from Calling out to Yeti 1957 : Brueghel's two monkeys -- Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition -- Nothing twice -- from Salt 1962 : Museum -- A moment in Troy -- Clochard -- Vocabulary -- Travel elegy -- An unexpected meeting -- Rubens' women -- Coloratura -- Bodybuilders' contest -- Poetry reading -- The tower of Babel -- Water -- Conversation with a stone -- from No end of fun 1967 : The joy of writing -- Landscape -- Family album -- The railroad station -- Born -- Soliloquy for Cassandra -- A Byzantine mosaic -- Beheading.

Pieta -- Returning birds -- Thomas Mann -- Tarsier -- The acrobat -- A Palaeolithic fertility fetish -- No end of fun -- from Could have 1972 : Could have -- Theatre impressions -- Voices -- The letters of the dead -- Advertisement -- Going home -- Discovery -- Dinosaur skeleton -- Birthday -- Allegro ma non troppo -- Autotomy -- Frozen motion -- The classic -- In praise of dreams -- True love -- Under one small star -- from A large number 1976 : A large number -- Thank-you note -- Psalm -- Lot's wife -- Seen from above -- Experiment -- Smiles.

The terrorist, he's watching -- A medieval miniature -- In praise of my sister -- Hermitage -- Evaluation of an unwritten poem -- Warning -- The onion -- The suicide's room -- In praise of feeling bad about yourself -- On the banks of the Styx -- Utopia -- Pi -- from The people on the bridge 1986 : Archeology -- View with a grain of sand -- Clothes -- On death, without exaggeration -- In broad daylight -- Our ancestors' short lives -- Hitler's first photograph -- The century's decline -- Children of our age -- Tortures -- Plotting with the dead.

Writing a resume -- Funeral -- An opinion on the question of pornography -- A tale begun -- Into the ark -- Miracle fair -- The people on the bridge -- from The end and the beginning 1993 : Sky -- No title required -- The end and the beginning -- Hatred -- Reality demands -- Elegiac calculation -- Cat in an empty apartment -- Parting with a view -- Seance -- Love at first sight -- May 16, 1973 -- Maybe all this -- Slapstick -- Nothing's a gift -- One version of events -- We're extremely fortunate.