Contents

• Homesteading
• In the Beginning
• Comforts of the Sun
• Here Is My Father
• Fieldwork
• Girl on a Tractor
• My Father’s Woods
• The Shop
• Semi-Literate
• The Rosary of the World
• A Poem with My Mother in It
• Apple Season
• Song, In Cut Time
• Lost at Table
• Fields in Late October
• Casino
• Of Virtue
• Mending
• The Silence Says
• Doppler Effect
• Resurrection #6
• All Reason and No Rhyme
• Wanted
• A Kind of Villanelle
• The Exorcism
• Her Legendary Head
• Perpetual Motion
• The Word Behind the Word
• Word Gets Out
• Not for Burning
• The Temptation to Invent
• Sometimes Never
• A Way to Survive
• Condition
• Natural Selection
• The Seed
• In a New Key
• Bell Bottom Dream
• How It Would Be
• Not the Man
• Possibilities
• When She Tells Our Story
• Launching into Space
• Acoustic Alibi
• Key of Dust
• Will Come Again
• Bookmobile
• Slowing Down the Globe
• The Eiffel Tower
• Chagall’s Lovers
• Rodin on Film
• After Magritte
• Arrangement in Grey and Black
• On the Day You Leave Paris
• On Hampstead Heath
• Coram’s Fields
• Reading in the British Library
• The Haircut
• Trains
• Highgate
• Negative Capability
• At Lissadel
• Another Room
• Night and Day
• Late in the Century
• What the Heart Cannot Forget
• Waking Up as I Fall Asleep
• Older, Younger, Both
• Mimetic
• The Only Name We Know
• Photosynthesis
• Gifted
• Coming Back to the Body
• Seeing off the Dead
• Into Thin Air
• The Assumption
• Acknowledgements