Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Considered Passion: The Poetry of Diana Brebner ix
4. Snow Angels 3
5. Immolation 5
6. The Children in That Country 6
7. Awake in the Morning Room, Newly Painted 7
8. You, of All White Women I Have Loved 8
9. Radiant Life Forms 9
10. The Sparrow Drawer 10
11. What is Homeless in Me, and Sightless 15
12. Desire, Mother and Child 16
13. The Radiant Lady Poems 17
14. Open among the Lilies 25
15. The Golden Lotus 26
16. Karuna 30
17. Head of a Girl 36
18. The Perfect Garden 51
19. Eleven Paintings by Mary Pratt 52
20. Flora & Fauna 73
21. The Black Swan 74
22. Poison Dart Frogs 80
23. The Green Canoe 84
24. Facing Buddha 86
25. Prints of Love 87
26. Pictures of an Eclipse 88
27. Polycarbon Butterfly Unfurled 90
28. The Pictures of My Heart 92
29. At the Schwarzschild Radius 97
30. The Blue Light of the Neutron Pool 102
31. The Trout 109
32. My Hope 110
33. Porthole 111
34. Port 113
35. For the Poet Who Told Me to Think Less and Feel More 116
36. Frozen 118
37. Waiting 120
38. Morning on the Guitar 122
39. The Bridge 124
40. Detonation/Notation 125
41. Variation on John Thompson’s Ghazal 128
42. The Narrow Lens 130
43. Venus Velvet 6557 hb 132
44. The Variable Swans 133
45. Listening to Winterreise 135
46. A Stranger 137
47. The Isis Rattle 138
48. Access the Calm Serene 139
49. Concern for My Soul 141
50. Karma’s Girls 142
51. Servant of the Muse 143
52. Gaia Reclining 144
53. Our Kate 145
54. Orange Marmalade Keiller Recipe 146
55. Slicing Oranges in Kim’s Kitchen 147
56. Blood Oranges 148
57. Silence 149
58. Silence ii 151
59. The Nature of Weapons 152
60. That Blue Is All in a Rush 153
61. The Trout in the Holly Well: Ideas on Order & Poetry 157
62. Acknowledgments 165