The moon before morning

I

Homecoming

By the Front Door

Dew Light

Theft of Morning

Young Man Picking Flowers

White-Eye

From the Gray Legends

Footholds

Beginners

Offering

One Day Moth

The Color They Come To

Looking Up in the Garden

High Fronds

Garden Notes

Coming of Age

A Step at a Time

Another to Echo

Among the Shadows at Home

The Eternal Return

Summer Sky

A Breeze at Noon

The New Song

II

The Green Fence

Only Sparrows

Cancellation

Relics

The Headboard

Ferries

The River One Summer Day

By the Allegheny

Widnoon

The Gloaming

On a Distant Shore

Alba

Can Palat

Still

Forgotten Fountain

Threshing Time

After the Voices

Long Afternoon Light

Old Breadhouse

Running in the Dark

The Bell of One Morning

Elegy for a Walnut Tree

Clear Sound

Garden Music

Time in the Grass

Before Midsummer above the River

Old Plum Tree

Urticophilia

Neither Here nor There

The Palaces

Ancient World

Rule of Thumb

One Summer

Choosing

The Latest Thing

White on White

III

Above the Purple Gorge

Mr Daley

Weinrich's Hand

Antique Sound

Telephone Ringing

The Artisan World

Wild Oats

How It Happens

The Wonder of the Imperfect

Convenience

Duo as the Light Is Going

Natural History of Forgetting

Unknown Soldier

Lear's Wife

IV

Identity

The Heron Time

Clop Clop

Voice of Summer

A Black Kite

Fox Fire

Turning

The Chain to Her Leg

No Flag

A Message to Po Chu-I

Variation on a Theme

The Prow of the Ark

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