Cemetery of Mind Book

	Liberty	3
	Fragments	4
	Pledging my Soul	6
	The Dance is Open	7
	Metamorphosis and Darkness (an extract)	8
	The Struggle (a fragment)	10
	Characters from the Bergfrith	17
	Emptied Hearts	23
	Without	28
	There Is Nowhere to Go Mister	29
	I Am the Rape	30
	Smash, Grab, Run	31
	Throne of Bayonets	35
	Punkpoem	59
	The Bar-Stool Edible Worm	59
	Thinking Action	60
	The Footnote to Hamlet	60
	The Lancaster House Dressing Table	61
	Lines for Dean Swift	61
	Landscape Gardening	62
	Scrap Metal Flower Arrangement	62
	Full Moon Childhood	63
	The Grip	63
	Dark Pennywhistle	64
	Angling	64
	Changing Seasons	65
	The Voice of Watercolour Reeds	65
	The Dream	66
	In the History Class	66
	Oracle of the Povo	67
	The Poems Semantics (after Rainer Maria Rilke)	68
	To Langston Hughes	69
	Dead Guerillas Displayed to School Children	70
	Hooked A-Gallop	70
	The Undying Testament (Soweto, June 16 & Sharpeville)	71
	The Coin of Moonshire	74
	Open Window Shirtsleeves	75
	Fragment	75
	Fragment	76
	Siesta	76
	The Light of Landscapes in Strings	77
	The Dream in the Cloud	78
	Mind in Residence	78
	Sunday Service	79
	Flower Arrangement of Fear	79
	Honeybeans my Piano	83
	The Book's Spokesman's Apology	84
	Drunk after the Misunderstanding	85
	Fictional Crux the Illusion	86
	Execution	86
	Lynching	87
	Fireflowers Early November	88
	Raid!	89
	Christmas 1983	90
	The Trees of this City	91
	Gardening Friends	92
	Cleveland Dam the Wine Afternoon	92
	Before the Guests Arrive	93
	The Honeymoon a Disaster Area	93
	Temporary Sanity	94
	The Kamikaze Pilot Returns	95
	Marriage	96
	Rats for Sale	97
	Sunday it's Raffingora	98
	A Shred of Identity	99
	In the Gallery	103
	Goodbye	103
	Holding Hands	104
	By Bain Brothers Building	104
	By Founders Building	105
	Windowshopping	105
	Letter from Hospital - Norfolk Hotel	106
	Trying to Get Drunk	106
	Parliament	106
	Pub Conversation	107
	Inside Batanai Bar	107
	Union Avenue	108
	The Student Union (U.Z.)	108
	The Garden at Oasis Motel	109
	At the Student Union II (U.Z.)	109
	The Long Bar	110
	The Swimming Pool (U.Z.)	110
	Guitar String Dance (at Hotel Elizabeth)	111
	Job's Nitespot	111
	Intimations at Makavusi Bar	112
	6.00 pm City News (30 May 1985 Makabusi Bar, Harare)	113
	Mass Graves: Rusape	139
	The Zimbabwe Children's Liberation Festival	140
	Sharpeville's Blind Nights Ahead	143
	The Beacon Built on a Hill: footnote to Machel's death (Matthew 5.14)	146
	Dark as the door of a dream	147
	In this palmprint of screeching tyres	148
	The old man inside me	149
	Hell is other people	150
	He is sick, Doctor	150
	I have eaten the stars	150
	Midnight's cluster of Widow Spiders	150
	In the hospital of the angels	151
	The green lion leaps off my silver	151
	The red rubber ball	155
	What rough night erased the bloom	155
	Sunset's bloodshot eye	156
	Laughter's thief sours her sighs	156
	Knucklebruised whisper	157
	I dont know whats going on	158
	They are boiling my bones in the kitchen	159
	It does not matter which path you take	160
	Deface it; daub it red	161
	My skin is the map	161
	Roseview Court	162
	The Declaration	163
	Morning Sickness	164
	Amelia: Sonnets and Other Poems	167
	When Love's Perished	169
	A Phantom of Delight	170
	Her Hand My Eyes Closes	171
	Primal Vision	172
	Th' Anniversary	173
	The Visitor	174
	Amelia	175
	The Cemetery in the Mind	176
	The Future a Mad Poem	177
	Amelia's at Apollo's Shrine	178
	Agony Column	179
	Dido in Despair	180
	Cassandra's Ball (a fragment)	180
	There's a Dissident in the Election Soup!	183
	Writing this Means I'm not Complaining	184
	Did You Ask What's Wrong with War?	185
	A Strong Case for Crap Artists by One against Them	185
	Who's Used my New Rucksack!?	186
	Where the Bastard Is God?	187
	Dope the Third World at Your Own Risk!	188
	Only the Mountainclimber Can Tell Us	189
	A Gothic Fragment near Warren Hills	190
	Comrade Dracula Joins the Revolution: A Wedding of Minds?	191
	Even Poets Enjoy Incidents	192
	An Expelled Student's Case for Retaining Old English	193
	It Was a Good Idea at the Time, Your Honour	194
	In Jail the Only Telephone Is the Washbasin Hole: Blow and We'll Hear!	195
	Identify the Identity Parade	199
	My Time to Know	200
	Neither Innocence Nor Experience	201
	Green Graces Welcome Here	202
	Under Anaesthetic	202
	Workhouse Trumpet	203
	The Devil's Defiance (An Anonymous Note to Society)	204
	The Waterman Cometh	204
	Ice to Reprieve	205
	The Chair in Grief	205
	Darkness a Bird of Prey	206
	I Used to Like Tomatoes	207
	Which One of You Bastards is Death?	208
	Dambudzo Marechera Speaks about Poetry	209
	Editor's Note	218
	List of Publications Containing Poems by Marechera	222