Planting the Olives and Other Essential Acts

Contents: Here is a story from Greece --Digging: comparing notes with Seamus --Snap! --Not the same William Carlos --Learning to live outdoors --Suite for St. Francvis or Aesop --Transaction for shifting riches --Cut flowers --Messenger knocking at your door --Where is the insurrection? --Not the t.v. news --Nocturne for another insomniac philosopher --Taurus and the 'thought-fox' --Days when the sun is lazy --'Rites of spring' --Aficionado fancier --Jim the activist is dying --Even the fall of one sparrow --Knowing unknowing --There's much more going on here --An echo falling from high rafters --Walking in an earthquake zone --Poems on the vine '01 --Raffle tickets to win a balloon ride? --Postmarks from a far place --And the season of the sun is a death thing --Post-modern P.C. poem --Maybe a poem for William Carlos --The elegant Chinese bowl --Entering the earth --Essential acts --Night train --Staying put --Highway notes --Out past Pakawau --Movement of water and islands --Ka tangi kahikatea --It is still the same sky --When did you know you were at home here?