The manuscript’s epigraph is from Jan Zwicky’s poem ‘Depth’, published in The Long Walk by University of Regina Press, 2016. The line ‘Blessed is the field as it burns’ in ‘All of it’ is borrowed from Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s poem ‘Blessed is the Field’, published in Song and The Orchard by Carcanet Press, 2008. The final stanza of  ‘Compline’, reworks lines from Jan Zwicky’s poem ‘Kinderszenen’, published in Forge by Gaspereau Press, 2011. The epigraph for part three is from Evan Boland’s poem ‘First Year’, published in Code by Carcanet Press, 2001.

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