Table of Contents
Motherbird 8
Motherbird Can't Fly 9
Her Feathers 10
The Egg and the Dream 11
Motherbird and Her Life So Far 12
Invisible 13
Motherbird's Ornament 14
The Coldest Winter 15
When Motherbird Met Father bird 16
Golden Bird 17
Motherbird Sings 18
A Photo of Fatherbird 19
The Afterlife of Fatherbird 21
Chinese Story 31
Three poems inspired by the paintings of Remedios Varo 33
A Portrait of the World 33
Creating the Birds 34
Allegory of Winter 35
The Empty Nest 37
A Soft White Feather Lying on the Grass 38
November Trees 39
Stories 40
The Callers 42
The Vanishing Point 43
Being Alive 44
To the Birds 45
Birds and Naturalists 46
At the Frontier 47
The Bird and the Artist 48
A Long Reign 50
Blood Feathers 51
No Comfort 53
The Tree 54
Fatherbird's Despair 55
The Nest They Made 56
Dark Bird 57
What I hear now is tuneless 58
The Mirror 59
Less, much less 60
Acknowledgements 63
