Nelson's yard is more than a measurement, more than partial of an acre which still measures a man; his yard is an even bigger free land full of sightings-beauty of following of a river, spotting an old cotton woody and a rock dove; even stepping out on Broadway the author finds sight in what needs to be said, lets loose from the mind, and what wasn't spoken years before, possibly forgotten but by him, it's there on each page. Words for the Deed is yet another brilliant book of Rodney Nelson, here to remind us to see the landscape and all around, to remember.