Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- I -- Winter Birds -- Carrying the Songs -- Timbre -- Our Words -- First Poetry -- Forgetting Tulips -- Augers -- Demolition -- Oughterard Lemons -- Golden Lane -- Indigo -- Rún -- Starlings -- Bright City -- Stranger -- Walking out to Island Eddy -- Sheep at Night in the Inagh Valley -- Weaning -- Whin -- Barbari -- II -- To Colmcille Returning -- Going for Milk -- Script -- Shells -- Survivors -- Breastbone -- Exuberance -- Banny -- Orientation -- Aubade -- Pollen -- Vogelherd Horse, 30,000 BC -- Chauvet -- The Force -- Lamped -- from Oar -- Eagles' Rock -- Holy Well -- Thirst in the Burren -- Oar -- Thalassa -- 'Taom' -- Tree Stump -- Turf Boats -- Prodigal -- No Sense in Talking -- Hills -- The Foot of Muckish -- Listening Clay -- Easter -- Scar -- Eros -- Afterlove -- Narrow Gatherings -- Dark Spring -- Wet Doves -- Nest -- Crow's Nest -- After the Burial -- Sympathetic Vibration -- Foundations -- Votive Lamp -- from The Parchment Boat -- Crannóg -- Shards -- Introductions -- Murdering the Language -- Hunter's Moon -- Ontario Drumlin -- Patched Kayak -- Oysters -- Tending -- Violin -- Viola d'Amore -- Arctic Tern -- Milk -- Winter Paths -- Hazelnuts -- Mountain -- Scríob -- Thole-Pin -- Easter Houses -- Song in Windsor, Ontario -- Driving through Light in West Limerick -- Attention -- An Altered Gait -- Bulbs -- Night -- Migrations -- Between the Jigs and the Reels.