Table of Contents
The Wishbone: A Romance 3
Temple Gaudete 4
Owl Hour 5
Baroque Hour 6
Crooked Light 7
Worry Yoga 8
Remorse 10
Celibacy 1 12
Friday Night Hour 13
Temple Solstice 14
Ice Idyll 15
Temple Moon 17
Abridged Hour 18
The Saintly Vita 19
Temple Dictionary 20
Furta Sacra 21
Mynddaeg Hour 22
Temple You 24
Celibacy 2 25
Venus Hour 26
Temple Age 27
Snowdrops 28
Hare 29
Plum Hour 31
"A Labour of" 32
Scarlet Tanager 33
Temple Surrender 34
Wandering Womb 35
Hour Bleu-aille 36
Orexic Hour 37
Mystic Toys 38
Trust Hour 40
Temple Serein 41
From the Orison, River Stones 42
Reading John Clare, Heading North 44
The Wordsworths' Cuckoo Clock 46
Dorothy Wordsworth's Doves 48
Temple Sillage 49
To Time 50
Weeping Cherry in Storm 52
Exit Wounds 53
Finis Hour 55
The Whales 56
From Agitation 58
Celibacy 3 59
City Lust 60
Barn Owl 61
Accidental 62
The Wind Wears a Red Leaf 64
Temple Tomb 66
White Deer 67
Morel Patch 69
St. Field 70
My Father's Dream of Thoreau 72
Once in A 74
Ignis Fatuus 75
Reading an Old Book 76
The Holidays 77
Duet 79
Temple on My Knees 81
How I Might Sound if I Left Myself Alone 82
Notes 83
Acknowledgments 85
About the Author 87
