Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- I The Meanest Flower -- The Meanest Flower -- Ghazal: It's Heartache -- Ghazal: Lilies of the Valley -- Ghazal: The Candles of the Chestnut Trees -- Ghazal (after Hafez) -- Ghazal: To Hold Me -- Ghazal: Of Ghazals -- II The Mediterranean of the Mind -- The Mediterranean of the Mind -- The Middle Tone -- Al Fresco -- Scorpion-grass -- Water Blinks -- The Valley -- Overblown Roses -- Come Close -- Soapstone Creek -- Soapstone Retreat -- On a Line from Forough Farrokhzad -- III Impending Whiteness -- Impending Whiteness -- Amy's Horse -- The Year of the Dish -- Motherhood -- The Robin and the Eggcup -- Song for Springfield Park -- On Lines from Paul Gauguin -- Magpies -- Ghazal: The Servant -- Ghazal: The Children -- Ghazal: My Son -- Signal -- Sundays -- Tintinnabuli -- Notes and Dedications.