Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Fresh Air -- Four Thoughts from Abroad -- 1 blue sky in Porvoo... -- 2 deconstructing the Turkish flag over Diyarbakir -- 3 execution of a Chinese con man -- 4 scene seen from a plane over South Asia -- A Poem from Home and Russia, Number 1: -- Sputnik over En Zed -- Five P.each Pomes -- 1 the price of goats' milk -- 2 gecrong -- 3 flowers -- 4 do not -- 5 I fink -- Two Still Lifes Painted at the Subject -- 1 Ode to Autumn -- 2 banana -- Three Site-Specific Poems -- 1 poem to be read by the fire -- 2 poem to be read at a swimming lesson -- 3 poem to be read while cycling -- Three Poems Written in Mongolia -- 1 the Mongolian Women's Orchestra -- 2 bits of Karakorum -- 3 man in a yellow del -- Introduction and Exercise Concerning the Kenning, After Snorri Sturluson's 'Skáldskaparmál' -- 1 introduction to the kenning -- 2 a simple kenning exercise -- A Text with txt: MOT for Prisoner MH 8313 -- Five Excuses -- 1 homework -- 2 wedding -- 3 listening -- 4 football -- 5 writing -- Poem Written After a Dream Dreamed at the Exact Time of the Death of Luciano Pavarotti: the Apotheosis of Pavarotti -- Poems Describing my Four Favourite Pictures in the National Gallery -- Two Poems Written in Scotch Drizzle -- 1 in the graveyard at Campbeltown with a wet beanie -- 2 the statues of Glasgow and Campbeltown -- Two Norfolk Beach Poems -- 1 sunrise at Brancaster Beach -- 2 the Golden Sands Amusements, Hunstanton, on St Lucy's Day -- Three Translations of Nineteenth-Century Folk Songs -- 1 from Rolovia -- 2 from Doppland -- 3 from Briagon -- A Poem from Home and Russia, Number 2: the Cold War -- Four Transexualised Poems -- 1 Brother, Awake ! -- 2 Simplex Munditiis -- 3 Hear, ye Menfolk -- 4 The Mermen's Song -- Poem Inspired by a Vacuum Cleaner: vacuuming sunshine.

The Complete Yellow Bestiary of Tragley Bizumpoi (b. Bologna 1621-d. Pin'Shen 1639) -- 1 the Canary-bird. -- 2 the Peruvian Fly -- 3 the Mongol-Goose -- 4 the Yellow Sallys -- 5 the Seawasp -- 6 the Sulphur Butterfly -- 7 the Urobat -- 8 the Kinkajou -- A Poem Concerning my First Memory: babybathoughts -- A Sonnet for my Cat -- A Poem with the Name of Every Child in the World In It: -- flags of all nations -- Six Origami Poems -- 1 Derry Railway Station -- 2 Elvarethilion -- 3 a leaping gnu -- 4 Korotangi -- 5 the Golden Gate Bridge -- 6 resectoscope -- A Poem Written in Sickness: love on a yellow bedspread -- A Poem Written Completely in the Dark: lights in water -- A Sonnet Fit Against Adventure by the Hobbit Barley Quagtrout, Who Once Went as Far as the White Downs, but Did Not Like Them -- A Poem Written While Walking in the Fresh Air and Drizzle with a Piece of Paper and a Pencil Near Campbeltown in Scotland: on Davaar Island -- Eleven Ideas for Poems -- A Poem Written While Tramping in the Fresh Air on Mount Robert, St Arnaud, New Zealand: the balance -- A Poem from the Darkling Days of Samuel Beckett, Written in a Hole in the Turf at the Top of Lugnaquilla During Hail: in a womb, I think … -- Three Great Scientific Ideas Clearly Explained in Poetry -- 1 Natural Selection -- 2 Black Hole -- 3 Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity -- Two Poems Written on Empty Islands -- 1 the yellow-blinded fale, Manono, Samoa -- 2 Sark -- A Poem Written by the Light of Rockets on Fireworks Night: -- death and fireworks -- A Poem Written While Riding an Irish Bike: Knock Knock -- Figures of Peach, Pear and Plum -- 1 alliteration -- 2 anaphora -- 3 epiphora -- 4 antithesis -- 5 parallelism -- 6 apostrophe -- 7 assonance -- 8 chiasmus -- peaches to pears -- 9 euphemism -- 10 hyperbole -- 11 accismus -- 12 litotes -- 13 catachresis -- 14 metaphor -- 15 metonymy.

