Contents
Foreword by Mary Oliver
Part One
How This Poet Thinks
Hopper's Paintings
Landscape in Blue and Bronze
From Eleven Years Later
Breaking Silence—For My Son
Naming My Daughter
Going
Miniature
Sea Watchers
From a Rented Cottage by Winnisquam in Rain
At the Mystic Aquarium
Gifts
Evensong
The Sleepers
The Decision
Nightwork
Sag Harbor Sundown
Crossing the Sound
Pemaquid Beach After a Week Alone
On Hearing of the Sudden Death of a Friend
At the Enosberg Falls Cemetery
Lamentation
Lightning Spreads Out Across the Water
Watching Light in the Field
Part Two
In the Winter of My Sixtieth Year
When I Wake to a Bedroom Filled with Blue Lights
In the City Without a Name
Weed in Drought
Location
In the Basement of the First Church
From the Blue Room at the Colony
Visiting Frost's Grave
Boundaries
Winter Sky over Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Starry Night
Fall Garden and the Weather Coming In
Invocation
The Reading: University College, Galway
Near Galway
Dublin Beggar
Pilot Glasses
Roofmen
Naming
Anniversaries
Still Water
Letter from Cranberry Island
Acknowledgments
About the Author
The May Swenson Poetry Award