Includes bibliographical references.

I : Abrupt at dawn- Undertow- Ice apples- Equinox- The guises of the mind- Mind outside- Don't sleep yet- Mind undressed- The story I need- Water music- Before they plowed the orchard under- Spacious- Beautiful / This morning, no myth felt lacking- Night opens the foothills- Password- II : Afainst diffuse awareness- Mind without instruments in low visibility- Vespers, 1961- Almost listening...- By night, Penelope- Amnesia- Mind paces the edge of a flat world- Moon, shrinking- Cloud- Zone by zone- Conviction- History of Art in the twenty-first century- Contract- Among the mysteries- Equatorial- And my life wandered on- Mind returns to find itself absent- III : Mind trades shadows with the clouds- Patient- At the end of daylight savings- Hole in the mind filling with the present- A visible life- MInd out of season- The seasons only borrow us- Progress on the subject of immensity- Mind gives up an attempt to describe the scent of new paper- Nova that suddenly- Without steel or fire- Mudra- Two- Still, Small- Consider desire

"Leslie Ullman's deeply meditative poems reflect an individual's exploration of herself and her relationship to the natural world and other people. The Southwest is the setting of her inquiry, and her work is grounded in the rhythms of the natural world. The poems have a quiet intensity about them that engages the reader"--Provided by publisher.