Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Brunizem (1988) -- I The First Disciple -- Sujata: The First Disciple of Buddha -- The Peacock -- Iris -- Buffaloes -- (Udaylee) -- The Doors are Always Open -- (Shérdi) -- Swami Anand -- For Nanabhai Bhatt -- Nachiketa -- Kalika -- For My Grandmother -- Muliebrity -- Reincarnation -- Lizards -- The First Meeting -- Something for Plato -- The Difference between Being and Becoming -- II A Different History -- A Different History -- She Finds Her Place -- The Kama Sutra Retold -- Menu -- Parvati -- Looking Through a French Photographer's Portrayal of Rajasthan with Extensive Use of Orange Filters -- Oranges and Lemons -- The Women of Leh are such - -- Paper and Glass -- Another Act for the Lübecker Totentanz -- What Is Worth Knowing? -- Another Day in Iowa City -- Living with Trains -- Baltimore -- The Woodcut -- The Puppets -- Pink Shrimps and Guesses -- Looking Over What I Have Done -- Hey, -- Search for My Tongue -- III Eurydice Speaks -- Marie Curie to Her Husband -- The Garlic of Truth -- Wanting Agni -- Eurydice Speaks -- Mein lieber Schwan -- Written after Hearing about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- 3 November 1984 -- You Walk into This Room and -- Mappelmus -- The Undertow -- At the Marketplace -- Metamorphoses II: A Dream -- Saturday Night on Keswick Road -- The Writer -- Sad Songs with Henna Leaves -- Tail -- Go to Ahmedabad -- To My Muse -- Brunizem -- Well, Well, Well, -- Monkey Shadows (1991) -- I The Way to Maninagar -- The Langur Coloured Night -- The Stare -- Maninagar Days -- The Daily Offering -- The Glassy Green and Maroon -- Ajwali Ba -- Nanabhai Bhatt in Prison -- Kankaria Lake -- A Different Way to Dance -- What Happened to the Elephant? -- Red August -- Understanding the Ramayana -- Devibahen Pathak.

II Angels' Wings -- Angels' Wings -- Mozartstrasse 18 -- Yellow October -- Wine from Bordeaux -- A Story for Pearse -- Groningen: Saturday Market on a Very Sunny Day -- Counting Sheep White Blood Cells -- The Mad Woman in the Attic -- The Fish Hat -- The Echoes in Poona -- Walking Across the Brooklyn Bridge, July 1990 -- III Until Our Bones Prevent Us from Going Further -- The Sea at Night -- Another Portrait of Bartolo -- Rooms by the Sea -- Franz Marc's Blaue Fohlen -- Sunlight in a Cafeteria -- Portrait of a Double Portrait -- White Asparagus -- Distances -- The Rooster in Conil -- Just White Chips -- Beyond Edinburgh -- Love in a Bathtub -- Belfast, November 1987 -- 29 April 1989 -- The Need to Recall the Journey -- At the Flower Market -- Sinking into the Solstice -- Until Our Bones Prevent Us from Going Further -- What Does One Write When the World Starts to Disappear? -- The Stinking Rose (1995) -- I Freak Waves -- The One Who Goes Away -- We are Adrift -- Although She's a Small Woman -- Point No Point -- 'Man Swept out to Sea as Huge Wave Hit Rock' -- When the Dead Feel Lonely -- How Far East is it Still East? -- The Three Sisters -- The Wild Woman of the Forest -- Polish-German Woodcarver Visits Vancouver Island -- Victor, Whiskey, Juliet, 2 2 3 -- Salt Spring Island -- Your Sorrow -- II New World Dialogues -- The Light Teased Me -- Cow's Skull - Red, White and Blue -- Skinny-dipping in History -- Parrots -- What Does the Flower of Life Say, Frida Kahlo? -- Chutney -- Nothing is Black, Really Nothing -- The Blue Snake Who Loves Water -- Pelvis with Moon -- It Has Come to This -- III The Stinking Rose -- The Stinking Rose -- Ninniku -- (Russown) -- Garlic in War and Peace -- Mars Owns this Herb -- A Touch of Coriander -- Bear's Garlic at Nevern -- Frightened Bees -- Ther is No Rose of Swych Virtu -- The Worm -- A Poem in Three Voices.

A Brahmin Wants the Cows to Eat Lots of Garlic -- If You Named Your Daughter Garlic Instead of Lily or Rose -- Self-Portrait with Garlic -- Allium Moly and Odysseus -- Instructions to the Artist -- A First Draft from the Artist -- The Man in the Artist's First Draft Speaks -- The Good Farmer -- A Wintry July in Bremen -- Rosehips in August -- If a Ghazal were like Garlic -- Garlic and Sapphires in the Mud -- The Pharaoh Speaks -- It Has Not Rained for Months -- IV Old World Blood -- An India of the Soul -- A Gujarati Patient Speaks -- (Shantih) -- Genealogy -- Black Swans for Swantje -- One of the Wurst-Eaters on the Day After Good Friday -- Fate -- Orpheus Confesses to Eurydice -- Jealousy -- Kaspar Hauser Dreams of Horses -- Ophelia in Defence of the Queen -- Monsoon with Vector Anophelines -- More Fears about the Moon -- Lizard, Iguana, Chameleon, Salamander -- Sharda -- V (Riyaj) -- The Voices -- Consciousness -- Translation: Meditation on a Poem by Hasmukh Pathak -- First Rain -- Sruti -- Water -- Frauenjournal -- Augatora (2000) -- I Augatora -- Looking Up -- Squirrels -- The Dream -- Augatora -- Durban: A Visit to the Botanical Gardens -- A Memory from Marathi -- The Virologist -- Barcelona -- Gazpacho -- After Dinner in Conil -- Your Postcards -- A Swimmer in New England Speaks -- The Snake Catcher Speaks -- II History is a Broken Narrative -- Surus to Hannibal -- Partition -- Diabetes Mellitus -- The Pope, Tito and the WHO -- After the Earthquake -- Voice of the Unwanted Girl -- History is a Broken Narrative -- New Orleans Revisited -- The Shirodkar Suture -- A Room in Amsterdam -- Honeymoon -- Jerusalem -- The Woman they call Abuela -- Lódz -- Green Amber in Riga -- Language -- Jane to Tarzan -- III The Hole in the Wind -- The Hole in the Wind -- IV The Found Angel: Nine Poems for Ria Eïng -- The Found Angel -- Birthday Totem Pole.

