Contents
I The way beached boats are both / On land and partly in water…
What light decays
The Pass throughMorning
Stars, Sunday Dawn
November, April, June
Afternoon furniture, winter
Visiting Parents, 6 January
The excellent humour of trees
The storm, the day you died
II Seven men who can give a discreet answer
The age we discover poetry
Houseguest
WithWingspread Ease
Fall-back Sunday
Louisa reading, me driving by
Reading, while the baby sleeps
Summer Storm
III God is not angry with you; you are angry with God
What matters
Any given angel
Poetry and Belief
Raspberries
TheWaitingWell
Birdlore
Winter Scene with Postulants
The Provost Responds
Within and around
Even now
The Garden, aquatic
What day brings forth, 1 January
In the Parson’s Herbary
IV Think that we / Are but turned aside to sleep…
The IntelligentMan’s Guide to the Shore
If Only
What splendid times
Asleep
Trains
Love, after a time
Bodies of water
The rustling of stars
There waits a room
The Second Truck
Restless HotelMorning
The Library, Nova Scotia
V The Third Stranger / Ways of saying goodbye
Every story has its horizon
After theWar
Wash rules, winter, c 1950
Electricity
Quiet
Travel
August Apples, Also Called Yellow Transparents
140 acres lying south from the watermark
The men are here
In the slope
Through John Thompson Country
Notes
Acknowledgements
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