Contents

Title

The Author

The Translator

The Tower at the Edge of the World

In the Days when the Earth was not yet Round but had a Beginning and an End

The Evening Horn

The Tap

Smoke

The Words

God’s Floor

The Summer Girls

Time Flies

The Earth Girl Lonela

Debes, the Lighthouse Keeper

The Sledge Ride

New Year

It’s Late in the Year and Late in the Day and Late in Life.

Music from the Sea

Deaf Jane

Stare-Eyes

If –

Sailing at Dawn

The Green Storehouse

Fortune

The Wise Virgins

Fina the Hut

The Old Poet

Howler Hans

The Sorrows of Little Brother

Stare-Eyes in the Snow

Black Christmas

The Almanac

Uncle Harry

The Poppies

The Organ Grinder

Grey, Windy Winter’s Day with no Sun or Shade.

Hannibal

The Skull

The Snilk

Gale

The Feckless Idiots

The Little Singer

A Bright, Frosty Evening at New Year 1974 and I

The Life Bridge

Merrit

The Foal Girl

The Cup Woman

Ekka in the Well House

The Big Sluggish Beast

The Churchyard

The Kiss

The Willow Grove

The Calf

The Concert

When, Last Night, I, Amaldus the Aged, put out my Writing Lamp at about Two O’Clock

The Lunar Eclipse

The Death of Platen

Cadenza in the Willow Grove

Embarkation in Cloudy Weather

The Steam Engine

Exile

The Banshee

Catastrophe

Fate

Diamonds in the Dark

The Wise Man in the Tower

The Dream of the Magnetic North Pole

The Dream of the Woman Suspended between Heaven and Earth

The Dream of the House of Weeping

Lambert the Watchmaker

Everyday Reality

Today, the 11th of February 1974, I am Sitting by an Open Window in my Cabin, looking

Vesta

The Path of Sin

Young Pain

The Explosion

The Generous Dark

Light

Heavy Snowfall and Compact Darkness, Indeed so Intense that from the Window in my Tower I

Epilogue

Copyright