I. The Argument
Olives
Jigsaw Puzzle
Recitative
Sublunary
Four Fibs
The Compost Heap
The Dress of One Occasion
Deus Ex Machina
Telephonophobia
Fear of Happiness
The Argument
Burned
On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia
II. Extinction of Silence
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Ascribed to Martin Luther
Two Violins
Country Song
Sabbatical
The Ghost Ship
Handbook of the Foley Artist
Extinction of Silence
Blackbird Etude
Lines for Turner Cassity
Funereal Stelae: Kerameikos, Athens
The Cenotaph
Pop Music
III. Three Poems for Psyche
The Eldest Sister to Psyche
The Boatman to Psyche on the River Styx
Persephone to Psyche
IV. Fairy-tale Logic
Fairy-tale Logic
The Catch
Two Nursery Rhymes
Containment
Accident Waiting to Happen
Dinosaur Fever
Tulips
Alice in the Looking Glass
Umbrage
Hide and Seek
Sea Girls
Listening to "Peter and the Wolf" with Jason, Aged Three
The Mother's Loathing of Balloons
Another Bedtime Story
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