| After Holderlin | p. 1 |
| The moment of waking | p. 3 |
| The city, the tree | p. 3 |
| The visit | p. 4 |
| Kabul | p. 5 |
| Rescue | p. 5 |
| Whitey | p. 6 |
| The plane | p. 6 |
| The non-commercial traveller | p. 7 |
| Mary Jane | p. 8 |
| Machine | p. 8 |
| Paint | p. 9 |
| Balance | p. 10 |
| Bestiary | p. 10 |
| Ward five | p. 10 |
| On the track of the attainable | p. 11 |
| Red movie | p. 12 |
| The Guadalcanal Motel | p. 26 |
| Poem ending with a line by Rimbaud | p. 27 |
| Compromise | p. 27 |
| The alphabet murders | p. 29 |
| Starlight | p. 50 |
| The bus | p. 50 |
| The Chicago Manual of Style | p. 51 |
| Art | p. 51 |
| Artefact | p. 52 |
| The moated grange | p. 52 |
| Ballistics | p. 53 |
| I know a man who lives in the dark | p. 53 |
| The doll | p. 54 |
| The spy | p. 54 |
| Position : poet | p. 55 |
| The painting of the whole sky | p. 55 |
| The blues | p. 56 |
| 1968 | p. 56 |
| By the pool | p. 57 |
| At the laundromat | p. 57 |
| Ode to Col Joye | p. 58 |
| The un-American women | p. 64 |
| The revolutionaries | p. 65 |
| Leavis at the London Hotel | p. 66 |
| Sartre at surfers' paradise | p. 67 |
| Foucault at the Forest Lodge Hotel | p. 68 |
| Enzensberger at 'Exiles' bookshop | p. 69 |
| The wind | p. 70 |
| The germ | p. 71 |
| The great artist reconsiders the homeric simile | p. 72 |
| A Jackeroo in Kensington | p. 73 |
| Backyard | p. 74 |
| Country Veranda | p. 75 |
| North light | p. 76 |
| Widower | p. 77 |
| Debbie & Co | p. 78 |
| Voodoo | p. 80 |
| Fine arts | p. 81 |
| The creature from the black lagoon | p. 82 |
| High school confidential | p. 83 |
| Stratocruiser | p. 84 |
| Laminex | p. 85 |
| Lufthansa | p. 86 |
| On looking into the American anthology | p. 87 |
| Shadow detail | p. 88 |
| Parallel lines | p. 90 |
| Having completed my fortieth year | p. 92 |
| Boarding school | p. 95 |
| Papyrus | p. 96 |
| After the dance | p. 97 |
| Haberdashery | p. 98 |
| Poolside | p. 99 |
| At the Newcastle Hotel | p. 99 |
| Affairs of the heart | p. 100 |
| Lullaby | p. 101 |
| Dirty weekend | p. 101 |
| La Pulqueria | p. 102 |
| Breathless | p. 104 |
| Journey | p. 127 |
| At the Florida | p. 129 |
| God on a bicycle | p. 131 |
| Dark harvest | p. 132 |
| Ariadne on Lesbos | p. 136 |
| Days in the capital | p. 139 |
| A marriage | p. 139 |
| Falling | p. 140 |
| Anyone home? | p. 142 |
| The Romans | p. 145 |
| Storm over Sydney | p. 146 |
| Opus Dei | p. 148 |
| North Woods | p. 152 |
| Con's cafe | p. 155 |
| At Naxos | p. 156 |
| Two views of Lake Placid | p. 157 |
| Snap | p. 158 |
| Old Europe | p. 159 |
| Box contaminant | p. 160 |
| A plume of ash | p. 161 |
| Chicken shack | p. 162 |
| Cable chimp | p. 163 |
| Bells under water | p. 164 |
| Aurora | p. 165 |
| The duck abandons Hollywood | p. 166 |
| Neuromancing Miss Stein | p. 167 |
| The howling twins | p. 173 |
| Blackout | p. 181 |
| Black leather | p. 186 |
