Contents

Transformer

Hard Maple
Glamourland
Idle Matinée
Some Other Fish
Tatterdemalion
All Hat and No Cowboy
Broken Chair
Mandala
In My Pocket
Bystander
Thinker
Blancmange
The Sunset Rides a Greasy Horse
Space Reservations for Four
Outside the Hat

Pink Balloon
Good Neighbours Make Good Fences
The Long Distance Philosophy of My Friend Bob
Branch
Waiter
Tree
A Bed of Nails
Street Sign
Gleam

The Next Dance

Buffalo Twang
Heaven Pianos
Seventy-Seven
Yodeler
Down to the Middle and Back Again
In Thee Strawe Berrie Feild
Foure Daunces

How I Became My Father's Hat
la Famille Leduc
Glimmering Rows
Byzantium
Fact
Cuba, The Leafless Stumps of Trees
Scar

Pig Greek

Geography
Jain Jing Loks
Glyph
Haiku Night in Canada

Ladder
Thrill of Chestwall
Reception
Whistler
Little Bells ('you are lying on the bottom ...')
Passenger
Fingers
Mouth
Last Line

About the author
Acknowledgments