I was introduced to dowsing by a neighbor in the 1970's in Miami, New Mexico. It is the ancient art of finding water underground by using two sticks, either green twigs or pieces of wire. In the book, I introduce him in the poem "Dowser." I watched him use both green elm and unbent coat-hangars. He held them out straight in front of him, and when he was over water, the sticks crossed and bent downward. A person with this skill is called a "water-witch." My friend had "dowsed" most of the wells in our community over his seventy odd years of living there. He taught me to do it as well, and I...