Contents
Just This
I. Manual for Living
Approach Life as If It Were a Banquet
Always Act Well the Part That Is Given You
Briefly Accept Events as They Occur
Care for What You Happen to Have—There Is Nothing to Lose
Desire Demands Its Own Attachment
Everything Has Two Handles
Faithful Is Not Blind Belief
Everything Happens for a Good Reason
Happiness Can Only Be Found Within
No One Can Hurt You
Make Full Use of What Happens to You
Events Themselves Are Impersonal and Indifferent
Know What You Can Control and What You Can’t
Living Wisdom Is More Important Than Knowing About It
Our Duties Are in Relation to One Another
Pay No Attention to Things That Don’t Concern You
All Advantages Have a Price
Never Regret
Recognize Mere Appearances for What They Are
Refrain from Defending Your Own Reputation
Stick with Your Own Business
Don’t Demand That Things Happen as You Wish
Avoid Adapting Other People’s Negative Views
Your Will Is Always
II. Black Paintings
Pilgrimage
The Coven
Frail Pair
Or, Judith
Saturn
Maja
The Fountain
The Reading
Duel with Clubs
Two Old Folks Eating
Atropos or the Three Fates
The Dog
III. Of Hours
Psalm of the Flying Shell (4:30 a.m.)
Window with Wild Garlic in Wellfleet (5 a.m.)
How Many Dawns (5:30 a.m.)
Morse and Fractals (Dawn Blessings)
Let Me Thrum (6 a.m.)
With Roses (6:30 a.m.)
Psalm of Morning Mist
Thistle and Hull (7 a.m.)
Duet of Tree House and Rain (7:30 a.m.)
Rose/Boat (8 a.m.)
Blue Ladder (9 a.m.)
Blue Window (10 a.m.)
Green Laddered Thanksgiving (11 a.m.)
Lament of Shovel and Bell (Noon)
Urn and Hooks (1 p.m.)
Depth Lure Notebook (2 p.m.)
Scissored In (3 p.m.)
Blackberry City and Sundial Talk (4 p.m.): Time
Moon Lilies (5:30 p.m.)
Moth over City at Dusk
Scroll and Pencil in Late Light
Globed and Curtained (7 p.m.)
Thorny Bridge
Nesting Book (Bedtime)
Notes
Acknowledgments