Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter I
2. Contents i
3. One
4. Is This Not a Strange Life to Which I Call You 1
5. A Flaming Sword 3
6. The Storm on the Lake 4
7. Holy Water in a Dry-House 5
8. The Dynamited Mass 6
9. Cain the Earthmover 7
10. To Rain 8
11. My Scallop-Shell of Quiet 9
12. The Burden of the Valley of Vision 10
13. Burn Pit 11
14. The House of the Forest 12
15. A Procession in the Cave 13
16. The Spell of the Covenant 14
17. Holy Convocations 15
18. Scandalized People, Meaning All of Us 16
19. The Riches of Darkness 17
20. To Serve Those Who Do Not Serve 18
21. Bell-Sound 19
22. Two
23. The Thin Harvest 23
24. Sworn to Secrecy the Morning He Performed the Sacrament 24
25. Apron of Leaves 25
26. The Supernumerary Persons Being Enrichers of His Inheritance 26
27. Holy Convocations 27
28. The Exasperated Spirit 28
29. Spun Wisdom 29
30. The Blood Forsakes My Face 30
31. The Stench of Cursed Ground 31
32. Holy Convocations 32
33. Our Days All Pass Awaiting Its Return 33
34. He Houghed Their Horses, and Burnt Their Chariots with Fire 34
35. They Held to Sanity So Hard They Were Insane 35
36. The Burden of the Valley of Vision 36
37. The Morning Light 37
38. Dawn's Careful Seal 38
39. Air Craft 39
40. Three
41. Bodies into Hills, Hills into Homes 43
42. Thinking Is Weeping Entering Eternity 44
43. On Ester Mountain 45
44. An Orgy of Absence 46
45. To Take Corporeal Shape 47
46. The Morning Light 48
47. Dining at the Core of an Old Silence 49
48. The Soul's Chiasmus 50
49. A Crown of Thistles 51
50. A Detail of Devotion 52
51. A Cipher for the Symbol of Zero 53
52. Choke the Word 54
53. Under What Shadow 55
54. The Grooves along Which the Cranes Glide 56
55. Ornamental Armor 57
56. Armor & Ornament 58
57. The Armor of Light 59
58. Acknowledgments 60
59. Notes 61