AUTUMN'S GATE The Hallows 11 Autumn's Gate 12 The Alts Visit 14 To Wait With a Person Dying 15 My Mother's Burial 18 The Turn of the Tide 23 I'll Be Right Back 26 THE TWO COUNTRIES For William Stafford 29 The Quarrel 31 The Two Countries 33 Other Powers 36 Teachers at Risk 38 Post-Secondary Education 40 The Ferryman 42 Sorry My Paper Is Late, But 45 Semester's End 46 The Museum 48 Useless 50 Body Map 53 War on a Round Planet 56 Casualties 58 It Was My Country 60 THE CLOWN The Death of the Clown 65 The Burial of the Clown 67 The Monument to the Clown 69 The Resurrection of the Clown 71 The Childhood of the Clown The Dreams of the Clown 74 The Revenge of the Clown 75 FROM A DARK SHORE In a House of Women 79 A Sad Day 81 Harbinger 83 When We Parted 84 The Road's Side 86 Anthem: Under the Horned Moon 89 A Self 90 "The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers" 92 In the Birth Canal 93 The Dark Ones 96 Where Mountain Water 98 Sophia 101 La Belle Dame Sans Coeur 104 THE BALD MAN The Bald Man 109 Insertion 111 The Nipple 114 The Big 0 116 Excavation 118 Grandfather and Grandmother 120 The Nest 122 Life With Dick 124 BILLY: A PASTORAL The Valley by Night 129 Billy's Peccadillos 130 Reverend Billy 131 Billy on Industrial Progress 132 Billy and Housing 134 Billy on the Valley 135 Billy and Women 136 Intrusion 137 Billy Employed 142 THE CALL The Call 147 Sky Gravity 150 Poetry Overdose 152 The Genius 154 The Colours of the Forest 155.