Quare Tristis Es Of all such earthy melt

Introit Beginning Work Now let me conjure Introibo

Kyrie Green hearts, and stalker October end Kyrie Eleison After a quarrel

Paternoster Forever Mutely Drown

Lavabo Survivor in Orchard The plot where the garden lived Family Tree Lavabo inter Innocentes

Memento Tobia's prayer Or Mud like me Memento Famulorum

Sanctus To all their blackened ears

Preface Is live, and uncurls Growing In personis proprietas Burning bush

Confiteor And began with goodbye Jingle Cogitatione, Verbo, et Opere Midwork Between sleep and daylight

Epistle A gift of suns

Offertory Fifty Blood in the leaf In the eye of my father Pod Ne Cadant in Obscurum

Dies Irae December 28th Lacrimosa Dies Illa Sunset I saw by To my survivors

Agnus Dei The green is back

Credo The Wit flowing under the world April fool Of rag and spit and eye Apology for no poems In Unum Deum

Gloria Lullaby An exaltation of larks Ending work Et in Terra Pax

Ite, Missa Est Is, Now

This is written in remembrance of Gibson's deceased parents and in honor of their lives. In reflecting on them he in turn makes it a tribute to parenthood and a dedication to his own children. Gibson's language is striking in its poignancy. Despite the title, this is not a religious work, but a work of love from a child to parent and from the child-become-parent to his own children. Interspersed between the reminiscences of his parents and his childhood, Gibson inserts achingly beautiful epistles to his children for their guidance about life and parenting.