Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Music
4. Their Song 3
5. The Drum 5
6. Minstrels 7
7. Orphic Voice 9
8. Wings of Song
9. Shh 13
10. Not Philomel 15
11. Rounds 17
12. Kingfishers Catch Fire 19
13. Black and White 21
14. And a Partridge 23
15. How Woodpecker Rekindled the Sun 25
16. Peregrine 27
17. Song and Dance 30
18. Herald 32
19. Bess Beetle Woodnotes 34
20. Silk Roads 36
21. Earthbound Song
22. Sixteen Hands 41
23. Monkey See 43
24. Piggybacking 45
25. Wolfsbane 47
26. Upon Thy Belly 49
27. The Eyes Have It 51
28. Lionhearted 53
29. To the Dogs 55
30. Roots of Song
31. The Sacred Grove 59
32. Oaked 61
33. White Lies 63
34. A Lesson for the Gods 65
35. Not Weeping but Looking 67
36. Neverlandish Tree 69
37. Fastness 71
38. Green Magic 73
39. Undergrowth Overachiever 75
40. The Wind among the Reeds 77
41. Bridge 78
42. Breath Marks
43. The Flow 83
44. Stages of His Age 85
45. So Let Us Melt 86
46. Frankincense 88
47. Transposed 90
48. Stones and Bones 92
49. Love Songs
50. Song on Paper 97
51. Sight Lines 99
52. Touch 101
53. Song on Paper II 103
54. Airborne 105
55. Keepers 107
56. In and Out of Time 109
57. Eurydice Tracking Orpheus 110
58. Treasure in Earthen Vessels 112
59. The Chorus
60. An Oh 117
61. Our Love Is Here 118
62. This Tree 120
63. Connected 122
64. Gifts from the Swift 123
65. Transformers 125
66. Chalk 127
67. New Songs 129
68. Notes 131
69. Acknowledgements 137