
Object Lessons
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me	p. 19
The Rooms of Other Women Poets	p. 20
Object Lessons	p. 22
On the Gift of The Birds of America by John James Audubon	p. 24
The Game	p. 25
The Shadow Doll	p. 26
The River	p. 27
Mountain Time	p. 28
Bright-cut Irish Silver	p. 29
We Were Neutral in the War	p. 30
Outside History
The Achill Woman	p. 35
A False Spring	p. 37
The Making of an Irish Goddess	p. 38
White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland	p. 40
Daphne Heard with Horror the Addresses of the God	p. 41
The Photograph on My Father's Desk	p. 43
We Are Human History. We Are Not Natural History	p. 44
An Old Steel Engraving	p. 45
In Exile	p. 46
We Are Always Too Late	p. 47
What We Lost	p. 48
Outside History	p. 50
Distances
The Latin Lesson	p. 53
Nights of Childhood	p. 55
The Carousel in the Park	p. 56
Contingencies	p. 58
Spring at the Edge of the Sonnet	p. 59
Our Origins Are in the Sea	p. 60
Midnight Flowers	p. 61
Doorstep Kisses	p. 62
A Different Light	p. 63
Hanging Curtains with an Abstract Pattern in a Child's Room	p. 64
Ghost Stories	p. 66
What Love Intended	p. 67
Distances	p. 69

The Journey
The Oral Tradition	p. 75
Mise Eire	p. 78
Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening	p. 80
The Glass King	p. 82
The Women	p. 84
The Briar Rose	p. 86
Fever	p. 87
Lace	p. 89
The Unlived Life	p. 91
The Journey	p. 93
Envoi	p. 97
Suburban Woman: A Detail	p. 98
I Remember	p. 100
The Bottle Garden	p. 101
Growing-up	p. 102
Sarah on Holiday	p. 103
Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland	p. 104
An Irish Childhood in England: 1951	p. 106
The Emigrant Irish	p. 108
Fond Memory	p. 109
The Wild Spray	p. 110
Nocturne	p. 112
Listen. This Is the Noise of Myth	p. 113
Domestic Interior
Degas's Laundresses	p. 119
Woman in Kitchen	p. 121
A Ballad of Beauty and Time	p. 122
The Serpent in the Garden	p. 125
Pose	p. 127
"Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark"	p. 128
The New Pastoral	p. 130
The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish	p. 131
The Muse Mother	p. 134
In the Garden	p. 136
On Renoir's The Grape-Pickers	p. 138
Domestic Interior	p. 139
Night Feed	p. 139
Monotony	p. 141
Energies	p. 143
Hymn	p. 144
Patchwork	p. 145
Endings	p. 147
Fruit on a Straight-Sided Tray	p. 148
After a Childhood away from Ireland	p. 149
Domestic Interior	p. 151
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