The Snail-Ear -- Stingray -- Vogelfrau -- Broom, Wind and Bird: Zeitwanderer -- The Fox and the Angel -- A Black Feather -- Beeswax and Snakeskin Head -- V Ars Poetica -- Is it a Voice? -- Skintight with Ice -- The Mammoth Bone -- My Mother's Way of Wearing a Sari -- A Poem Consisting Entirely of Introductions -- This Room is Part of the NYC Subway System -- Montauk Garden with Stones and Water -- Equilibrium -- A Detail from the Chandogya Upanishad -- Poem for a Reader who was Born Blind -- The Circle -- The Multicultural Poem -- Meeting the Artist in Durban -- Ars Poetica -- A Colour for Solitude (2002) -- Self-Portrait as Aubade, 1897 -- Self-Portrait Done with Red Chalk, 1897 -- Self-Portrait as My Sister, 1897 -- Self-Portrait with Coppery Red Hair, 1897/98 -- Self-Portrait in Front of Window Offering a View of Parisian Houses, 1900 -- Two Girls, Two Sisters, PB to CW, 1900 -- Black Sails, PB to RMR, September 1900 -- A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, 1901 -- Your Weyerberg Gaze, CW to RMR, 1901 -- No Road Leads to This, CW to RMR, 1901 -- The Washing on the Line, 1901 -- Two Girls in a Landscape, 1901 -- Icicles Hang from the Reeds of Our Roof, CW to PB, February 1902 -- You Kissed My Eyelids, PB to RMR, March 1902 -- Elsbeth, PB to CW, July 1902 -- Self-Portrait with Scratches, 1903 -- Self-Portrait with Blossoming Trees, 1903 -- Two Girls: The Blind Sister, 1903 -- Self-Portrait in Front of a Landscape with Trees, 1903 -- Two Girls in Profile in a Landscape, charcoal, 1903/04 -- In Her Green Dress, She is, 1905 -- Self-Portrait with Your Jaw Set, 1905 -- You are the Rose, CW to RMR, 1905 -- A Red Rose in November, PB to CW, 1905 -- Don't Look at Me like That, CW to PB, 1905 -- Runic, PB to CW, 1905 -- Self-Portrait with an Oversized Hat and a Red Rose in the Right Hand, 1905 -- Self-Portrait with a Necklace of White Beads, 1906.

Self-Portrait with a Wreath of Red Flowers in Your Hair, 1906 -- A Colour for Solitude, PB to RMR, 1906 -- Self-Portrait on My Fifth Wedding Anniversary, 25-5-06 -- Self-Portrait as a Nude Torso with an Amber Necklace, 1906 -- Self-Portrait as Anonymous, 1906 -- You Spoke of Italy, PB to RMR, 1906 -- Is there More Truth in a Photograph?, PB to her sister HB, 1906 -- Self-Portrait as a Life-Sized Nude, 1906 -- Self-Portrait as a Standing Nude with a Hat, 1906 -- Self-Portrait Wearing a Blue and White Striped White Dress, 1906 -- Self-Portrait with Yellowish Green, 1906 -- Two Girls: One Sitting in a White Shirt, the Other, a Standing Nude, 1906 -- Two Girls: Nude, One Standing, the Other Kneeling in Front of Red Poppies, 1906 -- Two Girls with their Arms Across their Shoulders, 1906 -- Self-Portrait on a Hot Day in Paris, 1906 -- Self-Portrait as a Mask, 1906 -- Self-Portrait with a Hat and Veil, 1906 -- Self-Portrait, Frontal, with a Flower in the Right Hand, 1906/7 -- A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, a retrospective view of 1901, PB to OM -- Otto with a Pipe, PB to OM, 1906/07 -- Self-Portrait with a Lemon, 1906/07 -- Self-Portrait with a Sprig of Camellia Leaves, 1906/07 -- And What Will Death Do?, 1906/07 -- Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in the Left Hand, PB to CW, 1907 -- Who has Just Died? CW to PB, 1908 -- Through the Blackness, CW to PB, 1915 -- 21 November 1916, CW to PB -- The Room Itself is Dying, CW to RMR, circa 1921 -- Ruth's Wish, CW to RMR, 1936 -- 16 April 1945, CW to PB -- Was it the Blue Irises? -- Clara's Voice -- Lines Written in Venice -- Fischerhude, 2001 -- Worpswede, 2001 -- Pure Lizard (2008) -- I A Hidden Truth -- A Hidden Truth -- The Fourth Monkey -- Two Monkeys -- The Crow, his Beak, and a Girl -- Nine Poems in Response to Etchings by Paula Rego -- The Crow's House -- The Crow and his Cat -- A Tube of Paint.

The Night Crow.