Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- I -- Higher -- No End of Exile -- Magpie -- Steady -- Sycamores -- Weight -- A Question -- Sleep Alights -- Baby Spuds -- Early Flowers -- Overnight -- In No Time -- Only Life -- A Man Unable -- II -- Pointing North -- The Colour of Water -- Dry Flood -- Phenomenon -- True Air -- Midsummer -- Busy -- Secrets -- Old Masters -- Gift -- Limits -- Whispers -- Anstruther -- Dead House -- Same Bird -- Shape of a Chair -- Anklet -- No Forgetting -- Still -- Particles -- Soft Tissue -- Among the Blue -- Calling -- Baci -- The Language of Pines -- The Water, the Shore -- Invisible -- Brief Season -- Watching Primrose -- Dishwater -- A Sense of Occasion -- Promise -- III -- The Middle Distance -- Small Fires -- A Milky Sunlight -- Two Friends -- Mint Tea -- Blue Light -- Basics -- Morning -- Forest Path -- Bright Walkway -- The Painter -- Island -- Currency -- Yellow Ticket -- First Detail -- Introductions -- A to B -- Powder Blue -- Imaginable Longing -- Small Hand -- First Love -- Lately -- Tilleul -- Around the Edge -- Cities -- White Rain -- In Loving Memory -- Younger -- Green Shallows.