Dear ghosts, : poems / by Tess Gallagher.

My unopened life -- Not a sparrow -- Sah Sin -- A stroke of sky -- Sayonara, baby -- The dogs of Bucharest -- Choices -- Irish weather -- Brushing fate -- After looking at property in a busy Irish town -- Sugarcane -- Knives in the borrowed house -- I have never wanted to march -- Weather report -- Eternal -- The women of Auschwitz -- Lady Betty -- Offering -- Little match box -- Fire starter -- Lie down with the lamb -- What the new day is for -- Heart-mirror -- Orange sutra -- You are like that, -- Apparition -- Unspoken -- The rooster crows -- Black beauty -- Dream doughnuts -- Urgent story -- Moon's rainbow body -- Dear ghosts, -- Emanation of the red child -- Cairo moon -- Across the border -- She wipes out time -- The violence of unseen forms -- Behave -- Oil spot -- Cultivation -- In lilac-light -- Water walking -- I asked that a prayer -- Surgeon -- The red devil -- Sky house -- Buddha alcove -- Bull's eye -- Remains -- With Setouchi-san in Kyoto -- Walking meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh -- Sixteenth anniversary -- Comeback -- Death's ink.