Table of Contents
Walking Backwards: An Author's Note New Poems 17
New Poems
Descend 21
The World of Hurt 22
Woman Dressing by a Window 23
The Sound 24
Combine 25
The Gifts of Time 27
Gallina Canyon 30
Saying Grace 31
Bristlecone Pine 32
To the Sea of Cortez 33
The Secret Hearing 35
Mending Time 36
Across the Pyrenees 37
Sketches in the Sun 39
First Christmas in the Village 42
Given Rain 44
The Nightmare Version 45
Daytime 47
To Hygeia 48
The New Dope 50
Disturbed Paradelle 51
The Great Changer 52
Horse People 53
Sand Creek 54
Frangipani 56
Galahs in the Wind 57
My Scottish Grandmother's Lobotomy 58
Bildungsroman 59
Hangman 60
Security Light 61
The Student 62
Old Man Walking 63
Passion 64
The Show 65
Michael Donaghy 1954-2004 66
We Stand Together Talking 67
Epigram 68
From Salt: Poems of a Decade (2014)
Kéfi 71
New World 72
A Thorn in the Paw 73
The Teller 74
The Fawn 75
Fathers and Sons 78
Home Care 79
Mrs. Vitt 80
Driving With Marli 81
The Nape 82
The Future 83
Out 85
In the Barber Shop 86
Sarong Song 87
The Tarmac 88
Another Thing 89
Let It Go 90
4 July 11 92
When I Didn't Get the News 93
14 July 11 96
Salmon Leap 97
The Dying Man 98
The Insert 99
Die When You Die 101
One Another 102
Leavings 103
Lopsided Prayer 104
A Deafness 105
The Soul Fox 106
Mrs. Mason and the Poets 107
Marco Polo in the Old Hotel 110
A Sort of Oracle 111
The Bay of Writing 113
Foghorns 114
Tree Light House 115
The Blue of the Bay 118
Sea Salt 119
From Arrivals (2004)
The City 123
Gulls in the Wake 124
Kalamitsi 125
Pelicans and Greeks 126
Mumbai 128
Agnostos Topos 129
The Collector's Tale 131
In the Borrowed House 140
Adam Speaks 141
Ballade at 3 A.M. 142
The Lost House 143
Mr. Louden and the Antelope 144
A Meaning Made of Trees 146
Winter 1963 147
Swimmers on the Shore 149
From The Country I Remember (1996)
The Country I Remember: A Narrative 153
In the Northern Woods 207
Song of the Powers 208
A Motion We Cannot See 209
From Land Without Grief (1996)
The Sockeye 213
On Being Dismissed as a Pastoral Poet 214
From The Buried Houses (1991)
Gusev 217
The Nightingales of Andritsena 219
At the Graves of Castor and Pollux 225
Spooning 227
Disclosure 234
Blackened Peaches 236