Contents: [42 poems] When I Can Fly … 7 • Be My Circle … 8 • Being Fat … 9 • Going Away … 10 • Coming Home … 10 • Birds Asleep … 12 • City in Summer … 13 • In Quiet Night … 14 • Construction … 15 • The Dead Ones … 16 (Winter leaves) • Green Park Dream … 17 • How Little I Was … 18 • If the Jay Would Stop … 19 • Real Estate … 20 (pigeons) • O Beautiful Here … 21 • It Happens Once in a While … 22 (cat) • And Once … 23 • Little People … 24 • March … 25 • Mrs. Elsinore … 26 (Halloween) • Someday … 27 • Nobody Gives It to You … 28 • No … 29 (cow) • Pine … 30 • Mill Valley … 31 (old raccoon) • Presents … 32 (Christmas Eve) • Rain-Walking … 33 • Skinny Jim … 34 • The Sun Is Stuck … 35 • This Thing Called Space … 36 • Wharf … 37 • This Story … 38 • What If … 39 • The One I Always Get … 40 • The Box … 41 • In This Jungle … 42 (elephant) • Why? … 43 • November … 44 • Tehachapi Mountains … 45 • The Wind of Spring … 46 • Tomorrow … 47 • A Crazy Flight … 48 • Illustrations by James J. Spanfeller on Title page and pages 11 (eye, mountain), 12 (birds), 14 (flowers, bird, frog, owl), 19 (jay), 22 (cat), 27 (fish), 29 (cow), 31 (raccoon), 35 (sun), 37 (lobster), 39 (hare), 42 (elephant), 44 (tree), 46 (wind), 48 (rocket, moon, space)