Storage Space .......................................................................................................... 9
Watching Old Men Playing Tennis ....................................................................... 10
The Consistency of Baby Poo ................................................................................ 11
Toy Cars and Immortality .....................................................................................12
Odds and Evens .......................................................................................................13
The Curse of the Ordinary .....................................................................................14
No-daddy-else ..........................................................................................................15
Exercising Patience ................................................................................................. 16
I Think I May Be Dying ............................................................................................. 17
Bird Watching at the Western Wall ................................................................... 18
The Holy City .............................................................................................................19
They ..............................................................................................................................21
The Golf Mad ............................................................................................................22
Among the Eucalyptus .........................................................................................23
In Passing, I Said to Rikki ......................................................................................24
Picture Window ........................................................................................................25
Bahama Sunset in Soweto (1994) ................................................................... 26
Stars ..........................................................................................................................27
South Africa ........................................................................................................... 28
Letter to Karen (March 22, 1995) ................................................................... 29
A Dog Called Spot ...................................................................................................31
File 13 ..........................................................................................................................32
Howard Davis .......................................................................................................... 34
Concrete Worlds ..................................................................................................... 35
Ode to Writer’s Block ............................................................................................ 36
Two Feet .....................................................................................................................37
Mr. and Mrs. Nostradamus ................................................................................ 38
Lost ............................................................................................................................ 39
Tin Cup-Tin Heart ................................................................................................... 40
Mists ...........................................................................................................................41
A Fear of Ghosts and Distance .........................................................................42
Ode to the Solutions of a Math Problem at
Two o’clock in the Morning ........................................................................... 43
I Wonder .....................................................................................................................44
Caged ......................................................................................................................... 45
Red Dust .................................................................................................................. 46
On Asking for Directions ......................................................................................47
Frayed Nerves ......................................................................................................... 48
The Thought of Her ................................................................................................ 49
Here and Now-Now and Then .............................................................................. 50
An African Picture Postcard ................................................................................51
In Their Eyes .............................................................................................................52
Love and Space ...................................................................................................... 53
The Fishermen’s Sacrifice .................................................................................... 54
Last Words for a Blind Duckling ........................................................................ 55
Love in Pretty Packages ....................................................................................... 56
A Message from the Damned .............................................................................57
On Missing the Dead ............................................................................................ 58
When All Was Done ................................................................................................ 59
So Tired ..................................................................................................................... 59
To Be or Not to Be? .............................................................................................. 59
I Felt the Days ........................................................................................................60
When I Least Expect It .......................................................................................... 61