Acknowledgments p. xi
Foreword p. 1
Translator's Note p. 5
...for a long time chance had been toying with them...
Commemoration p. 13
Openness p. 15
Drinking Wine p. 17
I am too close for him... p. 19
A Dream p. 21
A Man's Household p. 23
A Thank-You Note p. 24
Cat in an Empty Apartment p. 26
Parting with a View p. 28
Love at First Sight p. 30
Negative p. 32
...too much has happened that was not supposed to happen...
We knew the world backwards and forwards... p. 35
Still p. 36
Starvation Camp at Jaslo p. 38
Psalm p. 40
The Turn of the Century p. 42
Children of Our Era p. 44
Torture p. 46
The End and the Beginning p. 48
Hatred p. 50
Reality Demands p. 53
Some People p. 55
...I knock at the door of the rock...
Circus Animals p. 59
Water p. 60
Conversation with a Rock p. 62
Birds Returning p. 65
Seen from Above p. 66
View with a Grain of Sand p. 67
Sky p. 69
Clouds p. 71
In Abundance p. 73
The Silence of Plants p. 76
...of human kind for now...
A Note p. 81
The Cave p. 84
A Speech at the Lost and Found p. 86
A Large Number p. 87
Surplus p. 89
On Death, without Exaggeration p. 91
No Title Required p. 93
One Version of Events p. 95
A Word on Statistics p. 99
...the unthinkable is thinkable...
Atlantis p. 105
In Heraclitus' River p. 107
A Poem in Honor Of p. 108
Pursuit p. 109
Interview with a Child p. 111
Nothing nothinged itself for me as well p. 113
Under a Certain Little Star p. 114
The Dream of the Old Tortoise p. 116
Pi p. 117
Miracle Fair p. 119
...Oh Muse...
Leaving the Cinema p. 123
Rubens' Women p. 124
Poetry Reading p. 126
The Joy of Writing p. 127
Landscape p. 129
Thomas Mann p. 131
Stage Fright p. 133
A Great Man's House p. 135
People on the Bridge p. 137
Some Like Poetry p. 139
Notes p. 141
Biographical Note p. 155