TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS GAME?
5 HOW SPRING BLOOMS FORTH
6 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
8 WORTHY TO KILL
10 JOHANNES
13 AMERICA
14 OUR TASTY GRAPES
15 SOUR GRAPES
17 VARIATION ON A THEME BY F.L. HAMER
18 PALE PREDATORS
19 PRINTING IN BLACK, WHITE & BLUE
22 REMEMBRANCE
23 ENTOMOLOGICAL MUMBO JUMBO
24 PEER REVIEW
25 THE BODY-SNATCHERS: WILLIE’S TALE
27 TWENTY TWENTY-ONE
28 A PATRIMONY OF LAKES: LANIER
29 BLINDFOLD
30 THE SMILE UPSIDE-DOWN
31 WITH CARE I TEND THE GLADIOLUS
32 NINE-PATCH UNDONE
35 LONG-LEGGED BEAUTY & MORUGA SCORPION
37 THEY (2)
38 THE LETTER
40 IAGO’S PYRE
46 LOST INNOCENCE
47 ONE
48 GARDEN OF EDEN
49 AFTERWORD: ON POETRY