CONTENTS

Walking Backwards: An Author’s Note

New Poems

Descend

The World of Hurt

Woman Dressing by a Window

The Sound

Combine

The Gifts of Time

Gallina Canyon

Saying Grace

Bristlecone Pine

To the Sea of Cortez

The Secret Hearing

Mending Time

Across the Pyrenees

Sketches in the Sun

First Christmas in the Village

Given Rain

The Nightmare Version

Daytime

To Hygeia

The New Dope

Disturbed Paradelle

The Great Changer

Horse People

Sand Creek

Frangipani

Galahs in the Wind

My Scottish Grandmother’s Lobotomy

Bildungsroman

Hangman

Security Light

The Student

Old Man Walking

Passion The Show

The Show

Michael Donaghy 1954–2004

We Stand Together Talking

Epigram

From Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade (2014)

Kéfi

New World

A Thorn in the Paw

The Teller

The Fawn

Fathers and Sons

Home Care

Mrs. Vitt

Driving With Marli

The Nape

The Future

Out

In the Barber Shop

Sarong Song

The Tarmac

Another Thing

Let It Go

4 July 11

When I Didn’t Get the News

14 July 11

Salmon Leap

The Dying Man

The Insert

Die When You Die

One Another

Leavings

Lopsided Prayer

A Deafness

The Soul Fox

Mrs. Mason and the Poets

Marco Polo in the Old Hotel

A Sort of Oracle

The Bay of Writing

Foghorns

Tree Light House

The Blue of the Bay

Sea Salt

From Arrivals (2004)

The City

Gulls in the Wake

Kalamitsi

Pelicans and Greeks

Mumbai

Agnostos Topos

The Collector’s Tale

In the Borrowed House

Adam Speaks

Ballade at 3 A.M.

The Lost House

Mr. Louden and the Antelope

A Meaning Made of Trees

Winter 1963

Swimmers on the Shore

From The Country I Remember (1996)

The Country I Remember: A Narrative

In the Northern Woods

Song of the Powers

A Motion We Cannot See

From Land Without Grief (1996)

The Sockeye

On Being Dismissed as a Pastoral Poet

From The Buried Houses (1991)

Gusev

The Nightingales of Andrítsena

At the Graves of Castor and Pollux

Spooning

Disclosure

Blackened Peaches