Table of Contents
Crossing the Threshold 1
Naming 9
Walking with the Word 'Tree' 12
Spring 16
Daffodils (Speculation on Future Blackness) 17
Finding Space (I) 18
Climb with More Singing 19
Rhododendrons 20
Finding Space (II) 21
On the First Day of Autumn 23
Going Still 25
Listen 27
Black Walking 29
Among the Great Oaks in Autumn 30
But What Are these Woods Anyway? 31
Leisure (I) 33
All of a Sudden 34
Finding Space (III) 36
Right Now I'm Standing 38
Autumn 40
Leisure (II) 41
Those Who Can Afford Time 42
Essay on Dog Walking (I) 44
Essay on Dog Walking (II) 46
Masochism 50
On Property 52
Behaviour (A Black Man Enters the Woods) 55
An Evening Walk When Spring Is Already Old 57
Black Holes 58
Rhododendrons on the River 59
Within Full of Canopies 60
Climbing Trees 61
Coming from the Ground 63
Vein of Stone amid the Branches 64
Fallen Beech 66
Treeness 68
The Squirrel Hour 70
A Tree and Two Humans 71
Seagulls 72
Roots 73
For Those Who Steal Away 75
Essay on Dog Walking (III) 80
Essay on Dog Walking (IV) 81
Logwood 83
Plague Walks 91
Do You Feel Them Looking at You? 102
Fear of Men 104
Cho-Cho Walks 105
Twilight in Roundhay 107
Notes & Acknowledgements 109