Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: The Cartographer of Water -- Charcoal on Canvas -- A Slow Boat to China -- Satellite -- At the Confucius Center -- Promenade -- The Lights in Zanzibar -- Eternally Distracted -- Ghostwriter: A Found Poem -- Shakara -- Memorial -- The Nobel Prize for Medicine -- On a Terrace Balcony in Abuja -- Algorithm -- Reality Television -- September -- Principles of Variations -- Otto Gross -- Central Park -- Desertion -- New House -- The Anointing -- I Could Smell Them -- Lost Stones -- Travel Guide -- It's Not the Same as When You Crush Paper Flowers -- A Bronze God, or a Letter on Demand -- Birds -- Imitation Bodies -- My Sisters Used to Put Me in Dresses -- Unclaimed -- Mountain -- Strange Male -- Merchant of Flesh -- Playhouse Lane -- Let Us Now Talk about Your Waist, Saying -- Dancers -- A Benzedrine Hallucination -- Madman at Kilifi -- Young -- Reclaiming a Beloved City -- The Ante-Chamber -- Imagine Those Slender Cigarettes -- Concerto of the Unconcerned -- Galilee -- A Genre of Isolation -- Bride -- Treason -- Cucu Njeri -- The Latrine of Giardia -- The Bin -- "Metrosexual" -- Approaching Siaya -- About the Author.