Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- I: Many Love Poems -- Our Life -- One Summer Night -- First Thought -- The Word for It -- Be Home by Midnight -- Old Flame -- Corsican Summer -- Fire -- Airstream Bubble Trailer -- The Tao tells me to go on loving you -- Hotel -- Dare -- Fallowfield -- Married Man -- Late -- His Book -- Marriage -- Separation -- Old Jewish Men -- Yesterday -- II: Kisses and Harps -- Kisses -- At Arm's Length -- Primary Colours -- How to Make Breasts Disappear -- Ticks and Kisses -- Health Scare -- Non-Poetics -- Sleeping -- Lost Souls from Christie Hospital -- Radiotherapy -- Ray Charles Visits Suite 1, Radiotherapy Department, Christie Hospital, Manchester, England -- Harps -- Pronouncement -- Max -- Gift House -- Care Givers -- Candour -- Dwight Way -- Harp in the Sick Room -- Dying -- Asleep and Awake -- Resting Place -- Home Funeral -- The Midst -- The Twenty-four Hours -- III: Our Lives -- Taffeta -- Name -- Contract for Love and Death -- Jazzer -- Winter on Long Island -- Till Graduation -- Deceased, Class of 1959 -- Giveaway -- August -- We know it's not the same river every day -- 6 August, 1945 -- Sometimes Snow -- Prospect Cottage -- Mittens -- Banana Crossing -- On the Way to the Wedding -- Secret -- The Crawl -- The Only Mother -- Better.