1. A woman's tongue : what tongue to use -- What she thinks she sees -- River tongues -- A little helper -- At the side altars -- A story she wraps around herself -- And the dead shall speak -- Birches -- Tongues of women/tongues of angels -- Shore drift -- The space between -- Northern women -- How to do the ropes course -- To the wild -- On the Celtic fringe -- A medieval herbal-- What is a place but a story -- Reading -- A stone womb at Solstice -- 2. I cannot live in my own land : as if the solstice in Kilarney -- Graffiti on the pier -- Crocheting -- Flesh and wood -- A boat called Coffin Ship -- The ancient order of Hibernians -- Reading the river -- No straight lines -- Whose hands are these -- Choose men, father -- Without her, nothing -- Boatyard, late October -- Storyteller -- 3. Haunted by the throbbing and the way it shapes time -- 4. New homes, new places to die : beneath me, behind me -- Sing -- Her hoof, her black muzzle -- Paper landscape -- Ceremony of water -- That and not -- Letter from the middle -- Her winter heart -- Going in -- Advent -- Neither bones nor wings -- Camouflage -- Eye cantos -- Symbiosis -- At the Blues Saloon -- Finding the jungfrau -- What can a woman take -- Melody for a long marriage -- Naming them -- Moorings -- After my father's death -- Tall birds stalking -- Red bird in winter.