Table of Contents:
Introduction; incurables:; Dad at Cerne; A tromp-l'oeil drawn on glass; Low Sunday weeding; Landscape with figures; We call this the day room; Dismal lament; Crophead; Poem for (to) from/by my mother; Paternity; Funny the things you notice; Looking for Floodgate Street; The Daughter Poems; Name tracing; My daughter the deer; One star left; The Depth of Field dilemma and the hooks; dyke:; Dawn by the water; An editorial cleverness; At Walcot; The shoes of the lion; To the vintage show; The Fourth Book of Humours; The Going Poems; Christmas night in the warehouse; Don't do it at Christmas; locus; My flat feels too small; Has the bull gone?; I wonder where he's gone; A hot night at the Fronton; A Tune a Day; Bunking off work; The New York City Poems; Seven ten am; The sky above Columbus; Walking across 57th Street; Poem it's best stays unfinished; Each time has its texture; Views from Hotels part two; Dad taught me Charlie Forrest is an oilstone; What if it rains the whole fortnight?; O Painswick; I expect we bought them with our choirboy wedding shillings; Settling in at Damsel's Farm; The Absentminded Man and the angel ...; Being here; Coming from a country without cabbages; The Heartland Poems; Healing with more than cobwebs and honey; Anticipating Heartlands; The smartie hat; A morning at A&E; A&E signs; A&E extras; Op 34 Labyrinth Test; In case of fire; 6.30 pre-op; Doing their best; denudes; My Dear Writing ...; The Fish Poems; Looking at the tank in the morning dark; Converses with catfish about mirrors; Macropodus opercularis Sunday morning with Gerald Stern; Welding queen; If I rang you (how can I ring you?) you'd be out; Haiku waitress; The Leavings Poems; I want to give you a table; From the string drawer I enter the universe; I would give you; On my walk; The burned girl; Returning from the locked church; Interesting weather you have here inland; Living wallpaper; Projections; Elegant doggerel; Animals at Anna's; Is that it, then?; and how; 'They're mine' saith the Lord; A whole new world; How will you get on, Lord?; Why are there colours?; The Miranda's Honda Poems; Sorcerer's Honda; The bruja Honda pretext; The proper employment for a poet is saving his own life; What his Sunday morning coldness means; Hints for travellers; God may well be a bird; The magic levels; sula, gunwom a n; 1 Another kind of mirror; 2 Roleplayer; 3 On the isthmus; 4 The assassin addresses her silver child; 5 Autobiography; 6 Going to work; 7 A logical conclusion; 8 Sula dreams of Death, her master; 9 Downey's suit is too tight; 10 The assumption of Sula Mackay Bassana; 11 The prayer on Downey's amulet; 12 Let them become horses of heaven; indices; Extracts from feather lists 1 & 2; Mr Bird, Flying Coat Maker; The Palaeography Poems; The Three Men are in Love ...; A Hurricane Exhumes the Body ...; War at Sea; The Shop Selling Statuettes and Gowns; For Gerald Stern; Epitome; The Being Northeuropean Poems; From his panelled room; An index to the biographical fragment ...; The Identification of Parts poems; An index to the driftwood project; Index