• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Thistles
• Bens
• Witch Hazel in March
• Visitants
• Heathcote
• Routine
• “From a Childhood”
• Girl
• Oban
• Arrow
• Rockfield Primary School
• 1952
• “Crucifixion”
• November
• “Washing the Corpse”
• Family
• Liminal
• Ghost
• The Daughter
• Ash
• Nest
• Nest of Thistles
• “I Love You, Darkness”
• Births
• Passage
• Chincherinchees 1960
• Memory
• Poise
• Departure
• Which Woman
• Ghazal
• Schiehallion
• Conversation
• Ancestor Theory
• Song for My Mother
• Bronze Age
• Cradle
• Song
• Flowers à la Carte
• “The Little Year of the Vine”
• Haggis
• Wanting to Write like Merwin
• Handel
• “Leda”
• Heureux
• The Lover
• Written on a Leaf
• Homecoming
• Unfolding
• 19 July 2003
• “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes”
• One Way to Varanasi
• Varanasi Morning
• The Greatcoat
• What It Comes Down To
• Black Bun
• Bridge Street Cemetery
• Song
• Words
• Glossary
• Notes