Contents -- Ecology -- At the Pantheon (A postcard from Rome) -- Hesitation -- Tourism -- Day's End -- Beside San Francisco Bay -- In Memory of -- At Four in the Morning, Approaching the Coast by Sea -- Lines Upon the Sand -- Long Corridor's End -- The Fragrance of Cinnamon -- One Winter Day, Walking by a Crowded Cafe -- Once, Watched -- Your Skin -- Islands in the Bay -- A Short Essay on Poetry (Homage to David Schubert) -- Rainbow Lorikeets -- Query from the Street -- About the Solicitor (With a debt to John Ashbery) -- On Listening to the Stock Market Report -- The Future -- On a Hill Beside the Sea -- 'The Real Work' -- Poem -- One Evening at a Party -- In Life -- My Father -- Sometimes -- Jesuitical -- At the Rock Concert -- In the World -- Pacific Corals -- Uluru -- 'Poor land may be rich country' -- Biographical Note.