Water Quality

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Copyright 5
• Contents 8
• Fork Lake 12
• Water Quality 14
• The Lily Pullers 16
• In the Round 17
• Recipe for Invasive Species 18
• Old Gregory 20
• Along Came a Spider 21
• Fork and Spoon Lake 23
• Dereliction, 1908 25
• Spill 26
• World War 27
• Live Trap 28
• Border Control 29
• Second Lake Report 30
• Shift 31
• I Sip a Glass of Wine by the Lake 32
• Lake Ghazal 33
• Wedding 34
• Fragrant Harbour 36
• Sampan, 1962 38
• After Fifty Years, Return to Hong Kong 40
• Man o’ War, 1963 42
• Diamond-Water Paradox 43
• At Tai O Village, 2017 44
• Invisible Stitching 46
• Lessons in Diplomacy, 1965 47
• Public Records Office, Diagnostic Survey, 1960s 49
• Expats, 1960s 51
• Master and Man 53
• Like a Moth to a Flame 58
• Hike on Lantau Island, 1968 60
• Gold Dinner Bell 62
• Eight Imitations of the Poet Wang Wei 63
• Gene Pool 68
• Pools 70
• Crossword 71
• Burnt Pot, Riverbank, Indifferent Sky 73
• I Pay a Man to Wash the Windows 76
• How We Name Things from Our Own Seat in the Chevy 77
• On Taming Foxes 78
• Pierced 79
• Slant Rhyme for Orchid 80
• Icarus’s Mother 81
• Granddaughter in Another City 82
• Backyard 83
• Baby in the Bathwater 85
• Changing 87
• On Fridays with You, This Game 88
• Recipe with Eggs 89
• First Room 90
• What Water Wants 92
• Eve River Estuary 94
• With No Sweet Water / 水调歌头∙难溯甘泉 96
• Four Ws 99
• Light Showers, Wi-Fi 101
• Argument with Captain Vancouver over the Naming of Desolation Sound 102
• Rogue 106
• Pachina Bay, ؛Anaqtl’a 108
• Nameless Lake 110
• Rewilding 111
• Automatic Door 112
• Selling Soffio 113
• Once We Were Animalcules 114
• Lament of a Hypocrite Gardener 118
• Pipe Dreams 120
• The Last Day of the Paris Climate Change Conference, I go to a Beach Spa 121
• What Does Water Want? 122
• The Disturbed Land 124
• Notes and Acknowledgments 126