Here green-leafed memories invade the mind;

Here our young profuse acts luxuriate;

And then leaf-fallen times can be defined;

And then the old, snow-fallen thoughts await.

These poems explore our ages by the season:

Child's adventure in untidy garden

With its ancient, stooped gardener; young poet

Begging in Seattle; celebrations

Of birth, birthdays and of deaths; old Ibsens,

Restless in their solace; backyard elegy;

And more beside, all etched in shifting verse.