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title: Table of contents
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#. ["About the author (not pictured)"](about-the-author.html)
#. ["About the author"](about_author.html)
#. ["AMBER alert"](amber-alert.html)
#. ["And"](and.html)
#. ["The angel to Abraham"](angeltoabraham.html)
#. ["On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site"](apollo11.html)
#. ["Art"](art.html)
#. ["Axe"](axe.html)
#. ["The big dipper"](big-dipper.html)
#. ["The boar"](boar.html)
#. ["Boy on the bus"](boy_bus.html)
#. ["Building"](building.html)
#. ["Call me aural pleasure"](call-me-aural-pleasure.html)
#. ["Cereal"](cereal.html)
#. ["Cold wind"](cold-wind.html)
#. ["Instrumented: a collage"](collage-instrument.html)
#. ["Creation myth"](creation-myth.html)
#. ["Dead man"](deadman.html)
#. ["The death zone"](death-zone.html)
#. ["Death's trumpet"](deathstrumpet.html)
#. ["Something about my tenure as a bear"](dollywood.html)
#. ["Dream"](dream.html)
#. ["Early"](early.html)
#. ["Elegy for an alternate self"](elegyforanalternateself.html)
#. ["Ex machina"](ex-machina.html)
#. ["Exasperated"](exasperated.html)
#. ["Father"](father.html)
#. ["Feeding the raven"](feedingtheraven.html)
#. ["Finding the lion"](finding-the-lion.html)
#. ["Fire"](fire.html)
#. ["Look: a found typewriter poem"](found-typewriter-poem.html)
#. ["Hands"](hands.html)
#. ["A hard game"](hard-game.html)
#. ["Hardware"](hardware.html)
#. ["How it happened"](howithappened.html)
#. ["Hymnal"](hymnal.html)
#. ["I am"](i-am.html)
#. ["I think it's you (but it's not)"](i-think-its-you.html)
#. ["I want to say"](i-want-to-say.html)
#. ["I wanted to tell you something"](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html)
#. ["In bed"](in-bed.html)
#. ["Initial conditions"](initial-conditions.html)
#. ["January"](january.html)
#. ["Joke"](joke.html)
#. ["L'appel du vide"](lappel-du-vide.html)
#. ["The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt"](largest-asteroid.html)
#. ["Last bastion"](last-bastion.html)
#. ["Last passenger"](last-passenger.html)
#. ["Leaf"](leaf.html)
#. ["Leg"](leg.html)
#. ["Liking things"](likingthings.html)
#. ["Listen"](listen.html)
#. ["Love as god"](love-as-god.html)
#. ["Love song"](lovesong.html)
#. ["Man"](man.html)
#. ["The moon is drowning"](moon-drowning.html)
#. ["The moon is gone and in its place a mirror"](moongone.html)
#. ["The mountain"](mountain.html)
#. ["Moving sideways"](movingsideways.html)
#. ["Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing"](music-433.html)
#. ["No nothing"](no-nothing.html)
#. ["Notes"](notes.html)
#. ["Nothing is ever over"](nothing-is-ever-over.html)
#. ["100 lines"](one-hundred-lines.html)
#. ["On formal poetry"](onformalpoetry.html)
#. ["Options"](options.html)
#. ["Ouroboros of memory"](ouroboros_memory.html)
#. ["Paul"](paul.html)
#. ["Peaches"](peaches.html)
#. ["Philosophy"](philosophy.html)
#. ["Phone"](phone.html)
#. ["Planks"](planks.html)
#. ["Litany for a plant"](plant.html)
#. ["Something about the nature of poetry and time"](poetry-time.html)
#. ["Prelude"](prelude.html)
#. ["Problems"](problems.html)
#. ["Proverbs"](proverbs.html)
#. ["Punch"](punch.html)
#. ["The purpose of dogs"](purpose-dogs.html)
#. ["Question"](question.html)
#. ["A real writer"](real-writer.html)
#. ["Reports"](reports.html)
#. ["Riptide of memory"](riptide_memory.html)
#. ["Ronald McDonald"](ronaldmcdonald.html)
#. ["Rough gloves"](roughgloves.html)
#. ["Sapling"](sapling.html)
#. ["Seasonal affective disorder"](seasonal-affective-disorder.html)
#. ["Sense of it"](sense-of-it.html)
#. ["Serengeti"](serengeti.html)
#. ["Shed"](shed.html)
#. ["Shipwright"](shipwright.html)
#. ["The sixteenth chapel"](sixteenth-chapel.html)
#. ["Snow"](snow.html)
#. ["Something simple"](something-simple.html)
#. ["Spittle"](spittle.html)
#. ["The squirrel"](squirrel.html)
#. ["Stagnant"](stagnant.html)
#. ["Statements"](statements-frag.html)
#. ["Stayed on the bus too long"](stayed-on-the-bus.html)
#. ["Stump"](stump.html)
#. ["Swan song (alternate)"](swansong-alt.html)
#. ["Swan song"](swansong.html)
#. ["Swear"](swear.html)
#. ["A table of contents"](table_contents.html)
#. ["Tapestry"](tapestry.html)
#. ["Telemarketer"](telemarketer.html)
#. ["The night we met, I was out of my mind"](the-night-we-met.html)
#. ["The sea and the beach"](the-sea_the-beach.html)
#. ["The ocean overflows with camels"](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html)
#. ["Time looks up to the sky"](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html)
#. ["To Daniel"](todaniel.html)
#. ["Toilet"](toilet.html)
#. ["Toothpaste"](toothpaste.html)
#. ["Treatise"](treatise.html)
#. ["Underwear"](underwear.html)
#. ["Walking in the rain"](walking-in-the-rain.html)
#. ["Wallpaper"](wallpaper.html)
#. ["We played those games too"](weplayedthosegamestoo.html)
#. ["What we are made of"](what-we-are-made-of.html)
#. ["When I'm sorry I wash dishes"](when-im-sorry-i.html)
#. ["Window"](window.html)
#. ["Worse looking over"](worse-looking-over.html)
#. ["Writing"](writing.html)
#. ["X-ray"](x-ray.html)
#. ["Yellow"](yellow.html)