To my parents Finn and Rose

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

Counting in the Dark

The Last Thing to Go

Stronger than Pain

The Horizon

The Firebird

The Fall

The Pier

Eating God

What You Don’t See

       May

       Blue-grey

       The Boys

       Baby Man

       The Gift

       Peter

       The Lacewing

       Standing in the Mouth of Love

       The Room at the End of the World

       The First Man

       Pieces of the Day

       The Shifting of the Earth

       Fishing

       Clouds

       The Stain

       Honour Him

       The Seagull

       Torn Down

       Falling Together

       Take it Back

       The New Sun

       The Healing School

       Winter

       Bring a Protestant

       Peace and Reconciliation

       Black Daffodil

       Farrell’s Undoing

       Water

       Wildflowers

       The Kiss that Never Was

       Dying Egypt, Dying

       Snow

       References

       Memory Down

       Softer than Love

       Begging for a Fairytale

       The Sign of the Cross

       Spilled

       Days Like People

       No Bounce

       Dead Man’s Hand

       Like an Egg

       The Twin

       On the Wing

       Raw

       The Cave

       Shilling