The Thin Smoke of the Heart Book

	The Line	3
	The Douglas Fir	6
	The Paperboy	8
	Russ	10
	Old Man Dunne	12
	The Rhododendron	14
	In a Small Town on the West Coast	19
	Late August at the Mouth of the Fraser River	20
	Bullhead Fishing	21
	The Netshed (1)	23
	The Netshed (2)	24
	Two Cigarettes, Burning	25
	Meditation on a Fall Day	26
	Vow	28
	Yesterday	29
	The Stillborn Child	33
	Love Letters	47
	The eyes of Thomas Hardy's first wife	48
	Walking to a Game of Pick-up Football One Autumn Afternoon, I See an Adulterer Rendezvous with His Mistress	49
	College Town	50
	Je Veux's Just Another Phrase for "Something that I'd Choose"	51
	The Apartment on Saskatchewan Drive	53
	On a City Avenue	54
	Morenz	57
	The NHL	58
	The Reel	60
	Galiano Island, a Few Days Before Christmas	63
	Final Night in Fort Chipewyan	64
	Cemetery at Olds (en route to the Rockies for the weekend)	65
	A Former Fisherman Enters a Used Bookstore at Night	66
	Edwardian Street	68
	Walking to Calm a Crying Newborn	69
	A Short Story Illustrating the Fate of the Poet's Work	72
	Acknowledgments	75