CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Acknowledgements
4.  
5. I ■ THE HUMAN HEART IS CURVED LIKE A ROAD
6. Pow
7. Flowers, Love etc
8. Other Clouds
9. Wasp
10. Alabaster Baby
11. A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages
12. II ■ MY SKIN IS
13. Sweetheart, come
14. Windows
15. Over/wintering
16. The woman in the sun, a letter
17. A Guide to Love in Icelandic
18. Kintsugi
19. III ■ LICKING THE FLAVOUR
20. The boy
21. Django Fontina
22. Hello, Little Bird
23. Ergonomics
24. Junk Mail
25. immortelle
26. IV ■ WHEN A DOG GOES TO HEAVEN THE STARS ARE GREEN
27. All the Sad Movies
28. Baba Ghanoush
29. The Pet Cemetery
30. Dear Stegosaurus
31. Pepo
32. The Year I Was Born: the day by day chronicle of events in the year of your birth
33. V ■ SOME PEOPLE ARE SAID TO BE SLEEPLESS
34. My grandfather considers his life in three stages
35. Shifting
36. Phonograph
37. Casida of the Dead Sun
38. The Glass Boat
39. Hungry
40. VI ■ WITH PERFECTLY SYMMETRICAL FACE
41. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
42. On serendipity
43. Poor Sasquatch
44. Exemplifying Grace
45. Character Development of the Lovers
46. A Most Satisfactory Dreamlife
47. VII ■ I AM CARGO
48. Soup Sister
49. ____ is transported on a ship from Y to Z
50. how the earth increases
51. Estrapade
52. Poem in which the girl has no door on her mouth
53. A Woman’s Bones Are Purely Ornamental
54.  
55. NOTES
56. About the Author
57. Copyright