Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note from the Final Judge x
4. I
5. All of It Alive 3
6. Of the Notebook’s Eyes 4
7. Of Water and Echo 5
8. Moon-Girls of the Burning Barn, 1 6
9. Moon-Girls of the Burning Barn, 2 7
10. Of Blossoms and Ghosts 8
11. Low to Ground and Listening 9
12. Here the Woods Come in Too Close 10
13. Of Bubbles and Milk 11
14. Flowers for the Executioner 12
15. A Matryoshka Doll Is a Nest Made of Eggs 13
16. Silence, a Prayer of Wax 14
17. Little Heavenling 15
18. Faint Stars of Dread 16
19. Memory of Sin 17
20. Unknowing the Clouds 18
21. Unwriting the Sentence 19
22. Of the Cloud In-Between 20
23. Song of Languor 21
24. Death’s Secrets like a Box 22
25. II
26. A toy in blood 25
27. I shall good lesson keep 26
28. The steep and thorny way 27
29. Vows of heaven 28
30. Pale as his shirt 29
31. So piteous and profound 30
32. Perfume lost 31
33. Could beauty 32
34. Like sweet bells jangled 33
35. A grass-green turf 34
36. The owl was a baker’s daughter 35
37. III
38. A Dream of Sea Urchins 39
39. When World Is Whale 40
40. Moon-Girls of the Medicine 41
41. To Limn a Limbed Thing 42
42. They Break Open in Sun but Stay Dark 43
43. Portrait of a Storm 44
44. Of Thread and Absence 45
45. Of the Light Before Darkness 46
46. When the Shepherd Sleeps 47
47. Beech, Birch, Buckthorn 48
48. This Shade Won’t Ink Why You Are Shy 49
49. Never Disparage a Moon-Girl, 1 50
50. Promise You Will Never Go Away 51
51. Never Disparage a Moon-Girl, 2 52
52. A Respite from the Ice 53
53. Colder the Arriving than What Arrives 54
54. Colder the Arriving than What Arrives 55
55. No Tomorrows 56
56. In the Red Night Clouds 57
57. If Wings Neither Waxed nor Waned 58
58. IV
59. All my joy 61
60. Notes 62
61. Acknowledgements 64