Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Memory Child 3
4. Speed 6
5. Banff Guest 8
6. On Being Close to Dying at Age Eighty-Seven 11
7. Break Through 13
8. Leaving Words 15
9. Jagged 17
10. Vermont Bridge 20
11. October Summer 21
12. Meridian 22
13. The Language of Trees 23
14. Silver Point 25
15. Lift up the Chest of MYRRH 26
16. Shadowland 27
17. Edgewater 29
18. It is you 31
19. Fire 32
20. A Description of an Approaching Hurricane, Toronto 33
21. Garbage 35
22. Lakeside 36
23. If you Would Please 37
24. Fancy 38
25. Vancouver Mountain 39
26. Parisian Home 40
27. The Magical Name 42
28. Watershed 43
29. Champs Elysées 45
30. Ithaca 47
31. Hush 48
32. Music and the Moon 50
33. Fall 51
34. The Black-Capped Chickadee 52
35. At Sea 54
36. Our Time 55
37. Upstairs 57
38. Give 59
39. Unblown 60
40. Conception 62
41. After a Walk with Trees 63
42. Spring Today 65
43. Verge 66
44. Sparrow 68
45. Cringe 69
46. November 71
47. Winter's Waiting I 72
48. Winter's Waiting II 73
49. On the Rose Garden at UBC 75
50. Sylvan Signals and the Moon 77
51. Small Hands 78
52. Acknowledgments 79