Once she woke me in the streaky dark
to savour one of her delights -
"larks against bells," she called it.
We carried our coffees down to the minty garden
and waited ankle-deep in dew.
Across the shallow valley,
the early traffic crept in glimmers
through the groundmist. At dawn
the cannonade of bells from the Certosa -
as she had promised -
did not drown out small songs.
--from Loquacious Philomel
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773519033 9780773585461
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.Z58
- LCCN Item number
- A9 1999eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (129 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230156 (OCoLC)767734337 (CaOOCEL)435848
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- ONE 12
- The Neighbourhood in Phases 14
- A Place of One's Own 16
- Batterie de Cuisine: The Cleaver 17
- The Blue Vase 18
- On Hearing the Internationale at the Bloor Street Subway Station 19
- Heard on the Street 21
- The Two Graces 22
- Tomatoes 24
- Thrift Shop 25
- Cafeteria 27
- Insomnia 28
- Father and Daughter 29
- Alarm 31
- Recovery Room 33
- Aubade 35
- TWO 36
- The Tie 38
- Two Collegial Elegies 39
- The Asparagus Feast 43
- The Exorcism 48
- Language Lessons 49
- Loquacious Philomel 50
- Orpheus Silent 51
- Rain 52
- THREE 54
- Looking Back At Us 56
- The Coral Sea 58
- Recalling the Roll: Hampton Institute 1955/1995 59
- The Hot-Rods Ride at Dusk 60
- The Hunt 62
- The Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.: 1,000 Political Photos in the Occidental Grill 63
- The American Smile 65
- FOUR 68
- War Stories 70
- A Stop in Orvieto 72
- FIVE 76
- Congreve 78
- That Island 80
- Album Leaves 81
- "Because We Have Known Them" 87
- "The Supplement" 88
- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 90
- SIX 94
- Bas-Relief 96
- King Charles's Head 97
- The Cardinal's Cortege 98
- Parish Records, ca. 1600 99
- Rutherford's Division of the Atom 101
- Evidence of Things Not Seen 102
- SEVEN 104
- 3 A.M. 106
- September Letter 107
- Towards Winter 109
- For Murray Hunter, M.D. 116
- Old Man and Skeleton in a Teaching Hospital 117
- EIGHT 120
- Notes on Speech and Silence 122
- Famine 124
- Pastimes 125
- Reading Habits 126
- For P.K. Page 127
- Akhmatova 128
- Smuggler's Requiem 130
- Shirley Wiitasalo Accepts an Arts Award 131
- Hopper Retrospective 132
- Minor English Watercolours of the 19th Century 133
- Deaf Visitors Among Dutch Paintings 135
- 8 1/2" x 11" White Unlined 136
- Respects to William Basse 137
- Acknowledgments 140
