| A Ball of Starlings | 11 |
| When They Want to Know What We Were Like | 13 |
| The Purging | 14 |
| All the Meteors | 15 |
| I Catch Sight of Them as I Often Do | 16 |
| The Longing | 17 |
| Away with the Birds | 18 |
| Just Then | 21 |
| The Hallway | 23 |
| The Blackbird | 24 |
| Tongs | 26 |
| When We Talk of What's Out There | 27 |
| Those Days | 28 |
| The Reed Bed | 29 |
| Only Just | 31 |
| The Task | 34 |
| Chalkey's Grave | 35 |
| Who is That? | 39 |
| A Warning | 40 |
| Sunday, 16 August 1998 | 42 |
| Alas | 43 |
| The West End | 44 |
| The Words | 46 |
| A Sober Night with Stars | 47 |
| Plants, Heavy with Berry | 48 |
| The Strange Impasse | 50 |
| The Whispering Shells | 51 |
| Walls | 55 |
| The Wall I Built | 57 |
| The Sky Road | 58 |
| What Happened at Noon? | 60 |
| A Breeze | 61 |
| The Cat | 63 |
| Larkin's Room in a Storm | 64 |
| One Minute with Eileen | 67 |
| Wonderers | 69 |
| Reaching the Rockies | 71 |
| Somerset Maugham on Bass with The Harp Jazz Band in Enniskillen | 74 |
| Father and Son | 76 |
| First Thing | 79 |