Contents

Introduction

Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell

Sanctuary

Frog

The Christ is Born

Chapel Space

Come Visit

On a Cross

Hear

May You Live

The Ink of My Heart

Blue Eyes

Estuary

Dialogue

Birds

Lobsters

The Life of Small Ones

I Starfish

II Dark Ants

III Fireflies

A Chicken

On Good Friday

Delores Gauntlett

The Carpenter

A Song for My Father

Under These Stones

Interview with a Centenarian

Doctorbird

The Empty House

Croaker

The Watertank Revisited

A Question of Love

The fever with which she danced

That Sunday Morning

Pocomania

Kendal Crash – 1957

The Balmyard

Freeing Her Hands to Clap ix

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