Prologue
Letter from a Star Above Southern Indiana
I. THE NEST
The Nest
Strawberry Patch Song
The Gardener
Chicken in the Woods
Aunt Justine and the Cistern
Godfather's Fishing Knife
Seining Minnows
Camp Carnes Facts
Patoka River Canoe Trip
Patoka River Memories
Early Morning Rounds
The Hay-Baler
Hoosier Hoops
After the Football Game
Urban the Caretaker
Plywood Summer
Wheel Poem
The Storyteller
The Schneebrunzer
II. FRANCONIAN FACES AND FIELDS
What the Map Says
Franconian Faces and Fields: After Andreas Riedel
Road
Franconian Landscape
The Ghost Road
The Curve of Farm Buildings
The Farmer and the Manure
Berta and Georg Haberkamm
Hans and Marie
Suspenders
Julius at the Door
Behind Farm Buildings
Shorn Sheep
Anna's Oven
The Man with the Bread
The Woman in the Barley
Zwetschgenkuchen / Plum Pastry
Eva's Knife
Women Gathering Apples
Apples in the Rain
Three Saturday Sweepers
Woman with a Rake
Women in Potato Field
The Potato Cart
The Village Guards
Black Cat Blues
Going to Church
Shoes Under the Bed
III. THE BRANDENBURG GATE
The Brandenburg Gate: Berlin, 2000
Empty Underground Shelves
Würzburg Sequence: After Gunter Ullrich
Riders Over Würzburg
Black Sun, 1945
Destroyed Facade
A Fruit Tree After the War
What Survives
A Quiet Corner in Thuringia
The Woman in the Wine Store
Petra in the Garden
Schroeder the Franconian Cat
The Girl in the Garden
Spark and Flame
The Blacksmith's Daughter
Cuxland: The Coast
The Lost Picture
III. GOD'S COUNTRY
God's Country
Polished Shoes
A Pretty Small Town 
Second Sister
Prayers and Smoke
Where the Waters Grow Deep
Coming into Her Own
Aunt Verena
Elegy for Small-Town Heroes
Where Trees Are Tall
Squirrel Hunter's Dream
The Piankashaw in the Sycamore
Dark and Deep
What I Found in the Woods
Coming into the Valley
Moon Shadows
This Dust
Legacy
Blood Song
Genug um zu geniessen / Enough to Enjoy
The Time Has Come
Epilogue
The Audience of the Dead