Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

A fore word -- Eve -- And God heard -- Sarah: before Mount Moriah -- Abraham: with laughter -- The ram: caught in the bush -- Isaac -- Esau -- Rachel: at Joseph's birth -- Rachel: birthing Benjamin -- Benjamin's birth -- Leah -- Leah: the unloved -- Jacob: ballade -- Jacob: after Rachel's death -- Pharaoh's cross -- Moses -- Moses: dialogue with God -- Gershom: son of Moses -- Balaam's ass -- Jepthah's daughter -- Jepthah's daughter, 2 -- Naaman: the leper -- David: from Psalm 32 -- David -- David: after Psalm 49 -- Psalm 55:12-14 -- Herman the Ezragite: psalm 88:18 -- Annunciation -- Bearer of love. The Bethlehem explosion -- Young Mary -- Three songs of Mary -- O simplicitas -- O oriens -- O sapientia -- O wise and foolish virgins -- First coming -- After annunciation -- Like every newborn -- The wise men -- One kin's epiphany -- ...and kill the Passover -- Mary: after the baptism -- The preparation of Mary, mother of Joses -- Andrew -- The samaritan woman at the well -- Song of blind Bartimaeus after his healing -- The woman -- When Mary asked -- The high priest's servant -- Andrew: having run away from Jesus in the garden -- Magdalen -- Mary of Magdala -- Temper my intemperance -- Simon of Cyrene -- Barabbas -- Mary speaks -- Salome: at the foot of the cross -- Three days -- Pieta -- Mary: afterwards -- Thomas: after seeing the wounds -- Peter -- A man from Phrygia, on Pentecost -- Barnabas, travelling to Antioch -- Phoebe, perhaps the very first deacon -- Priscilla's response to the letter to the Hebrews -- Mary speaks: from Ephesus -- Ephesus -- Mary Magdalene, remembering -- And Nicolas.