The moment made marvellous Book

	Introduction
	A Round Song	3
	The Little Grenade	4
	Yellow Without Poetry	5
	Grasshopper	8
	The Bee Crossing the Road	9
	The Kingfisher	10
	Small Mercies	11
	Into the Den of Don't Intrude	12
	The Black and Orange Dead	14
	Snails	16
	Occasions of Snails	17
	The Brineshrimp	20
	Presentation	21
	The Case Wrapped Up	21
	Baiting Bush Rats	23
	Bicycle	25
	Machine	27
	An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton	28
	Joyfully	29
	Clouds	29
	Brisbane River	31
	The Old	32
	Wild Nights at the Alliance Francaise	34
	The Long Years	36
	Note with Interlude from the Banks of the Brisbane in September	40
	The Flow of Them All	42
	Currawongs in a Persimmon Tree	43
	Magnificence	44
	Waiting Cold	47
	The Pilgrimage	48
	Night-Fall	50
	Mango Weather	51
	Mangoes	53
	Describing Crabs	54
	Sonnet Like a Jellyfish	54
	Crab Meat	55
	Mudcrab at Gambaro's	57
	The Crab Feast	66
	The Hollow Thesaurus	77
	Lufthansa	81
	Colonial	83
	from "Safari Across Ethiopia"	85
	Bangkok Crocodile Farm	86
	Letter from Abroad	87
	Discovering Parts of a Body	89
	Marco Polo's Concubine Speaks Out	90
	Eskimo Occasion	92
	Borges at 73	93
	The Great Museum	97
	The Library of T-Shirts	98
	Aerogramme	100
	Letter to America	101
	Sojourners at Phoenix	105
	Joplin	107
	Makhno's Philosophers	108
	Los Alamos: Manhattan	111
	Anyone Home?	113
	Bosnia/Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	117
	Two Summers in Moravia	119
	Toast	121
	The Invention of Fire	122
	Regret about the Wolves	123
	The Journey	125
	The City of Home	126
	Parnassus Mad Ward	131
	Bums' Rush	131
	Letting Go	133
	Morning & Evening	135
	The Sleepers	136
	Portents	137
	The Mirror	139
	Shoplifter	140
	Strawberry-bright	140
	Pride of Erin	143
	The Creature from the Black Lagoon	144
	A Memory	146
	The Sea Cucumber	148
	Insomnia	150
	Smallspace	152
	Stop	153
	Mrs. Noah Speaks from "Ark Voices"	154
	What Happened Next	159
	Jack Hope	161
	The Brassworker	163
	The Meat Works	165
	The Nineteen Thirties	167
	The Start of the Second World War	168
	Smalltown Memorials	169
	Anzac Park	171
	Tap	172
	The Bone	173
	Dancing Boy	175
	Retirement	178
	Another Thing	179
	A Migrant Woman Makes Her Choice	180
	Remembering the Rural Life 6	182
	Girl with a Bucket	183
	Cattle	185
	Kornelia Woloszczuk	186
	Bread	188
	The Burial Dress	189
	Funeral in Berlin	190
	Passenger on the Ferry	193
	Fox Fur	195
	The Year of the Foxes	196
	Properties of the Poet	198
	An Ordinary Communication	200
	The Red Gown	205
	Baby Cockatoos	206
	Shifting Camp	208
	Cutting a Track to Cardwell	210
	Staggering Man	212
	Hydrotherapy	217
	Pie in the Sky	219
	Them	224
	Piepoem	224
	Found Poem	225
	Whooshpack	226
	Neighbours	228
	Riverina Uncle	230
	Alter Ego	231
	Breakthrough	232
	Carnal Knowledge	233
	Lease of Life	234
	Artist Unknown	235
	Hypocritic Sponsorship	237
	Miscegenation	240
	Uncle Paddy	243
	Lover's Lament	244
	Holocaust Island	245
	Bitten	246
	The Dog Across the Street	246
	Tapestry	247
	Genocide	248
	Hold Your Breath	249
	Women's Liberation	251
	Blood	253
	Turtlign Child	254
	Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead	255
	Pea Picking	257
	Lamentations	261
	Something That Must Be Enquired Into	263
	Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989	265
	Some Newly-Discovered Prophecies of Nostradamus	267
	The Debate	269
	A Modern Leader	270
	Wine Tasting	271
	Take Heart My Neighbours!	273
	They're Dying Just the Same	273
	At Election Time: Grease and Oil Change	275
	The American Age	276
	Falcon Drinking	278
	Eating Out	283
	9 Midnight Thru Dawn from "Out Here"	287
	More Than 9 Lives from "Tiresias Sees"	292
	from "Akhenaten"	300
	from "The Mud Hut"	307
	Confession	312
	The Litanies of Julia Pastrana	325
	The Bones and the Song	330
	List of Poets and UQP Publications	333