A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full. Poet Dennis Cooley's eloquent words merge with photographer/composer Michael Matthews' decadent abstract photographs. These two celebrated artists draw connections and parallels to each other's masterful art forms, tying the two together seamlessly. The antecedent and subsequent illuminate the night sky with their dance; the shadows and the light taking turns at showing us the way through the darkness.

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Picturing Words, Wording Pictures
• Dedication
• night lights
• our lady of the shadows
• gas lantern
• phases
• midnight blue
• night flight
• taking off
• july a fever
• their eyes stinging with salt
• anemones
• poppy
• a speaking
• trawlers
• snow clearing
• needle work
• wonders
• burnout
• figures 1
• remember
• zodiac
• the very sun
• the first day
• milky way
• undertaking
• far shores
• blue chamber
• strange ms. found in a bottle
• dog in snow
• the tides
• glass
• the sun plunges
• separation
• ice age
• piscene
• the dance
• streets at night
• it goes too fast
• seamstress
• east of eden
• bone house
• to make the stone
• gift
• seeing ghosts
• the whale captain’s wife
• fish in dark waters
• supplements
• orchard
• night
• witching
• breathing
• it is not
• aspens
• a friend in london
• to shine in the dark
• the hot wind from inside
• high opera
• silence
• reading the sign
• night horses
• gibbous moon
• the colour of your dreams
• excerpt
• heart when you play it
• their sudden screams
• ghosts
• summonings
• prairie thunderstom
• february
• comfort
• at the window
• crow creates the earth
• particles
• living without you
• iris
• remember
• chimera
• riding into sunset
• but then
• a wing, awing
• recovery
• we return
• Credits / Permissions
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors