Contents

First Scratches No Blood Eye Down (selected) 1977

The Angels Are Nowhere
Sun Whisper
The Steal
"Four standing behind the six"
Brought Home
Store Birds
King Irving
The Moon Talks
Rubric
Simple Truth
Suite: Marianne

lovecrushed 1978

Part 1
"Angel"
Dangerous Night
Valley of the Kings
Sky-writing
The Last Battle
Beware of the Hunter
The Music-lesson that Saved Lives

Part 2
"Lucky"
Deplorable Word
I Want That Dog
The Two Paths
Unclaimed
The Making
To Fancy

Part 3
"Sweetheart"
"Dear"
A Burden
Romance
Again at Last
Men Say They Know
Fall

The Imperfect is the Tense of Fascination 1985

More re: Memoranda
Again From the Window
"me a flag to be the wind to"
"the tree and the bird"
The imperfect is the tense of fascination
A View to Wed
Heroic Strain
"stretch the paper around the word"
Marlene
The Imperfect is the Tense of Fascination

the home planet and other spheres 1992

Harbour Mystery Suite

Walk to the Next Town 1994

Several 1995-96

Get
Holding the Angel of Time
The Kitchen Cupboard
A Balcony Seat
More Robusta
the remaining flowers
I Lose the Gloves My Mother Knits

Occasional 1988 - 1996

Naming
Blake's Dance is Crazy Again
"the hoop clear up in some sky"
Holding the Breath in Saying
Caution in Sight
walk on by

Birth
Snake Island Late 1993
Mountains to Peak in the Cool Time of Jazz

Death
To Sail with You in Time
At the Edge of the World
For Hav
I See Your Life Come Shining

Marriage
strange how all beauty strikes the heart
Holding Out

Blues 1996

Blues for Shannon
Shake
Sugar Plum
Crazy
The Shape of Poetry to Come

Prose 1977 - 1997

White Shalwars
Span
A Cloud in the Light
The Radio
The Shopkeeper Prefers...
The Crossing
Diorama
The Young Man and the Dog

Performance

Curfew
The Story
from Hairpiece:
Sweet Daddy Siki
Spirit Wrestlers