CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Epigraph
  3. From Our House is Full of Fog (1987)
  4. Runner Girl
  5. Garden in a Metropolis
  6. From waitress at an old restaurant (1993)
  7. The White Doves
  8. event
  9. lover
  10. domestic peace
  11. Three Poetesses
  12. on a hot day
  13. Lover X:
  14. waitress in fall
  15. dream
  16. regards
  17. Lover X:
  18. summer’s day
  19. unchained
  20. the night calls
  21. waitress at an old restaurant
  22. From Close Your Eyes and Think of Me (1998)
  23. Fire
  24. Address
  25. The Watermelon and Me
  26. Stove
  27. Morning Gift
  28. Wish
  29. Wool Heart
  30. The Fatalistic Poem
  31. Protein
  32. Dessert
  33. Lemon Breast
  34. Tradition
  35. Wishes Come True in Poetry
  36. War and Peace
  37. Neglected Knives
  38. Gift
  39. Rain Days
  40. One Day
  41. Love and You
  42. Legs
  43. Many Pairs of Eyes
  44. Mood
  45. From Special Day (2000)
  46. Poem About Good Girls
  47. lain under trees
  48. mirror
  49. Green Grass
  50. letter
  51. headless morning
  52. the stage by the rainbow
  53. another stage by the rainbow
  54. five centimetres
  55. scissors
  56. From Christmas Poems (2006)
  57. Christmas Snow
  58. Nightpoem of the Washer-up
  59. Applemilk
  60. Quatrain
  61. Snowfall (I)
  62. Verse
  63. Christmas Psalm
  64. From See Your Beauty (2008)
  65. Guidance
  66. Butterfly on a Canvas
  67. autumnal soup
  68. Mountain Hike on a Summer’s Day
  69. heyday
  70. we drink coffee at a kitchen table
  71. ode
  72. a married couple drink coffee at the kitchen table
  73. sunday poem
  74. Ingólfstorg – Street Made of Paper
  75. breast-feeding by a coffin
  76. From spiders in shop windows (2017)
  77. keepsake
  78. here with us ¶ though no one / nothing belongs to us
  79. verse
  80. tug of war as I sleep in a moonsand
  81. advert
  82. the colours in my doll’s house
  83. sequel
  84. aroma
  85. laughter
  86. Translator’s Afterword
  87. Notes & Acknowledgements
  88. Copyright