Volume Two

Poetry Collection

Chapters

• In the beginning we discovered the end
• The wild never
• Dreamscape for the doomed
• Extract from the inferential
• In a death pact with his wife
• The morality of fear
• Hymn of Mephistopheles
• This is the dawn: cold & reddening
• On becoming the Gorgon
• Lean in: hear the raw singing
• Saydnaya
• Zero Hour
• Vesper II
• Sheathed in light
• Vesper
• On first undressing the heart
• Fields of vision
• History does not sleep
• This is where the story becomes itself
• Ode to lonely trees
• Boy walking dog near destroyed building
• Watching the Yellow River from a Municipal Bridge
• My daughter asks what it means to be a feminist
• Janus-tongued
• Extract from a square of earth
• I see the heron take flight
• Overlooking Providence Canyon
• Stirring the loam
• The slow-bruise of history
• Etymology of losing
• Night is a threadbare memorial
• Carcinoma
• Slip
• A letter to John Berryman
• The evening speaks
• Ways of the wild things
• Meditations on the kingdom of the bluebird
• Midsummer/ abandon
• Of course I heard
• Bearing Fruit
• Tenor of the Dawn Chorus
• Lost gods also wander
• Narcissus meets the mirrored pool