Consolation -- Osso buco -- Directions -- Influence -- Water table -- Reading in a hammock -- Print -- Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales -- Cheers -- Best cigarette -- Metropolis -- Days -- Tuesday, June 4, 1991 -- Art of drowning -- Canada -- Biography of a cloud -- Death beds -- Conversion -- Horizon -- City of tomorrow -- Thesaurus -- Fiftieth birthday eve -- On turning ten -- Shadow -- Workshop -- Keat's handwriting -- Budapest -- My heart -- Romanticism -- Monday morning -- Dancing toward Bethlehem -- The first dream -- Sweet talk -- Dream -- Man in space -- Philosophy -- While eating a pear -- The end of the world -- Center -- Design -- The invention of the saxophone -- Medium -- Driving myself to a poetry reading -- Pinup -- Piano lessons -- Exploring the coast of birdland -- The blues -- Nightclub -- Some final words.