INTRODUCTION * I. THE NEGATIVES OF SILENCE * Misguided Pursuits * Back Then * Bitter Knowledge * Forgetfulness * Intimations * The Uninvited * Closing Words * Perhaps * The Crazy * Incident * Minimal Harvest * Hypothermia * Escape * Tokens * Denouement * Pointless Lucidity * Conversions * Harsh News * Pilgrimage * Homeland * Hour of Anonymity * Post Script * Not Quite * Another Summer * People and Suitcases * The Latest Word * A Pillar * What Cannot Be Weighted * Topography * Strange Dream * Two in the Afternoon * II. THE BARE TREE * Useless Keys * On Silence * The Other Fear * Depletion * The Statues and Us * From Another Time * Garden in Autumn * Sluggishness * Sparse Leavings * Work Table * Self-Knowledge * Sitting Out the Rain * Painting Stones * III. LATE INTO THE NIGHT * Inertia * Same as Ever * Nothing * The Sound of the Bell * Trifles * Good Luck * Balance * Last Minute Diversions * The Nails * Evacuation * Naught * The Everlastings * The Trial * Until One Night * The Original Position * Stages of Weariness * In the Garden * Innocence * Changes * Tonight * Traffic * Privileged * Wrong Number * A Flowershop * And the Poem * Turned Soil * The Black Boat * IV. TICKS OF THE CLOCK * V. BOAT WHISTLES * The Last Summer.