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Tables of Contents for Making Certain It Goes On
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A Run of Jacks [1961]
Trout
3
1
Near Kalalock
3
1
Bass
4
1
West Marginal Way
5
1
Lone Cheer from the Stands for a Bitter Crane
6
1
Underwater Autumn
7
1
La Push
7
1
The Gull Hardly Explained
8
1
Triangle for Green Men
9
3
Beachthieves
12
1
North
12
1
Or Another Place
13
1
Resulting from Magnetic Interference
14
1
Alki Beach
15
1
Meridian
15
1
Keen to Leaky Flowers
16
1
Antisocial Easter
17
1
Back of Gino's Place
18
1
A Troubadour Removed
18
3
Ocean on Monday
21
1
Snoqualmie
21
1
A District in the City
22
1
Schoolgirl at Seola
23
1
A Map of the Peninsula
24
1
Gooseprairie
25
1
Argo
26
1
Ballad of the Upper Bumping
27
2
Centuries Near Spinnazola
29
1
Cape Alava
30
2
Skykomish River Running
32
1
Mission in Carmel
33
1
Kapowsin
34
2
Graves at Mukilteo
36
1
A Chapel Further West than Most
37
1
Politely like Snakes in the Oats
37
2
Name the Mystery Fin and Win a Doll
39
1
1614 Boren
39
2
Bassett's Lions
41
1
Memoirs
41
2
Lecture
43
1
Neighbor
44
1
Duwamish
44
2
Holy Family
46
1
Northwest Retrospective: Mark Tobey
47
1
Digging Is An Art
48
1
Orcas in the Eyes
49
1
The Way a Ghost Behaves
50
1
No Bells to Believe
51
1
Two Graves in a Day
52
1
At the Stilli's Mouth
53
1
The Way a Ghost Dissolves
54
5
Death of the Kapowsin Tavern [1965]
DUWAMISH, SKAGIT, HOH
Introduction to the Hoh
59
1
From the Rain Forest Down
59
1
Between the Bridges
60
1
Duwamish No. 2
61
1
Bad Vision at the Skagit
62
1
Plunking the Skagit
63
1
Hideout
64
1
Duwamish Head
65
4
Other Waters
Tahola
69
1
Cape Nothing
70
1
Lone Lake, Whidbey
71
1
Sweet Piece from Fontal
71
1
Dancer at Kozani's
72
1
Index
73
1
The Anacortes-Sydney Run
74
1
Mendocino, Like You Said
75
1
The Colors of a Bird
76
1
Lake Byron, Maybe Gordon Lord
77
1
Road Ends at Tahola
78
7
MISSION TO LINZ
LIMITED ACCESS
Eileen
85
1
What the Brand New Freeway Won't Go By
86
1
December 24 and George McBride Is Dead
87
1
Antiques in Ellettsville
88
1
The Other Grave
89
1
Houses Lie, Believe the Lying Sea
89
1
First South and Cambridge
90
1
In Stafford Country
91
1
For a Northern Woman
92
1
Port Townsend
93
1
Fort Casey, without Guns
93
2
One by Twachtman at the Frye
95
1
Bouquets from Corley
95
1
The Squatter on Company Land
96
1
The Church on Comiaken Hill
97
1
The Blond Road
98
1
Pike Place Market
99
2
Graves at Coupeville
101
1
Death of the Kapowsin Tavern
102
3
Good Luck in Cracked Italian [1969]
WHERE ALL DOORS OPEN IN
Docking at Palermo
105
1
Napoli Again
106
1
The Bridge of Sighs
106
1
Galileo's Chair
107
1
Morning in Padova
108
1
S. Miniato: One by Aretino
109
1
Tiberio's Cliff
110
1
Brueghel in the Doria
111
1
Castel Sant' Angelo
112
1
Kennedy Ucciso
113
2
SIDE TRIPS BACK
G.I. Graves in Tuscany
115
1
A View from Cortona
116
1
Eighteen Days in a Tuscan Wood
117
1
Viva La Resistenza
118
1
April in Cerignola
118
2
Tretitoli, Where the Bomb Group Was
120
1
Where We Crashed
121
3
Spinazzola: Quella Cantina La
124
2
Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor
126
1
The Yards of Sarajevo
127
1
Paestum
128
1
Galleria Umberto I
129
2
MARATEA
Maratea Porto
131
1
The Picnic in the Saracen Ruin
132
1
Maratea Antica
133
1
One Son North to Naples
134
1
Maratea Porto: The Bitter Man
134
1
Cantina Iannini
135
1
Pizzeria S. Biagio
136
1
Maratea Porto: The Dear Postmistress There
137
1
Maratea Porto: Saying Good-bye to the Vitolos
138
1
Last Words from Maratea
139
7
REMOTE OR STONE
South Italy, Remote and Stone
146
1
Storm in Acquafredda
147
1
The Park at Villammare
148
1
Why Sapri Will Never Be Italian
149
1
Beggar in Sapri
150
1
Sailing Dalmatia
151
1
Remote Farm on the Dubrovnik-Sarajevo Run
152
1
Spinning the Sava
153
1
