Contents

André Breton You Never Think
My Generation Writing of the News on Paper
This New Thing Adulthood
The Shadow of a Fish
The Climate of War
‘For you and I are helpless’
‘We took each other in the night’
‘On the first morning of the world’
A More Tender Ocean
A Pure Poem
Walking Down the Street in Love
‘A semaphore for seahorses’
‘A man rents two apartments’
‘A cupboard and a wooden soldier’
The Horse and His Man
Your Father’s Death
‘My chief amusement was to lie naked’
Poor Girl
Polite Aside
‘Cream as of the night’
Twenty Things
‘The moon is an emerald’
The Straw Knight’s Fallen Leaves
‘Be lenient with me’
Something Visible
In the Tunnels
Love Song
On the Harmony of the Spheres
Begin
Begin Again
‘Love is a bright form of murder’
Behind the Kindling Silence
It was a Rumour
‘At his arraignment’
Interrogation of a Small White Room
People are Brave
Two Poems for a Lost Summer
‘Speak to me more falsely’
‘How can I explain’
‘The sky darkening purple’
Forgiveness
‘Why do the hearts of the dead’
‘Cathedral sky’
Filial Knowledge
Be Quiet
‘The separation of curtain after curtain’
October When the Sun Sets
‘I was walking’
Comfort
Introduction
Six Pears
Harmonica
Good Night
‘As quick as a camera’
‘What unrolls?’
Normandy
Spain
L’Oiseau Tzigane
Terra Incognita to Say the Way
‘I am no longer ashamed’