Table of Contents
Introduction by Henri Cole: "Deep in the Mess of Things" xiii
Author's Note xxiii
I
1 Huffy Henry 3
2 Big Buttons, Cornets: the advance 4
3 A Stimulant for an Old Beast 5
4 Filling her compact & delicious body 6
5 Henry sats 7
6 A Capital at Wells 8
7 'The Prisoner of Shark Island' with Paul Muni 9
8 The weather was fine 10
9 Deprived of his enemy 11
10 There were strange gatherings 12
11 His mother goes 13
12 Sabbath 14
13 God bless Henry 15
14 Life, friends 16
15 Let us suppose 17
16 Henry's pelt 18
17 Muttered Henry 19
18 A Strut for Roethke 20
19 Here, whence 21
20 The Secret of the Wisdom 22
21 Some good people 23
22 Of 1826 24
23 The Lay of Ike 25
24 Oh servant Henry 26
25 Henry, edged 27
26 The glories of the world 28
II
27 The greens of the Ganges delta 31
28 Snow Line 32
29 There sat down, once 33
30 Collating bones 34
31 Henry Hankovitch 35
32 And where, friend Quo 36
33 An apple arc'd 37
34 My mother has your shotgun 38
35 MLA 9
36 The high ones die 40
37 Three around the Old Gentleman His malice 41
38 The Russian grin 42
39 Goodbye, sir 43
40 I'm scared a lonely 44
41 If we sang in the wood 45
42 O journeyer 46
43 'Oyez, oyez!' 47
44 Tell it to the forest fire 48
45 He stared at ruin 49
46 I am, outside. 50
47 April Fool's Day, or, St Mary of Egypt 51
48 He yelled at me in Greek 52
49 Blind 53
50 In a motion of night 54
51 Our wounds to time 55
III
52 Silent Song 59
53 He lay in the middle of the world 60
54 'NO VISITORS' 61
55 Peter's not friendly 62
56 Hell is empty 63
57 In a state of chottle sin 64
58 Industrious, affable 65
59 Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin 66
60 Afters eight years 67
61 Full moon 68
62 That dark-brown rabbit 69
63 Bats have no bankers 70
64 Supreme my holdings 71
65 A freaking ankle 72
66 'All virtues 73
67 I don't operate often 74
68 I heard, could be 75
69 Love her he doesn't 76
70 Disengaged, bloody 77
71 Spellbound 78
72 The Elder Presences 79
73 Karesansui, Ryoan-ji 80
74 Henry hates the world 81
75 Turning it over 82
76 Henry's Confession 83
77 Seedy Henry 84
