Shorewords Book

	Preface
	Naomi	7
	Mara	9
	Out of the Sea	12
	The Outside	37
	The Women Who Raised Goats	47
	El otro Mexico	48
	Fall, 1855, the settlement called Whatcom	50
	From Among the Isles of Shoals	59
	A White Heron	65
	Memory of Cape Cod	74
	Impression: Fog off the Coast of Dorset	75
	From The Liars' Club	75
	Small Craft Warnings	92
	Vigil	104
	The Marginal World	123
	Channelled Whelk	128
	The Outer Bar	134
	Singled Out	135
	Warning	135
	At the Shore	136
	Santa Rosa	137
	The Edge	141
	Prologue, from Notes from the Shore	145
	Osprey, from Notes from the Shore	148
	The Shore	160
	Intertidal Zone	165
	Edge Effect	167
	Wild Nights - Wild Nights!	175
	I started Early - took my Dog	175
	From The Story of Avis	176
	Sea Longing	186
	Woman on Sand	186
	The Mapmaker's Daughter	188
	First Things First	189
	Ocean Water Absorbs Red, Orange, and Yellow Light	199
	The Littoral Zone	201
	Inland	215
	On the Edge	216
	A Subject of the Waves	217
	Beach Glass	219
	From Mama Day	221
	Cast Away	223
	A Rolling Hitch	228
	Bebe Sellars: May 1968	238
	Old Christmas	247
	From The Weir	257
	Quiet Days in Malibu	265
	3 a.m. Kitchen: My Father Talking	275
	Boat Ride	276
	Putting Up Boat	282
	Blessing the boats	293
	Crabbing	293
	From The Awakening	299
	On the Dunes	302
	To the Sea	303
	Exiled	303
	Burial	304
	Low-Tide	305
	The Fish	305
	A Grave	307
	Preface, from The Houes by the Sea	308
	Tuesday, October 7th, from The House by the Sea	312
	Texts	314
	Sailing	316
	The Great Blue Heron	332
	From The Salt Line	334
	A Whale of a Different Color - Melville and the Movies: The Great White
	Whale and Free Willy	343
	A Season on Maui	355
	On this wondrous sea	358
	Exultation is the going	359
	December 11, 1912. (At home in Herring Gut, known to the better element as Port Clyde.)	359
	Back in the U.S.A.	365
	The Cabin Boy	370
	Notes on Authors	379
	Acknowledgments	389