Contents

Waiting for the Nightingale

Wyatt’s Diary

Pussycats

Four Last Things

The Family Doctor

English Provincial Poetry

The Nose

The Summerhouse

The Crocodile Skin Handbag

Across the Road

The End of the Affair

Shelyest

Initiation

What To Do After the Funeral

The Gate of Rain

Come In, Number Seven!

The Figure in the Tapestry

I Long to Talk with Some Old Lover’s Ghost

The Curfew Tolls

Why Did You Become a Doctor?

Memoirs of an Analyst

Letter to an Elderly Poet

Trouble at the Nunnery

Petrol Stations

Looking Like That

Theatre of Memory

Problems with the Theatre of Memory: FAQ

At Nam Bao

The Wasp-orchid

Towards Laxmai

The Flight from Meaning

The Second Affair

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