In a Time of Distance
A Washing Line Outside a Croft House
Taste and Memory
Journeys
Our Journeys
The Train Arriving at Platform Two
Adelstrop Revisited
The Language of Pilots
College of Hypnotherapy, Next Right
Quality Provisions for Ever
Not Rus in Urbe but Suburbia in Rure
A Typology of Angels
Household Gods
Holy River
Mustard Field, Rajasthan
Feel Glorious
Do Not Lean Again
Ne Pas
A Scottish Four Seasons
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Interlude: Seven Sonnets
I. Sixty Talks to Eighteen
II. Eighteen Replies to Sixty
III. Forty Intervenes, Remembers Horace
IV. Adventure and Uncertainty
V. It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
VI. King James VI of Scotland Reflects on the Loss of His Only Friend When Young
VII. Love Unforgotten
Of the Animals
Primate Cousins
The Gentleness of Whales
Elephants
Kangaroos
The Dung Beetle
Tortoise
Cheetah
Polar Bear
Crocodile
Lion
Small, Insignificant Antelope
Giraffe, Zebra
Our World, Their World
Of Love & Longing
Love over Scotland
On Clouds over Mull: A Love Song
Nocturnal Blessing
Love Lost
On Looking at a Child
Of Books & Reading
The Goodness of Books
I. The Book Becomes
II. Moveable Type
III. What the Book Is
IV. On the Bedside Table
Remembering Muriel Spark
Graham Greene
A Maker of Beautiful Books
Library of Congress
Places
Greece
The Oracle at Delphi
Goodbye to the Ionian
Scotland
St. Kilda
Dear One
Scotland’s Claim
Edinburgh
A Fragile Beauty
The Seven Hills of Edinburgh
The Castle Rock
Craiglockhart Hill, a Century Ago
Arthur’s Seat and Geology
Imagined Conversation on Blackford Hill
Corstorphine Hill
On Calton Hill
Braid Hills
Unrelated Poems
Northland
Wolves
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg
From a Mumbai Hotel
Fish, and the Thoughts of Fish
Saving an Oak Tree
Friendship
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