Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. One
5. How This Poet Thinks 3
6. Hopper’s Paintings 5
7. Landscape in Blue and Bronze 6
8. From Eleven Years Later 7
9. Breaking Silence—for my Son 8
10. Naming My Daughter 9
11. Going 10
12. Miniature 11
13. Sea Watchers 12
14. From a Rented Cottage by Winnisquam in Rain 13
15. At The Mystic Aquarium 15
16. Gifts 16
17. Evensong 17
18. The Sleepers 18
19. The Decision 20
20. Nightwork 21
21. Sag Harbor Sundown 22
22. Crossing the Sound 23
23. Pemaquid Beach after a Week Alone 24
24. On Hearing of the Sudden Death of a Friend 25
25. At the Enosberg Falls Cemetery 26
26. Lamentation 27
27. Lightning Spreads Out Across the Water 28
28. Watching Light in the Field 30
29. Two
30. In the Winter of my Sixtieth Year 33
31. When i Wake to a Bedroom Filled With Blue Lights 35
32. In the City Without a Name 37
33. Weed in Drought 39
34. Location 41
35. In the Basement of the First Church 42
36. From the Blue Room at the Colony 44
37. Visiting Frost’s Grave 45
38. Boundaries 47
39. Winter Sky Over Cheshire County, New Hampshire 49
40. Starry Night 50
41. Fall Garden and the Weather Coming in 51
42. Invocation 52
43. The Reading: University College, Galway 54
44. Near Galway 56
45. Dublin Beggar 57
46. Pilot Glasses 58
47. Roofmen 60
48. Naming 61
49. Anniversaries 62
50. Still Water 64
51. Letter From Cranberry Island 65
52. Acknowledgments 66
53. About The Author 67
54. The May Swenson Poetry Award 68