Reversing entropy: poems

Prologue: Reversing Entropy

Foreword by Paula Huston

MY BRIGHT, PARTICULAR STAR: My Bright, Particular Star

Bird Words

Whisper

Lilies of the Valley

Moving the Dogwood

Scarlet

Just Add water

Breeze

The Dance of the Lichens

Exuberance, Mt. Baker National Forest

Driving Through the Season

Crossing the Cascades

Look Up

Lake Light

The Apricot Tree

Waiting for the Ferry 1

Waiting for the Ferry 2

New Leaf Restaurant

Creek-side

Whale

In the Mist

Gingko Leaves

One Leaf, November

The Star in the Kitchen Window

How Lucky

Saturday Afternoon, Waiting for the Mail

Knitting in the Wild

In a Field

Above Taos Gorge

Universe

WEATHERING: Cicada Night

Fresh

Waiting for Words

How It Happens

Stones

Sudden

Laundry List

Woman in Blue

New Poem

So Much Depends

Sequoia

Weathering

December

THE FALL TO EARTH: Mary and the Angel

The Hope of Glory

Snow

Mary's Sword

A Child's Question

Scant

Jesus Tells His Story

ENERGY & ENTROPY: Energy & Entropy

To Do

Older

Track

Out Walking

Island, Spring 2022

Surprise

Grace

Level

Enlightened

LOVE IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE: Brass Tray

Flight

What to Admire

Primeval

Responses

Heartwood

Love in the Time of Plague

Up Close

Intermission

FINAL BREATH: Remembering Rosalind

In memory of my brother, John Henry Northcote Deck, 1932-2022 (Leaving ; Final Breath ; The Sift of Grief ; On the Death of my Brother ; Aftermath ; The Boats, the Beach ; After the Storm)

Clues for Perception

The Quickening: To Be Sung in Procession to Heaven's Gate

Acknowledgments.