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Acknowledgements

Earlier versions of some of these poems first appeared in ARC, Convolvulus, The Malahat Review, Poetry Canada Review and Prism international. My thanks to the editors. A selection was also published in the chapbook Waiting Game (Reference West, Victoria, 1998). A Project Assistance Grant from the British Columbia Arts Council in 1997 was very much appreciated.

For their help (literary and otherwise), I am grateful to many friends: Patricia Young, Linda Rogers, Anne Kelly, Kerry Slavens, Margaret Blackwood, Liza (E.) Harris, Cathryn Dimock, Ian Callan and the late Robin and Sylvia Skelton. Georgina Montgomery, Bryony Wynne Boutilier, Jenny Winstone, Monica Turner and Sharon Churchill are still The Girls. I thank The Hawthorne Society, especially Sandy Mayzell, John Gould and Horst Martin, for carrying the torch when we lost three of our founding members. Joy Gugeler, editor of editors, I thank for her patience, professionalism and her profound insight. Michael Doyle, with his Irish generosity, made available his beautiful home on Pender Island when I most needed sanctuary. So, too, did David and Andrea Spalding, Kathleen Lightman and Terry Chantler, Georgina M. and Lawrence Pitt. Blessings on your Pender homes. Bruce Morgan of Virtual Consultants is my virtual angel and Alex Lavdovsky of Classic Engraving my artistic avenger.

Finally, and forever, my love to Ben and Joanna Lillard. Your dad would be proud.

Note: All quotes from Remy de Gourmont are from Letters to the Amazon, an inspiring but sadly out-of-print book published by Chatto and Windus (London) in 1931. This translation is by Richard Aldington. The music of George Ivan (Van) Morrison continues to give my life a soundtrack with soul.

Did ye get healed? Yes.

Waterford Vase

It captured Sunday night’s sunset. Held Monday’s sun. It caught Tuesday night’s firelight. Look. It saved you some.