The Hidden Room
To Begin Before I Was Born
Emergence 15
The Crow 16
The Mole 16
Ecce Homo 17
The Clock of Your Pulse 19
Desiring Only 20
The Understatement 21
Remember the Wood 22
Winter Afternoon 23
Death 25
For G.E.R. 25
As on a Dark Charger 26
Night Garden
Journey 29
Round Trip 30
From Uncertain Ground 36
Personal Landscape 38
Magnetic North 39
Images of Angels 41
Christmas Eve ... 44
Earthquake 45
Arras 46
Photos of a Salt Mine 48
The Snowman 50
Mystics Like Miners 52
Stories of Snow 53
The Age of Ice 55
This Cold Man 59
This Is Another Spring 60
Elegy 62
The Leaning Tower of Self
If It Were You 65
The Sleeper 68
Alice 69
Paranoid 71
Portrait of Marina 72
Sailor 74
Only Child 75
Snapshot 77
Neurotic 78
Schizophrenic 79
Outcasts 80
Foreigner 81
Freak 82
Man with One Small Hand 84
Isolationist 85
The Sick 86
Probationer 88
Element 90
Sleeper 91
Nightmare 92
Subjective Eye 93
The Dreamer 94
Generation
Landlady 97
Bed-Sitting Room 99
Offices 100
Prediction without Crystal 101
The Stenographers 102
Typists 103
Shipbuilding Office 104
The Petition 105
Presentation 107
Summer Resort 108
The Inarticulate 109
Panorama 110
Bank Strike 111
Squatters 112
The Permanent Tourists 113
Average 114
Quarrel 115
Election Day 116
Prophecy 118
No Flowers 119
Knitters 120
The Sentimental Surgeon 122
Generation 125
Cullen 127
Forgive Us 130
The Event 131
Puppets 132
Waking 134
Paradox 135
Migration 136
Draughtsman 137
Some There Are Fearless 138
Italian Prisoner of War 139
Old Man 140
Unable to Hate or Love 141
Melanie's Nite-Book
Melanie's Nite-Book 145
Evening Dance of the Grey Flies
Finches Feeding 158
The Flower Bed 159
Short Spring Poem ... 161
Out Here: Flowering 162
Domestic Poem ... 163
Conchita Knows Who Who Is 164
Cullen Revisited 165
For Mstislav Rostropovich ... 167
Motel Pool 169
Stefan 170
Ecology 171
Phone Call from Mexico 173
Custodian 177
Fly: On Webs 178
About Death 179
A Grave Illness 180
Ours 181
Voyager 183
Evening Dance of the Grey Flies 185
Unless the Eye Catch Fire 187
The Selves 209
The Filled Pen 210
Snowshoes 211
Albino Pheasants ... 213
The Maze 215
The First Part 216
Full Moon 220
Dwelling Place 221
Difficult 222
The Tethers 223
The Disguises 225
After Donne 225
Song ... Much of It Borrowed 226
Star-Gazer 226
Chinese Boxes 227
At Sea 228
Spinning 229
Three Gold Fish 230
The Yellow People ... 231
Index of First Lines 235