Today is the Piano's Birthday.

Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- Contents -- The final arrangement -- Predicament -- Story as old as wood -- Paschal transfiguration -- Stories &amp -- storytelling -- Between the acts, &amp -- nightfall -- That, 'plays her' -- Ecclesiastical 'body count' -- Tuition -- Anarchists' Sunday Morning -- Composition in glass, for -- The Measure -- 'And my father asked why God was giving him hell' -- The Explanation -- The articulate suicide, Socrates or Seneca, is rare -- One old man -- Stonepoem -- Identities -- Spring rite, ritual observed -- Out of the Small -- Undiminished -- How it is, waiting/Ithaka -- Inside the lining of -- Signs -- The 'opening' -- Freud and a Lady in Vienna -- Compleynt, returneth -- Anecdotal aesthetics in Athens -- Pace, Voltaire: question &amp -- reply -- A kindëly song for the times -- 'A pair of red stilts' -- Presentiment on how . . . -- The Nannies are Coming! -- Ein Programm sonnet for the 21st century -- The Song of the Knife -- 1st April/Fool's Day -- 'One Kind of Solution' -- The witness chair -- 'Dog Days' -- Analogue -- Brief History of the Jackboot -- Interrogation -- Contemplating the letter O -- Pages -- Conjuror -- The Conversation of Things -- Not Less by Dreaming More -- Devotion to the Small -- Mannequin 'connection' on Hermes St -- All the Gods Gone Over -- Notes.

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