New York: Viking, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Iowa-based author's first book - in it he "sets out here to bridge the everyday and the eternal, using his experience of a familiar prairie river as a starting point for observations about the universe. 'Rivering,' as he calls it, becomes a metaphor for the cosmos and eternal change." (Publishers Weekly) Barry Lopez called this a "wondrous, invigorating, and humane work." vii, 115 pp. ISBN: 0-670824410.