Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Night after Night She Dreams 3
4. Survival 5
5. Lost 7
6. –40°C 9
7. Libretto 12
8. Wavelengths of Your Song 14
9. Dining on Light 16
10. Routes for Finding Colours 18
11. Aurora 20
12. Copper Thunderbird 23
13. Birds 25
14. Malta 26
15. Gnawing 27
16. Tracks 28
17. Knot 30
18. The Doorbell 32
19. Sixteen 35
20. A Woman at Forty-Nine Seeks the Shore 37
21. Knowing 38
22. Beachcombing 39
23. As If 40
24. Mouths 42
25. Panorama 44
26. North American Ballads 45
27. Men 48
28. Geology 51
29. Gardening 52
30. Blindness 54
31. Migrations 57
32. We’re Cycling 58
33. New Year’s Eve 60
34. Postcards 62
35. The Dangers Inherent in Travel 64
36. Isotopes 65
37. South Pacific 67
38. Kiwi Spotting 68
39. Journey 70
40. Music 71
41. The Abandoned Warehouse 72
42. The Most Important Things 76
43. Tango 78
44. The Shirt 79
45. Urban 81
46. Evening 83
47. While Reading Eva Hoffman’s Illuminations 84
48. Crematorium 86
49. The Pear Tree 88
50. The Grandparents’ House 90
51. Mary 92
52. Too Much Goodness 93
53. Mandel 95
54. Seeds 97
55. Lorna Talks to Jacob at the River’s Edge 99
56. Saxifraga 101
57. The Meaning of 102
58. Thebes 103
59. Weightless 104
60. Anniversary 105
61. Origami 106
62. What Gets Blown In 107
63. Kandinsky 108
64. The Sandbox 109
65. Kafka 110
66. Unknown Tongues 111
67. Symphony in E Major 113
68. Undertones 115
69. Metronome 118
70. Felt 120
71. Bathing of the Black Horse 123
72. Leaf 124
73. What Does the Wind Taste Like When It Comes too Early or too Late? 125
74. Apples 126
75. Upside-Down Dante 129
76. Swash Marks 132
77. Silver Anniversary 134
78. Sustain 135
79. Thanksgiving 138
80. Solar Plexus 140
81. Fever 142
82. Wild 144
83. Globe 146
84. Sometimes 148
85. Einstein 151
86. Time 153
87. Of Jumping Frogs 155
88. Mareile 157
89. Stuff 159
90. Vancouver 161
91. Dollhoused 162
92. The City Forest 163
93. Telepathy 165
94. Remembering the Curve of the Earth 167
95. Safety 169
96. Frankfurt, October 171
97. Acknowledgments 173
98. Notes 175