Camber by McKay, Don -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Disclaimer Page I Birding, or desire and early poems

Field Marks Close-up on a Sharp-shinned Hawk The Great Blue Heron Dusk I scream you scream Nocturnal Animals Fridge Nocturne Bird Thou Never Wert The Boy’s Own Guide to Dream Birds Simply because light Sparrows Alias Rock Dove, Alias Holy Ghost Gynaecology Our Last Black Cat On Seeing the First Turkey Vultures of Spring Longing A Toast to the Baltimore Oriole Adagio for a Fallen Sparrow “The bellies of fallen breathing sparrows” A Barbed-Wire Fence Meditates upon the Goldfinch Field Marks (2) Kestrels White Pine To sing and feed Mourning Doves August Listen at the edge Pausing by moonlight beside a field of dandelions gone to seed The Tire Swing Blood But Nature Has Her Darker Side

II Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night

The Wind Chill Factor Snow Thickening on the Trans-Canada Highway Midwintering Drinking Lake Superior Via, Eastbound Summer at Leith Softball Midnight Dip Some functions of a leaf Lost Sisters The Night Shift Dixieland Contraption Blues Deep Vein Thrombosis Trouble in Paradise Edge of Night Talk’s End

III Night Field

Song for Wild Phlox Meditation on Blue The Wolf Choosing the Bow Recipe for Divertimento in D, K: 136 Bone Poems Nocturne Macdonald-Cartier Freeway Waking at the Mouth of the Willow River Meditation in an Uncut Cornfield, November The Dumpe Night Field Moth Fear Meditation on Shovels Domestic Animals Song for the Restless Wind Night Skating on the Little Paddle River Poplar Luke & Co. Another Theory of Dusk Meditation on Snow Clouds Approaching the University from the Northwest

IV Apparatus

Early Instruments Twinflower To Speak of Paths Glenn Gould, humming Song for Beef Cattle Camouflage Big Alberta Clouds Alibi Kinds of Blue #76 (Evening Snow) Hospital Zone Rain, rain, rain Song for the song of the Varied Thrush Song for the song of the Wood Thrush The Laugh Suddenly, at home Après La Bohème What Kind of Fool Am I? Matériel

I. The Man from Nod II. Fates Worse Than Death III. The Base IV. Stretto

Meditation on Antique Glass Short Fat Flicks

1. He rides into town 2. Their eyes meet 3. We take our seats

Ode to My Car Setting Up the Drums Acoustics of the Conical Tube Setting the Table

1. Knife 2. Fork 3. Spoon

Abandoned Tracks: an eclogue To Danceland

V Another Gravity

Sometimes a Voice (1) Lift Drag Dark of the Moon Song for the song of the coyote Load Icarus Before the Moon Homing Angle of Attack Nocturnal Migrants Snow Moon Kinds of Blue #41 (Far Hills) Song for the song of the White-throated Sparrow Camber Glide Wings of Song Hover Hang Time Turbulence UFO Plummet Sometimes a Voice (2) Finger Pointing at the Moon Winter Solstice Moon: an eclogue On Leaving

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