Table of Contents
Courtship 3
Swimming 4
Brothers in Arms 6
Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself 8
Musculature 9
Givingly 10
The Distance and the Spoils 11
Not the Waves as They Make Their Way Forward 12
Gold Leaf 13
Several Birds in Hand but the Rest Go Free 14
Stray 15
Revolver 16
The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before 17
From a Bonfire 18
And Love You Too 20
What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us 22
Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers 23
If You Go Away 25
What the Lost Are For 27
Rockabye 28
His Master's Voice 29
That It Might Save, or Drown Them 30
Gently, Though, Gentle 32
The Wedding 33
More Tenderly Over Some of Us Than Others 35
The Way One Animal Trusts Another 36
A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase 38
Before the Leaves Turn Back 40
For It Felt Like Power 41
Craft and Vision 42
Crossing 43
Monomoy 44
If You Will, I Will 46
Wild Is the Wind 48
The Sea, the Forest 50
Notes and Acknowledgments 53