Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Editor's Note xvii
Intellectual Education 3
On the Lagoon 7
Fullness 9
Two Destinies 11
Intermezzo 13
As a boy I lived on the third floor… 15
Once 17
To Pio Rajna 19
Dear Mosca… 23
Under a Lombard Painting 25
It's not my fault… 27
Talking Birds 29
Backwards 31
The Sabià 33
All Soul's Day 35
Life, the infinite… 37
Reflections in the Water 39
Honor 41
Memory 45
Big Bang or Something Else 47
Solitude 49
The Void 51
After the Rain 53
Heroism 55
Reading Cavafy 57
Jehovah's Witnesses 59
Harmony 61
Transvestisms 63
Opinion 65
A Poet 67
For a Cut Flower 69
Under the Arbor 71
Everyday Story 73
Eulogy of Our Age 75
Fire and Darkness 77
Literary Histories 79
Soliloquy 81
Easter Evening 83
Easter Monday 85
Sub tegmine fagi… 87
I've scattered birdseed… 89
Ruit hora… 91
Fifty years ago… 93
So far as I know… 95
Maybe someday… 97
From a Notebook 99
This my repudiation… 101
Murder is not my forte… 103
We're into group solitude now… 105
If less opposes more… 107
Nets for Birds 109
Unanswered Questions 111
Living 113
Cabaletta 117
Paperweights 119
On Lake Orta 121
Rage 123
Ending life… 125
Notes 127
The Elephants 129
Euphoria 131
Epigram 133
In the Negative 135
Culture 137
In a Northern City 139
On a Lost Cat 141
Hypothesis 143
At Your Feet 145
The One Who's Listening 149
The Evening Hours 151
Truth 153
In the Non-Human 155
Animals 157
Opprobrium 159
Capsizing 161
What Remains (If Anything) 163
Poetry 165
A Dream, One of Many 167
Disappearance of Screech-Owls 171
General Proofs 173
Without Danger 175
The Woman of the Lighthouse 177
From the Other Shore 179
The monstrous human farce… 181
Life wavers… 183
End of September 185
There's still no proof… 189
On the Beach 191
Dangerous faults are gaping… 193
Someone told me that we'd meet again… 195
At the Seashore (Or Nearly) 197
The Creator was uncreated… 201
There's only one world inhabited… 203
Aspasia 205
A Letter Never Posted 207
Very little is resolved… 209
Springtime Torpor 211
Protect me… 213
Hamburger 217
Dead poets rest in peace… 219
To Finish 221
Drowsing 223
Hidingplaces 225
Beyond the little wrought-iron fence… 227
After the philosophers of the homogeneous… 229
Locuta Lutetia 231
Lakeside 233
A Mistake 235
Once identity is lost… 237
Mirages 239
Morgana 243
Notes 245
Index 249
