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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Epigraph
ARGUMENT
PROLOGUE
Binoculars
In his hardening lenses
Hagen is striding
A mile away
Pauline Hagen
Again
Mrs Westlake
The scherzo
But still the enraged
In Estridge’s lens
Lumb
The Bridge Inn bar
Doctor Westlake
Mrs Holroyd
Garten
Maud
Behind the bar
Mrs Garten
Estridge’s younger daughter Jennifer
Dr Westlake
Lumb
Westlake’s grey Daimler
Betty
Garten
Felicity
Maud
Mrs Davies
The Alsatian
Felicity
Lumb
Garten
Lumb
Garten
Lumb’s eyes
Garten
Evans
Maud
Garten
Maud
Felicity
The Cathedral
Felicity
Holroyd
Estridge
Estridge and Evans
Garten
Women
Maud
Lumb
Maud
In the bar at the Bridge Inn
Lumb
Estridge
Maud
The one glance
Easy and strong
EPILOGUE
What will you make of half a man
I hear your congregations at their rapture
Who are you?
At the top of my soul
The lark sizzles in my ear
I watched a wise beetle
In a world where all is temporary
Collision with the earth has finally come –
Trying to be a leaf
I heard the screech, sudden –
Once I said lightly
Music, that eats people
The rain comes again
This is the maneater’s skull
I see the oak’s bride in the oak’s grasp
She rides the earth
The huntsmen, on top of their swaying horse-towers
A primrose petal’s edge
Waving goodbye, from your banked hospital bed
I said goodbye to earth
The swallow – rebuilding –
The night wind, muscled with rain
The viper fell from the sun
A doctor extracted
The coffin, spurred by its screws
The grass-blade is not without
Churches topple
I know well
The sun, like a cold kiss in the street –
Sometimes it comes, a gloomy flap of lightning
Having first given away pleasure –
Looking for her form
A man hangs on
When the still-soft eyelid sank again
The sea grieves all night long
Hearing your moan echo, I chill. I shiver
Faces lift out of the earth
I skin the skin
What steel was it the river poured
Calves harshly parted from their mamas
A bang – a burning –
The dead man lies, marching here and there
Every day the world gets simply
Your tree – your oak
Glare out of just crumpled grass –
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