Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction

PART 1. The Ghosts of Love

• Spring
• Beads
• Love Is Braided in Her Hair
• Hummingbird Dance
• How Might I Thread This Thought, My Dear?
• Still There
• The Cold
• Your Wilding Ways
• The Last Rose
• Dearest Mess Beside Me Fallen
• Touched
• This Common Phrase
• Petals of a Dream
• We Are the Lonely Stars
• Blind
• Past the Window
• Turtle Divers
• Death's Lament
• If Happiness Had Wings I Would Fly

PART 2. My Own Creation

• My Own Creation
• Tired
• Alone
• Ashore
• Eons
• The Waltz
• Shades of Light
• Hard
• The Dream Merchant
• On the Other Side of Death
• Invitation
• Virtue from Afar
• Above
• The Good Night
• Until the Ink Runs Dry
• Why I Write
• Intricately Carved
• A Thought in a Thunderstorm
• They Told Me
• Sour
• A Letter by Candlelight
• Worded Woods
• A Single Poem
• Enough

PART 3. Once It Was a Day

• The Warm October Day
• Fresh Out
• After Swimming
• The Skull
• We Found Them Swimming
• Longing
• Once Again
• Counted
• Wind Chimes
• The Race
• Fallen
• Abandoned
• Gradually
• The Wait
• Wishes
• Cherished
• Language of the Mist
• Where the Forest Ends

• Dedication
• Other Works By This Author
• About the Author