| Gallery | p. 188 |
| Halogen | p. 190 |
| Locket | p. 192 |
| Miss Proust | p. 194 |
| My story | p. 196 |
| Off radar | p. 198 |
| On the road | p. 200 |
| Package tour | p. 202 |
| Per Ardua ad Astra | p. 204 |
| South farm | p. 206 |
| Under the trees | p. 208 |
| Lavender ink | p. 210 |
| After Laforgue | p. 211 |
| Brussels | p. 212 |
| Address to the reader | p. 213 |
| After Rilke | p. 214 |
| Invitation to America | p. 217 |
| On La Cienega | p. 218 |
| Festival | p. 219 |
| Night | p. 221 |
| Harry's bar | p. 222 |
| What the Cyclops said | p. 223 |
| Where the boys are | p. 223 |
| Notes from the late Tang | p. 224 |
| The twilight guest | p. 226 |
| Paid Meridian | p. 227 |
| The green buick | p. 228 |
| Moonshine Sonata | p. 230 |
| Trastevere | p. 230 |
| Radium | p. 234 |
| In praise of sandstone | p. 236 |
| Chinese poem, after Mark Ford | p. 239 |
| Christopher Brennan | p. 240 |
| Epitaphs | p. 241 |
| See Rover Reach | p. 243 |
| Grover leach | p. 244 |
| Elegy i.m. M.J. | p. 246 |
| The beach | p. 247 |
| Five modern myths | p. 255 |
| Three poems about Kenneth Koch | p. 256 |
| Black sugar | p. 258 |
| The new season's patterns | p. 259 |
| Like advertising | p. 261 |
| Rimbaud in Sydney | p. 262 |
| The waiting room | p. 263 |
| Amulet | p. 264 |
| The seasons - spring | p. 265 |
| The seasons - summer | p. 266 |
| The seasons - autumn | p. 267 |
| The seasons - winter | p. 268 |
| Small animal poem | p. 269 |
| The white hole paradox | p. 270 |
| Two Haikus | p. 271 |
| Two short poems, after Li Po | p. 271 |
| Two poems for Mr. Stevens | p. 272 |
| What mortal end | p. 273 |
| Her shy banjo | p. 274 |
| Fin de Siecle | p. 275 |
| An American in Paris | p. 276 |
| Benzedrine | p. 277 |
| The master of the black stones | p. 278 |
| Flying high | p. 279 |
| Pussy willow | p. 281 |
| Smaller women | p. 283 |
| Transatlantic | p. 284 |
| Under Tuscan skies | p. 286 |
| Year dot | p. 289 |
| The urn of loneliness | p. 290 |
| At the Tomb of Napoleon | p. 293 |
| Bats | p. 293 |
| Care and feeding of a small poem | p. 294 |
| Manikin de Vin | p. 294 |
| On a noted vista | p. 295 |
| A poet in the reading room | p. 296 |
| Stage door | p. 297 |
| Thistles | p. 298 |
| Whisper | p. 298 |
| Anguish | p. 300 |
| Bottom of the harbour | p. 300 |
| Deluge | p. 301 |
| Departure | p. 301 |
| Horticulture | p. 302 |
| Lives | p. 302 |
| Marinara | p. 303 |
| Metro | p. 304 |
| Movements | p. 304 |
| Parade | p. 305 |
| Pronto | p. 305 |
| Royalties | p. 306 |
| Scenes | p. 307 |
| Shames | p. 308 |
| Sorehead | p. 308 |
| Story | p. 309 |
| Subcontinent nocturne | p. 309 |
| Villas | p. 310 |
| Shadow of a doubt | p. 312 |
| North by northwest | p. 313 |
| Dark passage | p. 314 |
| Girl in water | p. 315 |
| Black and white | p. 317 |
| The popular mysteries | p. 319 |
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