Eclogs are most often set in the countryside. That is where these poems begin. Pastures and dilapidated barns, small homes and brooks that carve the forest into jigsaw puzzles before descending to the sea, abandoned factories. This is a landscape created by European settler populations as they explored the rivers that traverse the land. One model poet for my thinking has been Frederick Hölderlin. In my youth I lived in the Neckar valley as he did. That as well as the high hills and low mountains of a once agricultural New Hampshire and Maine have shaped my feeling for landscapes. The language owes much to objectivist poetics. The poems range from conversations among settlers to the recognition of others who reside in a baroque past that originates with reflections on the cosmos made by nomadic populations and that continue among today's refugees who live in Gaza or the Sudan under the shadow of a continuing holocaust.