Part one: Alux the sea -- Fur seals -- Seal pups -- Seal rookery -- Kelp -- Lukanin beach -- Part two: How to make good baked salmon -- Mickey mouse comes to Juneau -- Part three: Museum -- Far North mask collection -- Talking to guardians -- Feasting in the cedar house -- Chilkoot river/Lukaax.adi village -- Genocide -- Village tour, Nome airport -- Listening for native voices -- Harry Marvin in memoriam -- Jessie -- Juneau school inservice -- Cross talk -- Old photograph of Aanyaalahaash -- Two poems for Jennie Thlunaut -- My missing uncle -- Don't grieve -- Eva, Ax Keek' -- Willie -- Willie always loved.

Part four: Denali park, September, 1982 I and II -- Before snow -- Ice floes -- Chugach morning -- Skiing on Russian Christmas -- After ice fog -- Winter developing -- Second winter -- Pussy willow -- Canada geese -- Clamming -- Wealth -- Voices -- Trouble -- Raven, saving it for later -- Poppy -- Part five: Like phosphorescence -- Leaving Kajaani on Finnair -- Four poems for my husband -- Snorkeling at Hanauma Bay -- Westbound DC -- Flying home -- Home from a trip.

Part six: Granddaughters dancing -- K'eikaxwein -- Being misplaced -- Breech birth -- Pregnant image -- La.at -- Shnalnaa at bat -- Smaller than a raven -- Heritage -- Celebration 1986 -- Dancing for native leaders -- Part seven: Han Shan, cold mountain poems -- Setcho, the fisherman -- Basho, two haiku -- Cummings, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r -- Tlingit concrete poem.