CONTENTS

BOOK OF DAYS

Zola, Bravest of Leonardo’s Apprentices, Leaps from the Tower of San Francesco Wearing His Master’s Wings

Persephone

The Later Auden

William Kemmler Remembering his Wife

Reading Gwendolyn MacEwen’s T. E. Lawrence poems

Charles Dodgson Looking at Alice Liddell

The Later Life of Judas Iscariot

Simone Weil

Walking

Neanderthal Man, Theory and Practice

Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson Meet in the Afterlife

A Journey by Train

CURIO: TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHS

Daguerre Photographs Paris, 1838

A Wedding Teacup, Toronto, 1907

Halifax Flea Market: Two Photographs

Married Couple with Baby, 1910

The White Horse Divers, Lake Ontario, 1908

White Horse Diver #2

Girl in a Checked Dress on a Slum Doorstep, 1912

Painter in Her Studio, 1907

Ballerina on a Horse, Midway, 1915

Blind Twins Facing Away From Each Other, 1850

Silver Cross Mother, 1919

Considering Photographs

SIGNS AND WONDERS

Light of Another Sun

Love Poem from the Dictionary

Grimm in the Black Forest

Three Cautions for Water

Girls Watch in the Mirror at Midnight for a Vision of a Future Husband

Dark Age

The Sin Eater

The Witch and the Birds

The Girl on the Road

Family History

Learning to Read

NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE