Contents

Crossing the Threshold

Naming

Walking with the Word ‘Tree’

Spring

Daffodils (Speculation on Future Blackness)

Finding Space (I)

Climb with More Singing

Rhododendrons

Finding Space (II)

On the First Day of Autumn

Going Still

Listen

Black Walking

Among the Great Oaks in Autumn

But What Are these Woods Anyway?

Leisure (I)

All of a Sudden

Finding Space (III)

Right Now I’m Standing

Autumn

Leisure (II)

Those Who Can Afford Time

Essay on Dog Walking (I)

Essay on Dog Walking (II)

Masochism

On Property

Behaviour (A Black Man Enters the Woods)

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