"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-590) and index.

From double Persephone. Formal garden -- Persephone departing -- Double Persephone -- Uncollected poems I. The interior decorator -- The somnambulist -- The slideshow -- Houses -- From the circle game. This is a photograph of me -- After the flood, we -- In my ravines -- Man with a hook -- The circle game -- Some objects of wood and stone -- The settlers -- From the animals in that country. The animals in that country -- The surveyors -- The green man -- The landlady -- At the tourist centre in Boston -- A night in the royal Ontario museum -- Elegy for the giant tortoises -- Roominghouse, winter -- Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein -- The reincarnation of Captain Cook -- From the journals of Susanna Moodie. Journal I (1832-1840). Disembarking at Quebec -- Further arrivals -- The planters -- The two fires -- Looking in a mirror -- Departure from the bush -- Journal II (1840-1871). Death of a young son by drowning -- The immigrants -- Dream I : the bush garden -- Charivari -- The double voice -- Journal III (1871-1969). Daguerreotype taken in old age -- Visit to Toronto, with companions -- Resurrection -- A bus along St. Clair -- December -- From procedures for underground. Eden is a zoo -- Girl and horse, 1928 -- The small cabin -- Two gardens -- Interview with a tourist -- Procedures for underground -- Dreams of the animals -- A soul, geologically -- Habitation -- Woman skating -- The creatures of the zodiac -- The end of the world : weekend, near Toronto -- Buffalo in compound : Alberta -- Power politics. You fit into me... -- He reappears -- You take my hand... -- She considers evading him -- They eat out -- After the agony... -- My beautiful wooden leader... -- He is a strange biological phenomenon -- You want to go back... -- Their attitudes differ -- They travel by air -- Not the shore but an aquarium... -- You have made your escape... -- Because you are never here... -- Imperialist, keep off... -- After all... -- Small tactics -- There are better ways of doing this -- Yes at first... -- The accident has occurred... -- We are hard on each other -- He shifts from east to west -- At first I was given centuries... -- You refuse to own... -- We hear nothing... -- You did it... -- Your back is rough... -- This is a mistake... -- Beyond truth... -- They are hostile nations -- Returning from the dead... -- Spring again... -- This year I intended children... -- I am sitting... -- I see you... -- We are standing... -- Sleeping in... -- What is it... -- You are the sun... -- Hesitations outside the door... -- Lying here... -- I look up... -- I can't tell you... -- They were all inaccurate... -- He is last seen -- From you are happy. Newsreel : man and firing squad -- November -- Digging -- Spring poem -- Tricks with mirrors -- Songs of the transformed. Pig song -- Bull song -- Rat song -- Crow song -- Song of the worms -- Owl song -- Siren song -- Song of the fox -- Song of the hen's head -- Corpse song -- Circe / mud poems. Through this forest... -- Men with the heads of eagles... -- It was not my fault... -- People come from all over... -- I made no choice... -- There must be more... -- You may wonder... -- You stand at the door... -- There are so many things... -- Holding my arms down... -- My face... -- The fist... -- This is not something... -- Last year I abstained... -- Your flawed body... -- This story was told to me... -- We walk in the cedar groves... -- Not your I fear... -- You think you are safe... -- When you look... -- Here are the holy birds... -- Now it is winter... -- It's the story that counts... -- There are two islands... -- There is only one of everything. Is / not -- Eating fire -- Four auguries -- Head against white -- There is only one of everything -- Late August -- From two-headed poems. Burned space -- Foretelling the future -- The woman who could not live with her faulty heart -- Five poems for grandmothers -- Marrying the hangman -- Four small elegies -- Two-headed poems -- The woman makes peace with her faulty heart -- The puppet of the wolf -- A red shirt -- You begin -- From true stories. True stories -- Landcrab II -- Postcard -- Nothing -- From notes towards a poem that can never be written : Flying inside your own body -- The arrest of the stockbroker -- French colonial -- Earth -- Variations on the word love -- Sunset II -- Variation on the word sleep -- From Interlunar. Snake poems. Lesson on snakes -- Lies about snakes -- Bad mouth -- Eating snake -- The white snake -- After Heraclitus -- Interlunar. Bedside -- Lunchtime during a peak year in the yellowjacket cycle -- The saints -- Hidden -- Keep -- A Sunday drive -- Orpheus (I) -- Eurydice -- One species of love, after a painting by Hieronymus Bosch -- Giselle in daytime -- The robber bridegroom -- Harvest -- A massacre before it is heard about -- Orpheus (2) -- The sidewalk -- The white cup -- The skeleton, not as an image of death -- A stone -- Sumacs -- A boat -- A blazed trail -- Interlunar -- From selected poems II. Aging female poet sits on the balcony -- Porcupine meditation -- Aging female poet on laundry day -- Nightshade on the way to school -- Mothers -- She -- How to tell one country after another -- Machine. gun. nest. -- The rest -- Another elegy -- Galiano coast : four entrances -- Squaw lilies : some notes -- Three praises -- Not the moon -- From morning in the burned house. You come back -- A sad child -- In the secular night -- Red fox -- Miss July grows older -- Manet's Olympia -- Ava Gardner reincarnated as a magnolia -- Helen of Troy does counter dancing -- Romantic -- Cell -- The loneliness of the military historian -- Half-hanged Mary -- Owl burning -- A pink hotel in California -- Man in a glacier -- Flowers -- Two dreams, 2 -- The Ottawa river by night -- Vermilion flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona -- The moment -- Girl without hands -- From the door. Gasoline -- Mourning for cats -- Butterfly -- My mother dwindles... -- Crickets -- Heart -- Sor Juana works in the garden -- Owl and pussycat, some years later -- The singer of owls -- The last rational man -- War photo -- The valley of the heretics -- Saint Joan of Arc on a postcard -- They give evidence -- Possible activities -- Questioning the dead -- The nature of gothic -- Boat song -- Dutiful -- Disturbed earth -- Reindeer moss on granite -- The third age visits the arctic -- You heard the man you love -- At brute point -- The door -- From dearly. Lat poems -- Ghost cat -- Passports -- Coconut -- The tin woodwoman gets a massage -- Princess clothing -- Betrayal -- Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday -- Cassandra considers declining the gift -- Shadow -- Songs for murdered sisters. 1. Empty chair -- 2. Enchantment -- 3. Anger -- 4. Dream -- 5. Bird soul -- 6. Lost -- 7. Rage -- Coda : song -- The dear ones -- Digging up the Scythians -- September mushrooms -- A drone scans the wreckage -- Aflame -- Update on werewolves -- Siren brooding on her eggs -- Spider signatures -- At the translation conference -- Walking in the madman's wood -- Feather -- Fatal light awareness -- Improvisation on a first line by Yeats -- Plasticene suite. 1. Rock-like object on beach -- 2. Faint hopes -- 3. Foliage -- 4. Midway island albatross -- 5. Editorial notes -- 6. Sorcerer's apprentice -- 7. Whales -- 8. Little robot -- 9. The bright side -- The twilight of the gods -- This fiord looks like a lake -- Hayfoot -- Mr. Lionheart -- Invisible man -- Silver slippers -- Within -- Dearly -- Blackberries -- Uncollected poems II (1991-2023). Paper boat -- Ah people -- Small book -- Effigy of a poet, in a park -- Three-eyes -- Old letters discovered -- Another Joan of Arc poem -- Ariadne sends a message -- Baritones -- Opera villains -- Thirty -- Thriller suite -- Watchman -- The gods like the old songs -- The disaster of war : a sequel -- Muddier -- My grade five class reciting "in Flanders fields," remembrance day -- The muse of sorrow -- Message on a well rim : Aigues-Mortes -- Tell me something good -- Pyjamas with sheep on them -- Bad heart -- Scattering wood -- In pain -- Lucky -- Cleaning out the fridge -- Grace before evening meal -- Now.