Contents

Outside the Mind Shop

Locomotion of Laundry

Flag

Landing

The Long Beds

The Quarters

Keepers of the States of Sleep and Wakefulness,

fragment from a Masque

Why the Farm Lay Empty

Coming True from Seed

Outnumbered, One by One

Knapsack of Parting Gifts

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The Queen of Naples, asked about Her Childhood Home 21 Sounds and sweet airs that […] hurt not 23 Woman of Letters 24 Invitation to the Word Game 25 Speaking Voice 26 Turned-Down 28 Earliest Poem in which Muriel Figures 29 School Prize, 1912 30 Album Without Photographs 31 Myrrh 37 In the Dutch Tradition 38 Now May I Arise 39 (Her Envoi) A Chiding 40 Reach 41 First Flower of the Day 42 Loop 45 Salvage 46 Presence 47 Unwrapping 49