CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- I. The Universe and I -- The Universe and I -- Women from the 1960s (I) -- Women from the 1960s (II) -- The Midlands -- Calling the Season -- Cherry Garden -- Destiny -- The Captain -- The Utopian -- Darkness -- The Flanders Road -- MCMXCVI -- The Other Dream -- II. Night Flight -- Black Stars -- Invisible Chain -- The Slumber of Books (I) -- The Slumber of Books (II) -- That Blue Sky -- In the Night -- Viet Blood -- A Bullet Fired into the Night -- A Sandal Dropped in a Swamp -- Hanoi -- Bonn -- The Garret -- Hai Phong -- Little Lap-Tree -- Someday -- From Behind a Covered Window -- Empty Well -- Six Billion Minus One Equals Six Billion -- III. Road on the Earth -- Nightmare -- Praise for the Dead -- Evening -- By the Loiret River -- My Stories -- Not Speaking -- The Man with Big Eyes -- Your Hand, the Unending Season -- A Tree Has Fallen -- Change -- Road on the Earth -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.