Contents
Introduction
Robert Ray Black Measures
Life Like Green
Nothing Unknown
Untitled
Glosses
Briseis’ Daddy
What is argued
Growing Bones
Dick Gamble
Saturday’s Child
Jim Carruth Signing for the Deaf
Picking up the Song (in a break in the harvest)
Black Cart
The Progressive Canadian Barn Dance
Prince of Tinkers
Old Ploughman
Farm Sale
Ellen Cranitch Dying Time
The Aftermath
Ghost Bikes
Valentine’s Day, Regent’s Park
Deep Blue
My Mother’s Hair
The Suicide’s Defence
The New Cemetery, Killarney ix
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