Anam Cara

Contents

Approachings

Thought-Work

First Words

Nest

Black Music in Conamara

The Wound at the Side of the House

Before the Beginning

The Banshee’s Grotto

Wind Artist

Elemental

The Pleading

The Secret of Thereness

Breakage

Inner Circle

Fluent

The Stillness Above is Listening

Mountain Christening

The Night Underneath

Decorum

Imagined Origins

Encounters:

The Rosary Sonnets

An Paidrín

The Rosary

The Joyful Mysteries

The Annunciation

The Visitation

The Nativity

The Presentation in the Temple

The Finding in the Temple

The Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

The Scourging at the Pillar

The Crowning with Thorns

The Carrying of the Cross

The Crucifixion

The Glorious Mysteries

The Resurrection

The Ascension

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

The Assumption

The Coronation

Distances

Words

Wings

The Transparent Border

The Angel of the Bog

Placenta

Mountain-Looking

Seduced?

At the Edge

Up the Mountain

Prisons of Voice

The Ocean Wind

Outside a Cottage

Breakage

Double Exposure

Elemental

The Night

Anchor

A Burren Prayer

Notes

Index of First Lines

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by John O’Donohue

Copyright

About the Publisher