Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada Book

	Introduction	15
	Presque Isle, Maine	21
	Boat Builder	21
	Mother's Winter Guests	22
	Wood Stove Sunday	23
	Horse Girls	24
	The Unreturning	26
	The Isosceles Lighthouse	27
	La Route Jackman	29
	Riviere du Loup	30
	Where I Come From	31
	Return of the Native	31
	The Moving Image	33
	Valley-Folk	34
	George Burroughs	34
	The Water and the Rock	35
	The Beach at Noon	35
	After Rain	37
	The Worker Bee	37
	In the Beginning	39
	Cape Enrage	39
	When Ships Sail Too Close	40
	When You Can't Leave Me Anymore	41
	On the Train	41
	All this night long	43
	A Kind of Wakefulness	44
	The Death of My Father	45
	This Catching of Breath at the Top	46
	The Manes P. Aground Off Fort Dufferin	48
	Four O'Clock, New Year's Morning, New River Beach	49
	The Damp Hips of the Women	51
	Poem Upon the Forcible Entry by Cat into a Poem Originally Upon Trilliums	54
	Codicil	54
	For Brigid	55
	Portobello	56
	The Cemetery at Loch End, Catalone, Cape Breton	59
	Nothing	60
	John Thompson	60
	from The Golden Book of Bovinities	62
	Room with a view	63
	The Skin You Wore	64
	And He Wept Aloud, So That the Egyptians Heard It	65
	The Red Wool Shirt	66
	Britain Street	67
	Daughter of Zion	68
	Day's End	69
	Saturday Afternoon	71
	Red Pepper	71
	Orpheus Meets Eurydice in the Underworld	72
	The Refrigerator	73
	Paddling	74
	Lilacs	75
	On Sundays in Summer	77
	Again with Music	77
	Remembering Miller	78
	Old Women and Love	79
	Horse	81
	Turnip Field	82
	The Onion	83
	Ghazal I	84
	Ghazal XXXVII	85
	Open-Air Museum	86
	Wishful Fall	86
	Presence and Process	87
	10 Reasons Why I Fall in Love with Inaccessible Straight Boys Every Damn Time	88
	"Insight into private affairs ... raises certain barristers and magistrates to such great heights"	89
	Men Together	90
	Simone Signoret, Beldam	91
	In Cezanne's studio, we're dappled with joy	92
	Claude Monet's Water Landscapes	92
	December 1972: First Winter Ascension of the Sass Maor	93
	Tattoo	93
	Dikes on Fundy Bay	94
	Antlia the Air Pump	95
	Pegasus the Winged Horse	95
	Octans the Octant	96
	Lynx	97
	A Basement Tale	101
	Always	102
	from Talking to the Birds: 2. to a northern gannet	103
	The Afterlife of Trees	104
	At the Fishhouses	105
	Cape Breton	107
	Poem	109
	Nova Scotia Fish Hut	111
	Early Morning Landing	111
	Orchard in the Woods	112
	Blank Sonnet	114
	Haligonian Market Cry	114
	Blue Elegies: I. v	115
	Love Poem / Song Regarding Weymouth Falls	116
	Chopping Wood	118
	Watermarks	120
	Lorne, Nova Scotia	121
	Banns	123
	Child of the Earth	124
	Drowning Water	126
	The True Names of Birds	128
	The moon on Friday night	128
	The Peonies	129
	On Building a Nest	130
	Passamaquoddy Song of the Stars	132
	You, I, Love, Beauty, Earth	132
	Old Stories	133
	Plawej ans L'nui'site'w	134
	Prayer	135
	Scanning an Afternoon in Winter	135
	Through a Slit in the Tent	136
	The Sadness of Windows	138
	The Fern Kidnappings	139
	The Valley, After Blossoms	140
	Muskoxen	141
	Brave	141
	What We Learned on the Highway Near St. John's	142
	When night meets thread & needle & lies down among the bedclothes	144
	Especially after rain, the gulls	145
	This is the body, consoling itself	146
	The body as dictionary, as bible	149
	Snow; a fear of dying	149
	A move to liquid	151
	A winter's affection: radiomimetic	152
	Heron	154
	Woodcock Feather	154
	Kestrel	155
	Escalade	156
	Crabapple Blossoms	157
	Deer on a Beach	158
	White, Mauve, Yellow	159
	A Name, Many Names	160
	The Lilacs	161
	Bare Places	163
	Skull	164
	Walk After Rain	164
	Multiple Choice	165
	from The Killed	166
	Haunting	167
	Winter Marsh	168
	Undergoing	169
	On the Beach One Day	170
	Auden's Face	171
	Father on My Shoulders	172
	Revelations	173
	River Otters at Play	174
	Dragging Bottom	175
	The Text of Evening	177
	Homesteading	178
	Green Cadillac	179
	Resurrection at West Lake	180
	Charlottetown Harbour	185
	The Island	185
	I've Tasted My Blood	186
	The Squall	187
	That Corrugated Look to Water	190
	The Completion of the Fiddle	191
	Out of the Blizzard	190
	The Boy I Never Met	190
	She Sends Him a Postcard of the Sea	192
	Teaching My Husband to Swim	193
	Departures	194
	from On the Island	195
	Cape Breton in Autumn	196
	My Class Draws a Blank on Robbie Burns	198
	Metamorphosis	199
	Spark	201
	Perfect Circle	201
	The Digging of Deep Wells	203
	Shingle Flies	205
	Me as an Archaeologist	206
	Sledgehammer	207
	My love is strung with the ancient	208
	Hearthouse	209
	Making the Middle Be	211
	North Shore Park	212
	from The Story of My Land	214
	Dark Horses	216
	Cormorants	217
	Some Days, Paradise	217
	A Prayer for My Daughters	218
	For Mordecai Richler's Shalinsky Who Said "A Jew Is an Idea"	220
	Aphelion	221
	My Father Plaits His Granddaughter's Hair	221
	The muted	223
	You Wanted to Hear	223
	Early Morning Was	224
	All Light	225
	How Could They	225
	The Unicorn	226
	What's Lost	231
	Capelin Scull	232
	Painting the Islands	233
	Loom	234
	Burn	236
	The Marriage	237
	Abandoned Outport	239
	If Sonnets Were in Fashion	240
	Daedalus	241
	Riddle	243
	Utopia	245
	Crossing the Straits	247
	Tropical Toads	249
	Night Crossing in Ice	250
	Signal Hill	251
	Let Us Go and Find a Place of Worship	253
	Solar Eclipse, St. John's, Newfoundland	254
	Booman	255
	How to Leave an Island	256
	Another Night in Crawley's Cove	258
	Lupines	259
	Drowned	261
	On The Ice	261
	White Wedding	262
	The Laboratory	263
	from The Grey Islands: "They all save one last squirt"	265
	Cedar Cove	266
	That Night We Were Ravenous	267
	Night in the Ashes	270
	The Time That Passes	271
	The Tilts, Point Lance	272
	Mike's	273
	Poem Without Beginning or End	274
	The Crocus (after snow)	275
	The Heart	276
	Summer Solstice	280
	Longliner at Sunset	281
	Crocuses and Crown-of-Thorns	282
	Biographies	283
	Bibliography	291
	Acknowledgements	301
	Index	307