Bone fires: new and selected poems

How my sister, my mother, and I still travel down Balwearie Road

New poems. Wee spider

Family fugue

Your neighbor as youself

Time machine

Haiku

Mary Smart

Prayer chain

Snoring

In the rose garden

Encounter

Monday

To a brainy child in distress

Ending with a line by Curtis Mayfield

Last walk at home

R.S. Thomas

Dispatches from Devereux Slough

Interesting times

Good God

Bone fires

North Sea (1978). Foreigners

We dare not go a-hunting

Planting

Close

My parents have come home laughing

Kicking the candles out

Goodbye to a poltergeist

Lullaby for Amy

Rote Walker (1981). Greensleeves

Ascension of the Red Madonna

Glossolalia

Accordion music

Spell

Descriptions of heaven and hell

Rote walker

What child is this?

Far and away (1985). Far and away

Supremes

Long-stemmed roses

By-blows

While you are gone I look for constellations

Poem in June

City in the sea

Cavafy in Redondo

Black Rivieria (1990). Children

Black Rivieria

Awakened by sea lions

Shrine and the burning wheel

Days of '74

Good Friday

Gift

Miss Urquhart's tiara

Questions for Ecclesiastes (1997). Ground swell

Transfiguration

Proverbs

Dressing my daughters

After disappointment

Wave

Grid

Questions for Ecclesiastes

Upswelling

Unholy sonnets

Skin cancer

Last suppers

Worry bird

Unholy sonnets (2000). Prologue

Word "answer"

Someone is always praying

Cycle

Breath like a house fly

Sightings

Nothing but pleasure

World

Epilogue

To the green man (2004), To the green man

Testimony of a roasted chicken

Butterflies under persimmon

Astragaloi

Fox night

As close as breathing

In the tube

In church with Hart Crane

George Herbert

Excitement

Five psalms

Canticle

Song of Roland

Over the river and through the woods

Secret ocean

Summer

Coyotes

Pair of tanagers

Prayer for our daughters

Epistles (2007). In the clouds

For the birds

To the trees

On the street

Through the waves.