Christmas with Shepherds in Brefaro
154
1
Italian Town Abandoned
155
1
Montesano Unvisited
156
1
With Anna at Camaldoli
157
1
Sailing from Naples
158
7
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir [1973]
MONTANA WITH FRIENDS
A Map of Montana in Italy
165
1
The Milltown Union Bar
166
1
Where Jennie Used to Swim
167
1
Where Mission Creek Runs Hard for Joy
168
1
Graves at Elkhorn
169
1
St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail
170
1
Bad Eyes Spinning the Rock
171
1
Dog Lake with Paula
172
1
To Die in Milltown
173
1
Pishkun
174
1
Reclamation at Coloma
175
1
Helena, Where Homes Go Mad
176
1
Silver Star
177
1
With Kathy in Wisdom
178
1
Indian Graves at Jocko
179
2
TOURING
Drums in Scotland
181
1
Chysauster
182
1
Walking Praed Street
182
2
Somersby
184
1
The Prado: Bosch: S. Antonio
184
1
The Prado: Number 2671, Anonimo Espanol
185
1
At Cronkhite
186
1
Upper Voight's, to All the Cutthroat There
187
1
Taneum Creek
188
1
The Gold Man on the Beckler
188
2
TOURING WITH FRIENDS
Cataldo Mission
190
1
Montgomery Hollow
191
1
The End of Krim's Pad
192
1
Old Map of Uhlerstown
193
1
A Night with Cindy at Heitman's
193
1
Point No Point
194
1
Cornwall, Touring
195
1
Shark Island
196
1
The Tinker Camp
197
1
Cleggan
198
1
Crinan Canal
199
2
MONTANA
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
201
2
Ovando
203
1
Driving Montana
204
1
Montana Ranch Abandoned
205
1
2433 Agnes, First Home, Last House in Missoula
205
2
Ghosts at Garnet
207
1
A Night at the Napi in Browning
208
1
Camas Prairie School
209
1
Missoula Softball Tournament
210
1
Phoning from Sweathouse Creek
211
1
The Only Bar in Dixon
212
1
Dixon
213
1
Hot Springs
214
1
Bear Paw
215
1
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
216
5
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American [1975]
A SNAPSHOT OF THE AUXILIARY
A Snapshot of the Auxiliary
221
1
Saying Goodbye to Mrs. Noraine
222
1
A Good Day for Seeing Your Limitations
223
1
The House on 15th S.W.
224
1
A Snapshot of 15th S.W.
225
1
December 24, Alone
226
1
Remember Graham
227
1
A History of the Sketch
228
1
Why I Think of Dumar Sadly
228
1
Time to Remember Sangster
229
1
Again, Kapowsin
230
1
Flying, Reflying, Farming
231
2
Last Day There
233
1
Places and Ways to Live
234
1
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American
235
2
STRANGERS
Goodbye, Iowa
237
1
Farmer, Dying
238
1
Living Alone
239
1
Turtle Lake
239
1
Late Summer, Drummond
240
1
Reading at the Old Federal Courts Building, St. Paul
241
1
Ode to the Trio Fruit Company of Missoula
242
1
Old Scene
243
1
Landscapes
244
1
Reconsidering the Madman
245
1
The Cripples
246
1
Invasion North
247
1
Cattails
248
1
The Hilltop
249
1
Changes in Policy at Taholah
250
1
Indian Girl
251
1
The Swimmer at Lake Edward
252
1
Ghost in a Field of Mint
252
1
Iowa Deja Vu
253
1
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
254
2
LECTURES, SOLILOQUIES, PONTIFICATIONS
Plans for Altering the River
256
1
Three Stops to Ten Sleep
257
1
On Hearing a New Escalation
258
1
Announcement
259
1
For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton
260
1
Approaching the Castle
261
1
Listen, Ripley
262
1
Graves in Queens
263
2
Starting Back
265
1
Keokuk
266
2
Topographical Map
268
1
My Buddy
269
2
The Art of Poetry
271
4
31 LETTERS TO 13 DREAMS [1977]
Letter to Kizer from Seattle
275
1
Letter to Bell from Missoula
276
1
Letter to Sister Madeline from Iowa City
277
1
In Your Fugitive Dream
278
1
Letter to Simic from Boulder
279
1
Letter to Matthews from Barton Street Flats
280
1
In Your War Dream
281
1
Letter to Ammons from Maratea
282
1
Letter to Hanson from Miami
283
1
In Your Bad Dream
284
1
Letter to Annick from Boulder
285
1
Letter to Mantsch from Havre
286
1
In Your Young Dream
287
1
Letter to Reed from Lolo
