“In Creation” was originally published in 1996. A new cover was created for the book in 2003, which makes this a second edition of the book.

1. Invocation

Beginning Word 1
Raise the Sun 2
Falling 3
Five Haiku 4
Dancing All Night 5
Credo 6
Seventeen Sounds of Water Falling and
Three Levels of Attention 8
Dalliance 9

2. Mortal Consideration

Clothes Horse 12
Things I Forgot 13
Archaeology 14
Day in the Life 15
Reunion 16
Post Script 17
Out Walking to School 18
On the Farm 22
As If For No Reason 23
Taking Her Body 24

3. At the End of the Age of Reason

Manhattan, a Primer 26
Not Much 27
At the End of the Age of Reason 28
Turn 29
At the Crossing 30
Lewis and Clark 31
Listening to Autumn 32
My Lion 33
The Letter Comes Tightly Folded 34

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