From the Book - First United States edition.
In a time of distance. A washing line outside a Croft house --
In a time of distance. Journeys. Our journeys --
The train arriving at Platform Two --
The language of pilots --
College of Hypnotherapy, next right --
Quality provisions for Ever --
Not Rus in Urbe but Suburbia in Rure --
Mustard field, Rajasthan --
Ne pas. A Scottish four seasons. Spring --
Winter. Interlude: seven sonnets. Sixty talks to Eighteen --
Eighteen replies to Sixty --
Forty intervenes, remembers Horace --
Adventure and uncertainty --
It takes a village to raise a child --
King James VI of Scotland reflects on the loss of his only friend when young --
Love unforgotten. Of the animals. Primate cousins --
The gentleness of whales --
Small, insignificant antelope --
Our world, their world. Of love & longing. Love over Scotland --
On clouds over Mull: a love song --
On looking at a child. Of books & reading. The goodness of books --
Remembering Muriel Spark --
A maker of beautiful books --
Library of Congress. Places. Greece --
The seven hills of Edinburgh --
Craiglockhart Hill, a century ago --
Arthur's seat and geology --
Imagined conversation on Blackford Hill --
Braid Hills. Unrelated poems. Northland --
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg --
Fish, and the thoughts of fish --
