Foreword -- Relations. The small Indian pestle at the Applegate House -- Incense -- Kitchen spoons -- Earthenware -- Kinship -- Western outlaws -- The Canada Lynx -- The one thing missing -- Contemplations. In Ashland -- My house -- Contemplation at McCoy Creek -- Constellating -- Hymn to time -- Whiteness -- Geology of the northwest coast -- Hymn to Aphrodite -- Messengers. Element 80 -- The story -- Arion -- Messages -- The dream stone -- Hermes betrayed -- Four lines. The salt -- March -- Harney County catenaries -- Artemisia Tridentata -- Ecola -- Written in the dark -- Song -- Night sounds -- Works. Orders -- The games -- To her task-master -- Definition, or, seeing the horse -- Dead languages -- California landscape paintings at the Portland Art Museum -- My job -- Times. New Year's Day -- Seasonal lines -- October -- Sea Hallowe'en -- Between -- Writing twilight -- The old music. The old music -- Disremembering -- Crossing the Cascades -- Sorrowsong -- The old mad queen -- The pursuit -- 2014 : a hymn -- Envoi. The mist horse -- Afterword -- Postscript