TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Poems

  • APPROACHING SAMHAIN
  • THE HOUSE OF SECRET SORROW
  • THE DOLLS
  • THE SHADOW MOTHER
  • THE FEMALE ICARUS
  • SLUT
  • AN ARGUMENT IN THE KITCHEN
  • THE SELFISHNESS OF THE TREES
  • SUMMER SONG FOR STRAUSS
  • THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT CHER
  • WHAT THE SMELL OF BOXWOOD PROMISED
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • THE TANGIBLE ILLUMINATION OF SUMMER
  • INVOCATION: PRAYER FOR CREATION
  • SOLSTICE
  • ADVICE FROM THE LION AT NOON

by Margaret McCarthy