by Leena Krohn e§2

Title Page e§3

The meadow and the honey-pattern - The first letter e§7

The hum of the wheel - The second letter e§46

Shimmer - The third letter e§58

Their mother's tears - The fourth letter e§67

The burden - The fifth letter e§97

The seventeenth spring - The sixth letter e§124

Burning on the mountain - The seventh letter e§135

Their innumerable dwellings - The eighth letter e§159

Like burying beetles - The ninth letter e§166

The charioteer - The tenth letter e§196

Tracks in the dust - The eleventh letter e§201

The day of the great mogul - The twelfth letter e§235

Proof copy - The thirteenth letter e§256

Sand - The fourteenth letter e§265

White noise - The fifteenth letter e§289

The Mimic - The sixteenth letter e§310

The great window - The seventeenth letter e§340

The work of the surveyor - The eighteenth letter e§349

The bystander - The nineteenth letter e§370

King Milinda's question - The twentieth letter e§401

Not enough - The twenty-first letter e§413

Dayma - The twenty-second letter e§423

The Dangler - The twenty-third letter e§474

The Guardian of the Oddfellows - The twenty-fourth letter e§481

The cloaked moth - The twenty-fifth letter e§519

The gate of evening - The twenty-sixth letter e§525

The umbellifers - The twenty-seventh letter e§541

Date as postmark - The twenty-eighth letter e§556

Passing bells - The twenty-ninth letter e§576

The pupal cell of my home - The thirtieth letter e§602

About the Author e§610