287
1
Letter to Peterson from the Pike Place Market
288
1
Letter to Stafford from Polson
289
1
In Your Small Dream
290
1
Letter to Hill from St. Ignatius
291
1
Letter to Wagoner from Port Townsend
292
1
Letter to Bly from La Push
293
1
In Your Blue Dream
294
1
Letter to Libbey from St. Regis
295
1
Letter to Logan from Milltown
296
1
In Your Hot Dream
297
1
Letter to Gale from Ovando
298
1
Letter to Welch from Browning
299
1
In Your Racing Dream
300
1
Letter to Snyder from Montana
301
1
Letter to Scanlon from Whitehall
302
1
Letter to Wright from Gooseprairie
303
1
In Your Wild Dream
304
1
Letter to Haislip from Hot Springs
304
1
Letter to Mayo from Missoula
305
2
Letter to Levertov from Butte
307
1
In Your Dream on the Eve of Success
308
1
Letter to Kathy from Wisdom
309
1
Letter to Goldbarth from Big Fork
310
1
In Your Big Dream
311
1
Letter to Birch from Deer Lodge
312
1
Letter to Oberg from Pony
313
1
Letter to Blessing from Missoula
314
2
In Your Dream after Falling in Love
316
1
Letter to Gildner from Wallace
317
1
Note to R. H. from Strongsville
318
1
In Your Good Dream
319
4
White Center [1980]
Museum of Cruel Days
323
1
After a Train Trip, One Town Remains
324
1
Doing the House
325
2
Scene
327
1
Second Chances
328
1
With Ripley at the Grave of Albert Parenteau
329
1
With Melissa on the Shore
330
1
The Ballpark at Moiese
331
3
Wheel of Fortune
334
1
Open Country
335
1
The Other Beaverbank
336
1
At the Cabin
336
2
Birthday
338
1
Repairing the House, the Church, Restoring the Music
339
1
Leaving the Dream
340
1
Beaverbank
341
2
The Towns We Know and Leave Behind, the Rivers We Carry with Us
343
2
Fort Benton
345
1
High Grass Prairie
346
1
Brief History
346
1
Medicine Bow
347
1
Overlooking Yale
348
2
Imagining Delaware
350
1
A Good View from Flagstaff
351
1
Port Townsend, 1974
352
1
Getty
352
2
The Small Oil Left in the House We Rented in Boulder
354
1
At Our Best
354
1
Graves
355
1
Dwelling
356
1
Changes at Meridian
357
1
Guns at Fort Flagler
357
1
Fairfield
358
1
To Women
359
1
How to Use a Storm
360
1
How Meadows Trick You
361
1
Snow Poem
362
1
The Carnival Inside
363
1
From Altitude, the Diamonds
364
1
Bay of Sad Loss
365
1
Bay of Resolve
366
1
Bay of Recovery
367
1
The Sandbanks
368
1
The River Now
368
1
Sound Track Conditional
369
1
Belt
370
1
Bone Hunting
371
1
Houses
372
1
White Center
373
6
The Right Madness on Skye [1980]
The Semi-Lunatics of Kilmuir
379
1
A Snapshot of Uig in Montana
379
1
A Map of Skye
380
1
Clachard
381
1
Greystone Cottage
382
1
The Clouds of Uig
383
1
Graves in Uig
384
1
Hawk in Uig
385
1
Uig Registrar
386
1
Piping to You on Skye from Lewis
387
1
The Clearances
387
2
Glen Uig
389
1
Sneosdal
390
1
Kilmuir Cemetery: The Knight in Blue-Green Relief
391
2
Kilmuir Cemetery: Stone with Two Skulls and No Name
393
1
Duntulm Castle
394
2
Mill at Romesdal
396
1
Druid Stones at Kensaleyre
397
1
The Braes
398
1
St. John's Chapel
399
1
Trumpan
400
1
Langaig
401
2
Ayr
403
1
Ferniehirst Castle
404
1
Culloden
405
1
The Standing Stones of Callanish
406
1
Ness
407
1
Carloway Broch
408
2
The Cairn in Loch An Duin
410
1
St. Clement's: Harris
411
2
Letter to Garber from Skye
413
2
Villager
415
1
The Right Madness on Skye
416
7
New Poems
Last Words to James Wright
423
2
STONE POEMS
Green Stone
425
1
Gold Stone
426
1
Gray Stone
427
1
Red Stone
427
1
Brown Stone
428
1
Blue Stone
429
1
MAKING CERTAIN IT GOES ON
Where the House Was
430
1
Elegy
431
1
O-Mok-See at Nine Mile
432
1
Tony
433
1
Distances
434
1
Here, but Unable to Answer
435
1
Salt Water Story
436
2
Ashville
438
2
Confederate Graves in Little Rock
440
1
Bannerman's Island
441
1
George Stubbs at Yale
442
1
Pishkun Reservoir
443
1
Poem for Zen Hofman
444
1
Death in the Aquarium
445
1
Making Certain It Goes On
446
3
Index
449