FALLING OFF CHAIRS

by Dennis List

Published by Original Books, New Zealand, 1996

CONTENTS

Expressing juice from even the driest moments

Chant of the blood and bone men

Black looks for Thomas Browne

How a poem is really written

An untrue story

Dead Dog Chant

Biscuit M is very hard

First song from the Anna d’A--- Museum

Some very private enterprise

Second song from the Anna d’A--- Museum

If I force you to re-enact my dreams

On Valentine’s day

An exchange

Sad little poems from Japan (No. 1)

An imaginary trip in search of follies

The shortest day of the year

All that you wear

Invaders of the head

An occupation

First clifftop poem (as on Suwanose-jima, after the eruption of 1813)

Thursday night thoughts

The yellow chair experiments

Chair-leaners’ champs

Hardly upset

Onto the floor at last

Second clifftop poem (as on Bandai San, after the eruption of 1888)

Seams

Shudder

Back on the slow greens

Painful knowledge

Deportation

Murderer

We have changed our address. Now it’s a different planet

A curious trunk is unzipped

Cloudbathing on the grave of Sam Parnell

Damp

Itself

Sad little poems from Japan (No. 2)

Pursuit into exile

Unloading my head in the cemetery

Third clifftop poem: Rescuing dots at Matsushima

Song of the concrete mixer

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