CONTENTS

When Someone Goes Away Everything That’s Been Done Comes Back

Shadows Pass Us By

The Hands of the Clock

Many Things Happened

What We Have Said Haunts Us

When Time Ceases

The Shadow of the World Passes Over My Heart

Things We Want to Touch

Perfection Is Born

We Reveal the Times

Fast Is the Century

I Want Only That

Thoughts on the Weather

Everything Is a Caress

What Is to Be Done?

Usual Summer Nightfall

Towns That Don’t Belong to Us

From Every Scar on My Body

Before We Were Born

Eras of Longing

Outside of Time

Days When One Ought to Be Alone

A Way of Existing

An Involuntary Conquest of Space

The One Who Writes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Translators