xx, 455 pages ; 25 cm

text

unmediated

volume

From Felicity -- I wake close to morning -- This morning -- The world I live in -- Whistling swans -- storage -- For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (1945-2014) -- I know someone -- That little beast -- The pond -- I have just said -- The gift -- From blue horses -- After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond -- I...

From blue iris -- Just lying on the grass at Blackwater -- Sea leaves -- Morning at Blackwater -- How would you live then? -- How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a god-tale -- From why I wake early -- Why I wake early -- Spring at Blackwater: I go through the lessons already learned -- Mind...

From three rivers poetry journal and "three poems for James Wright -- From twelve moons -- Sleeping in the forest -- Snakes in winter -- Music lessons -- Entering the kingdom -- The night traveler -- Beaver moon -- the suicide of a friend -- Last days -- The black snake -- The Truro bear -- Mussels...