Grateful acknowledgment to the editors of the following magazines and journals inwhich these poems （sometimes in altered form, or with different titles） first appeared:The New Yorker, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Jubilat,Harvard Magazine, the New York Times （Op-Ed page）, the New York Times Magazine,Boston Review, Countermeasures, Seneca Review, London Review of Books, The TimesLiterar）, Supplement, Volt, The American Poetry Review.A few of the poems were printed, in different versions in some cases, in a fine-presslimited edition titled .411 Things, from the University of Iowa's Center for the Book.My thanks to Shari deGraw and Brien Woods."Evolution" （"How old are you？"） was written on commission for the New York TimesMagazine in response to a survey of American public sentiment at the close of the mil-lennium. My thanks to David Shipley."Gulls" also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2000 （ed. Robert Hass）.Some of this work was written for the Environmental Protection Agency, for use in acollaboration with the sculpture of Beverly Pepper.A number of these poems were written on commission for the National MillenniumSurvey Proiect, in coniunction with the College of Santa Fe. My thanks to the wholeorganization, and to Greg Glazner in particular.My gratitude, as well, to Robert Whiting （in Todos Santos）, and Lila Stine （inChilmark）.