A room of waiting -- Two haiku and a tanka: clouds, whiff, stars -- Cesario's song -- Third floor, city lights -- Big Ben -- The sound of a city (Ramadhan) -- Hong Kong haiku April 2003 -- On listening to Loreena McKennitt's "The mystic's dream" -- On 25 June 2004-3:30 am, with "Dreams" playing in the background -- Confession at compline -- Dead south -- Girl betrothed -- Declaration of human likes -- Manchild -- Daughter of the wall -- Virtuosity -- Sun in my eyes -- These embers -- Song to Prufrock -- My dark night -- Wind chimes -- A meditation on smoke -- Under a lamppost -- Pried -- Yours -- Empty -- You -- Keep my spirit -- Froze -- Song for the lovelorn and foolish -- The 3 a.m. habit -- The last notebbok -- An afternoon of loss -- Leaving party -- Milk -- Poem by texting -- Commas for Beattie, dashes for Nin -- Thinking about your window, 7 July 2004 -- Thoughts over a glass of banana milkshake, 2 July 2004 -- Someone on the sidewalk -- Zero visibility -- Stalker Juliet -- Stasis, in situ -- Stillness.