Cover -- Also by Annie Finch -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- New Poems -- Blessing on the Poets -- Homebirth -- Abortion Spell -- Your Land -- Stone and Cloth and Paper -- The Naming -- Frost's Grave -- Tarot: The Magician Card -- Keys -- Beach of Edges -- Earth Day -- Revelry -- Architecture -- Poems, 2000-1990 -- Watching the Whale -- Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle -- Wild Yeasts -- Earth Goddess and Sky God -- Conversation -- Calendars -- Over Dark Arches -- A Carol for Carolyn -- Chain of Women -- Ghazal for a Poetess -- Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant -- Butterfly Lullaby -- Intimations of Pregnancy -- Walk with Me -- Two Bodies -- Final Autumn -- Elegy for My Father -- Poems for the Wheel of the Year -- Samhain -- Winter Solstice Chant -- Imbolc Dance -- A Seed for Spring Equinox -- A Wreath for Beltane -- Summer Solstice Chant -- Lammas -- A Mabon Crown -- Letter for Emily Dickinson -- A Dance for the Inland Sea -- Iowa Barn -- Bluet -- Landing Under Water, I See Roots -- The Furious Sun in Her Mane -- Changing Woman -- Spider Woman -- Aphrodite -- Eve -- Inanna -- Coatlique -- Nut -- Brigid -- Rhiannon -- Running in Church -- Blood Charm: From the Menstrual Hut -- Encounter -- Gulf War and Child: A Curse -- Being a Constellation -- My Raptor -- The Wish for Eyes -- The Last Mermother -- Tribute -- The Intellect of Woman -- Moon -- Poems, 1989-1980 -- Courtship -- Zaraf's Star -- Goddess -- Pearl -- Interpenetrate -- Strangers -- Insect -- The Grim Garden -- Inside the Violet -- Blue Willow -- Speak Softly -- The Door -- No Snake -- A Small Sound in the Dark Woods -- From the Lost Poems -- Such Husks -- Now in November -- Song of the Sorry Side -- Awful Friend -- Nightmare -- Resolution -- Another Pregnant Woman Remembers Incest -- Tongue of Language -- Dusk -- Lesson from a Rock -- Reconciliation Bread.

Night Rain -- Fawns -- An Imaginary Companion -- The Ages' Years: A Dialogue -- Harvest Seam -- Sundown -- Shallow Sky -- Childless -- Wrist-Bracelet -- Wine-Glass Woman -- Lady Bug -- A Wreath of Time -- She That -- From The Encyclopedia of Scotland -- Invocation -- One, from "Rockwood" -- The Body of the Thing, from "Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat" -- Poems, 1979-1970 -- The August Porch -- Spells -- A Dusk Song -- In Cities, Be Alert -- List -- Still Life -- Coy Mistress -- When Daphne Ran -- Lucid Waking -- Sapphics for Patience -- Another Reluctance -- A Way to See -- First Poem -- Caribou Kitchen -- Performance Works, 1983-2010 -- "Creation Story," excerpted and adapted from Sheba in Eden -- From The Mermaid Tragedy -- From Marina Tsvetaeva: A Captive Spirit -- From Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams -- From Wolf Song -- Translations, 1978-2010 -- The Seafarer -- Louise Labé -- Sonnet 2 [Handsome Brown Eyes] -- Sonnet 5 [Bright Venus] -- Sonnet 13 [The Ivy and the Tree] -- Sonnet 14 [The Point of Death] -- Sonnet 16 [Impotence] -- Sonnet 18 [Kiss Me Again] -- Sonnet 19 [A Meeting with Diana] -- Sonnet 21 [Love Forces My Judgment] -- Sonnet 23 [The Tangle] -- Anna Akhmatova -- The White Bird -- Cleopatra -- Lot's Wife -- Andrée Chedid -- Thirst -- In Praise of Emptiness -- A Fragment of Sappho -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Titles and First Lines -- About the Author.