Table of Contents
Reconnaissance 3
The Darker Powers 7
For Night to Fall 9
Moralia 10
The Greatest Colors for the Emptiest Parts of the World 11
Steeple 12
Since You Ask 13
Capella 14
Chromatic Black 17
Permission to Speak 18
Discipline 19
For Long to Hold 20
Stamina 23
The Length of the Field 24
The Buried Life 25
After Learning that the Spell is Irreversible 26
From a Land Galled Near-Is-Far 28
Correction 29
Spirit Lake 30
In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning 31
Lowish Hum, Cool Fuss 32
Last Night 33
Foliage 34
The Strong by Their Stillness 37
Thunder 38
Faintly, With Falling Stars 39
Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back 40
Enough, Tom Fool, Now Sleep 41
Meanwhile, and Anyway 42
Harness 44
Shield 45
At Bay 46
Spring 47
By Force 48
Acknowledgments 51