Contents
Far Villages
Manniquins
Kafka
The Next Village
Big Brother Loses His Virginity
Fresh Fish
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
Don Quixote
Metaphors
Translating a Poem
The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth
Plum
Wisdom
The Orange Flags of Babylon
The Orange Flags of Babylon
Learning to Eat a Pomegranate
The Yellow Bird
Picasso
The Headless Saints
The Amateur Zen Master
Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem
The Island of Nirvana
Rain
The Dreams of Children
Trains
The Long Road
The Bible Belt
The Bible Belt
The Gods
The Ladders of Purgatory
Drawing Jesus
Jesus's IQ
Seduction
The Jewish Ghetto
Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah
Om
Zero
Halo
The House of Death
Paris
The Bedouins of Paris
Spring in Paris
Lucifer
The Kissing Institute
Pornography
French Forign Legion
Gertrude Stein's Gardener
Dying Park
The Gates of Paris
An American in Paris
Paris, USA
The Floating Bridge
The Floating Bridge
Making a Forest
A Visit with Dali
North Wind
Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890
Learning Italian Slowly
A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago
Chinese Restaurant
Welcome Home, Children
The History of the Umbrella
While I Sleep
The Fish
Acknowledgements