowane | 50 |
| Cold Creek | 52 |
| Home | 53 |
| Mulleins Are My Arms | 55 |
| Land | 56 |
| Dancing Back Strong the Nation (1979) | |
| Listen, the old woman came here | 61 |
| I Went North | 62 |
| Drums | 63 |
| The Women | 64 |
| Dance | 65 |
| Moccasin | 66 |
| Going Home | 68 |
| The Steelworker | 69 |
| Legacy | 70 |
| Yaikini | 72 |
| In My Sixth August | 74 |
| Wild Strawberry | 75 |
| Faye | 77 |
| In the Flow | 78 |
| Only As Far As Brooklyn (1981) | |
| Boys | 81 |
| I Shall Not Write of Love | 82 |
| Winkte | 83 |
| Papago I | 85 |
| Papago II | 86 |
| After Reading The Greek Poet | 87 |
| Comanche of the Yamaha | 88 |
| Kodachrome Double Exposure | 89 |
| Kneading the Blood (1981) | |
| Strawberrying | 93 |
| The Parts We Keep | 94 |
| Boston Tea Party (1982) | |
| Boston Tea Party | 99 |
| The Smell of Slaughter (1982) | |
| Sacrifice | 107 |
| Boyhood Country Creek | 108 |
| They Tell Me I Am Lost | 109 |
| In Country Light | 112 |
| Oh, Wendy, Arthur | 113 |
| Horses | 114 |
| Blackrobe (1982) | |
| Peacemaker | 117 |
| Aiionwatha | 118 |
| Rouen, France | 119 |
| At Sea | 120 |
| Les Hures | 121 |
| First Meeting With Kiotsaeton | 122 |
| Kiotsaeton | 124 |
| Cardinal Richelieu | 125 |
| Approaching the Mohawk Village | 126 |
| Bear (One) | 127 |
| Among the Mohawks | 128 |
| The People of the Flint | 129 |
| Wolf Aunt (One) | 130 |
| Wolf Aunt (Two) | 131 |
| His Visions | 134 |
| Bear (Two) | 136 |
| October 18, 1646 | 139 |
| The French Informal Report | 140 |
| Turtle | 141 |
| Tekawitha | 143 |
| Rokwaho | 144 |
| The Mama Poems (1984) | |
| 1911 | 147 |
| Coming to an Understanding | 149 |
| Sometimes, Injustice | 150 |
| Mama Failed to Kill the Rat | 151 |
| Inheritance | 152 |
| Wake | 153 |
| Picking Blackberries | 154 |
| Joshua Clark | 156 |
| Black River, Summer 1981 | 160 |
| Telephone Call | 162 |
| Mama | 164 |
| December | 167 |
| May 15, 1982 | 168 |
| Reverberation | 170 |
| 1982 | 171 |
| Is Summer This Bear (1985) | |
| Osheranoha | 175 |
| 12 Moons | 176 |
| Wolf | 177 |
| Redtail | 178 |
| Listening for the Elders | 180 |
| Graveyards | 182 |
| Kaherawak's Birthday | 184 |
| Greyhounding This America (1988) | |
| A Partial Explanation | 189 |
| For Cherokee Marie | 190 |
| Sand Creek, Colorado | 191 |
| The Yellowstone | 193 |
| Monet | 197 |
| When in Reality | 198 |
| Canyon de Chelly, Return, 1978 | 199 |
| November Sierras, 1976 | 201 |
| Wanda on the Seashore | 202 |
| Reading Poems in Public | 203 |
| Humors and/or Not So Humorous (1988) | |
| On Second Thought | 207 |
| Heard Poem | 208 |
| The Comet | 209 |
| Young Male | 210 |
| Sofky: Seminole Soup | 212 |
| Friendship Days at Akwesasne | 213 |
| Ojibwa | 214 |
| Oroville High, California | 215 |
| Inuit | 216 |
| Reno Hill...Little Bighorn | 217 |
| Listening to Leslie Silko Telling Stories | 218 |
| The Short and the Long of It (1990) | |
| In The Vines | 221 |
| Postcard | 223 |
| Walking Woods With Dogs | 229 |
| Mysteries | 232 |
| Dugout | 235 |
| Last Mornings in Brooklyn (1991) | |
| Saturday Morning Between 7 A.M. and 12 Noon | 251 |
| 7 A.M.... | |
| The yellow Honda | |
| It's a hot day... | |
| His t-shirt... | |
| A youth... | |
| Apollo and David... | |
| Helene pushes Evan's carriage... | |
| His hawk feather | |
| I know his name is Browning,... | |
| Norman Mailer... | |
| He stands, he leans,... | |
| Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant (1992) | |
| I, Tekonwatonti | 257 |
| Molly Brant to Willie | 259 |
| Sir William's Reply to Molly | 260 |
| Molly: Report Back to the Village | 261 |
| General Jeffrey Amherst | 262 |
| Sir William Johnson: On His Death Bed | 263 |
| Molly: At His Death | 264 |
| Molly | 265 |
| Call Me...Woman | 267 |
| On Second Thought (1995) | |
| For Brett | 271 |
| Recuerdo | 272 |
| Sunflower | 273 |
| On the Jetty | 274 |
| Common Days: A Place Record (1998) | |
| Spring | 277 |
| Michael | 277 |
| Van of Students | 277 |
| My Lynn (W) | 278 |
| Wildflower | 279 |
| Above the Saranac | 280 |
| Ghosts | 281 |
| Sula | 282 |
| In the Time of the Present (2000) | |
| New Song | 285 |
| Photograph | 286 |
| Roman Nose: Cheyenne Warrior | 289 |
| O/Rain in the Face | 292 |
| Mask | 294 |
| The Hands of Annie-Mae Aquash | 296 |
| Mood Piece | 299 |
| Writing a Love Letter I Know You Will Never Receive | 300 |
| "Why is Scarface Your Favorite Mountain?" | 302 |
| Sweat | 303 |
| Pima | 306 |
| Dancing at Oneida Nation | 307 |
| An American Night | 308 |
| Christmas | 309 |
| The Note | 311 |
| Tekonwatonti, German Flats | 314 |
| Essence | 315 |
| Uncollected Poems (2001) | |
| Visiting Elaine | 319 |
| Going to the Mountains | 322 |
| Sky Woman | 324 |
| Still Life at Cedar House | 327 |
| Tongue-Tied | 328 |
| Cudweed | 329 |
| Chokeberry | 333 |
| Indominitable Spirit | 334 |
| Stone Throwing | 336 |
| Reflected Eberhart | 338 |
| Gold | 339 |
| You Know Who You Were, Are, Will Be | 343 |
| Words to the Indian Woman of the West Coast | 346 |
| Okanagan | 348 |
| El Paso Del Norte | 349 |
| Allen Ginsberg | 352 |
| Andrew's Dilemma | 355 |
| Feo/Bello | 356 |
| Existential Dread | 358 |
| Detail | 362 |
| Maurice Kenny: A Brief Biography | 364 |
