Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Clearing the Campground vii
3. Contents xi
4. Matters Tremendously
5. Boom Boom 2
6. Matters Tremendously 3
7. Breath of Time (it means nothing) 5
8. The Beetle, the Mouse, You, Me 7
9. J’s pudding 9
10. Goodbye Soul 10
11. This Master, This Mistress 12
12. Their Little Necks Are Broken 14
13. So and So 16
14. Little House Upon the Beach 18
15. Adieu My Darling 20
16. Stay a while, Stay 23
17. Wish-wash 24
18. J Arriving 26
19. Love’s Anaesthesia 28
20. Rough Notebook
21. Because there were no lilacs— 32
22. Johanna 34
23. God Takes the Frog’s Song— 36
24. With a Small Sliver of Moon— 38
25. Softly, gently— 40
26. Tired of Tigers
27. Tired of Tigers 42
28. Pantomime of the Sea 45
29. The Hedgehog Hides his Prickly Head 48
30. Doo-Da-Doo-Da When the Aloe Blooms 50
31. When the Aloe Blooms 52
32. Through the Chestnut Leaves 54
33. All that is Silent 55
34. J Arriving II 57
35. Spring, maniac, maniac 59
36. Again my darling, Again— 61
37. The Terrible Silence of Light 63
38. Let us be tender; let us be kind 65
39. Where I Lay Down My Head 67
40. I Would, I Could a Crocodile: Notes for Virginia 69
41. Kat Among the Tigers 75
42. Acknowledgements 77
43. Note on Sources 81