Maps on endpapers.

Yearbreak -- Writing April -- A breath at thaw -- Return to the wood-turtle stream -- In memory only -- Following the water -- A day in the shadow of a pine -- Transformation -- Gray treefrogs -- Interval with red deer -- Night, distant lightning -- Medicine-smelling earth -- With the gray fox -- Variable dancer -- Walk to the floodplain -- A drink along the way -- Dancing tree -- Hawk-strike -- Brook trout, wood turtle -- Wading Alder Brook -- Oxbow meander -- Fallen buck -- Broken glass -- Boundary marker. Presents a collection of pen-and-ink-illustrated reflections on the ecology of wetland creatures, in a volume that traces the life cycles of such subjects as hawks, tree frogs, and rare wood and spotted turtles.