Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as The Zen of Mucking Out, then exhorts us to Please Pay Attention, decrying Dick Cheney's canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers. With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage-ending with the unspoken question of Which of us will go down first....