Contents

Send Word

By-The-Wind Sailor

Safe Passage

Old Bones

Kestrel

A Singular Voice

The Humming Top

Found in the Margins: 6th Century

The Shoals

Dead Man’s Bootlaces

On A Grassy Slope

Dogwood

The Flowering

Lindisfarne

I Am

Aidan: a Life

Cuthbert: A Life

Colmán on Lindisfarne

Slowdancing: Inishbofin

The Rattle of Old Bones

Death Lullaby

Food for the Journey

Crossing the Sand

Near Restful Waters

Bilberry Bells and Asphodel

Wood

Grandfather Ted / John Connors

The Wall

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