16 onomatopoeia -- pears to plums -- 17 oxymoron -- 18 paradox -- 19 personification -- 20 antanaclasis -- 21 simile -- 22 synecdoche -- 23 zeugma -- 24 tetracolon climax -- A Poem Written While Walking in the Fresh Air and Rain at Vester Cove, Donaghadee -- Eight Possible Fragments of Wasit Huraira'h (fl. c. AH 700-710) -- fragment 1 -- fragment 2 -- fragment 3 -- fragment 4 -- fragment 5 -- fragment 6 -- fragment 7 -- fragment 8 -- Two Dances in the Fresh Air -- 1 at the standing stones at Baltray, Co. Louth -- 2 on the Heaphy Track, near Karamea, New Zealand -- A Haiku with an Explanatory Note -- The Story of Molecule -- 1 Molecule leaves home -- 2 he goes back for his bike -- 3 Dad wakes up -- 4 Molecule spends the day asleep -- 5 Tahuna Beach -- 6 Mr Gillies goes to the police -- 7 Molecule reaches Nelson Cathedral -- 8 dawn at Atawhai -- 9 Dad and Auntie Jack talk -- 10 Molecule is seen near Cable Bay -- 11 nearly nearly near Hira -- 12 Molecule gets blown over -- 13 his dream on Whangamoa Saddle -- 14 Molecule spreads the word -- 15 Mr Gillies wraps his Christmas presents -- 16 Molecule eats at the Something Oven -- 17 Molecule is confirmed alive by a day-person -- 18 Molecule goes for a swim -- 19 he visits the giant totara -- 20 at Richmond Community Policing Centre -- 21 Molecule sees some hunters and fishers at the pub -- 22 life at the Richmond Community Policing Centre -- 23 Molecule's breakfast and wound -- 24 Nana Gillies goes to bed -- 25 how things are -- 26 no publicity please -- 27 what Mr Gillies knew about his son -- 28 sex on a windy road -- 29 what Molecule's heart told him -- 30 chased by a helicopter at Momorangi Bay -- 31 how he was -- 32 the Picton Ferry -- 33 on the foreshore -- 34 elevation and balance -- 35 an argument overheard -- 36 Jeff visits Wig and Steff -- 37 Jesus lights in Blenheim -- 38 and out the other side.

39 Molecule is sighted sleeping in a vineyard tractor -- 40 his chain comes off -- 41 Molecule's dream -- 42 Jeff Gillies sends a deceptive e-mail -- 43 a fast ride to Ward -- 44 the e-mail is received -- 45 Christmas thoughts at Atawhai -- 46 puncture and capture -- 47 what should Molecule do? -- 48 taken -- 49 home again -- 50 Nana gets the news -- 51 home alone -- 52 Mr Gillies' note and swim -- 53 same thing, different direction -- 54 another missing person -- 55 another night at Rabbit Island -- 56 Sunday the 21st of December -- 57 because he's mine -- 58 feast at Mapua wharf -- 59 Nana comes Christmas shopping -- 60 a lighted window -- 61 Ruby Bay -- 62 an accidental headline -- 63 Motueka -- 64 near Riwaka -- 65 and this is God -- 66 a hop story -- 67 on Takaka Hill -- 68 Happy Christmas -- 69 look no brakes -- 70 friends -- 71 a Takaka bride -- 72 clean the next night -- 73 clean too -- 74 Saturday at the Springs -- 75 Patons Rock like -- 76 chookfeed -- 77 sick and sought -- 78 death of a bike -- 79 what they had to do -- 80 1st interview with Amy Steffert -- 81 a knight without a horse -- 82 1st interview with Amy Steffert (2) -- 83 at the old graveyard in Excellent Street -- 84 1st interview with Amy Steffert (3) -- 85 Collingwood-watch -- 86 New Year's Eve -- 87 stars and people -- 88 the motel -- 89 Molecule escapes just in time -- 90 money -- 91 eaten by things -- 92 off road -- 93 DS Baigent understands -- 94 wall -- 95 Fossil Point -- 96 Jeff and Jack look at a holiday brochure -- 97 Molecule stays a second night at Fossil Point -- 98 tourists -- 99 was Molecule the cause of the Picton Ferry suicide? -- 100 incitement? -- 101 Molecule walks to Pillar Point lighthouse and Cape Farewell -- 102 Dad thinks again -- 103 Nana Gillies spends time -- 104 Molecule agoraphilia -- 105 DS Baigent and the bloody phone -- 106 evolution extinguished.

107 haere ra goodbye.