Table of Contents: “…Page -- Thaw ; Transit / Margaret Avison -- Thoughts after Ruskin / Elma Mitchell -- The centaur ; The James Bond movie / May Swenson -- Beach glass ; A procession at Candlemas ; What the light was like / Amy Clampitt -- Country press ; The fever / Rosemary Dobson -- Green revolutions ; Poem / Barbara Guest -- Hospital evening ; In the bistro ; A simple story / Gwen Harwood -- Matins ; Goethe's blues ; Abel's ride / Denise Levertov -- 999 call ; Charlotte, her book ; Contre jour / Elizabeth Bartlett -- In a country museum ; Middle age ; Jane Austen at the window / Patricia Beer -- a poem with capital letters ; My young mother ; El sueño de la razón ; Dispossessions / Jane Cooper -- A difficult adjustment ; the sums / Lauris Edmond -- In the root cellar ; The retrieval system ; The excrement poem / Maxine Kumin -- One flesh ; Fragment for the dark / Elizabeth Jennings -- Want of þ want of ð ; In the heat of the morning / Anne Szumigalski -- Seaman, 1941 / Molly Holden -- Desires ; Charity / Connie Bensley -- Great-grandfather ; Her garden ; Starlight ; Miss Grant / Freda Downie -- Not my best side ; At the ferry ; Resuscitation team ; Father in the railway buffet / U.A. …”