Contents
Distance Closing In
More
Becoming Lake
Alnöitic Rock
Under Influence
Summer House Revisited
Figments
How Fast a Life
Summer
Map of the Lake
Monastic Life 1
Monastic Life 2
Monastic Life 3
Call and Response
How Own a Lake
Kanesatake
Impermanence
Whether Wind
Monastic Life 4
Monastic Life 5
Whose Lake?
Lake 1
Religious Life
Monastic Life 6
Dad before Lake
Swimming under the Overhead Fixture
Dad in the Lake
Older Aunt
Treading Water
Uncle Bobby
To Oka
How Belong
How Mend the Years
Angelwings
Frère Gabriel Crosses the Lake
Frère Gabriel’s Life 1
Frère Gabriel’s Life 2
Frère Gabriel’s Life 3
Armies of Frogs
Oka Crisis
Northern Gate
L’Île-Cadieux
Walking the Island Road after Dinner
Frère Gabriel’s Life 4
Frère Gabriel’s Life 5
When Heat Falls
Cardinals, Crows
Lake 2
Ghosts Moving in Forested Shade
Summer Ends
Things Change
Last Day
Monastic Life 7
Monastic Lake
What’s Under
Eight Miles to the Centre
Sun Going Down
Acknowledgements
Biographical Note
Copyright