Gardening Until Dark

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Box for Small Births
4. Listening on the Back Steps 3
5. How Acupuncture Is Like Poetry 5
6. Lost Footnote from an Essay on Rhythm 6
7. Shuffles 8
8. Two for the Winds 10
9. Under the Old Roof 12
10. The Colours at McCormack’s Beach 15
11. Sloth Surprises 16
12. The Afterlife of Trees 19
13. A Toss of Cones 20
14. A Lake Named After My Ancestors 22
15. The Basement that Became a Garden 24
16. Gardening Until Dark 26
17. Graveyard Haiku 32
18. Tree Trilogy 33
19. Hawthornden Improvisations
20. Hawthornden Improvisations 39
21. A World of Counting
22. Work at Twenty-One 61
23. Three Windows 65
24. After the Age of Parties 68
25. Every Lion Until Now 70
26. A Glosa for Joshua 72
27. Sick for the New Millennium 74
28. Diner in a Storm 76
29. Three Tales of Halifax 77
30. Atlas, We Laughed 80
31. Foot-doctor for the Homeless 82
32. The Sonographer 84
33. Talking to the Birds
34. Talking to the Birds 89
35. Acknowledgments 99