Yet Van Winkle???s insight into natural, cultural and social processes finds him surprisingly comparable to writers such as Barry Lopez and A. R. Ammons when he describes, at the end of ???Retrieving the Dead???, how one should ???lift the soldiers up, try not to breathe till they???re tossed/into our trenches of tea bags, messed diapers, spare parts.??? Indeed, Van Winkle???s poems are not static