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Over there Ten minutes on a Sunday morning in July 51 56 You never were much good at physics 57 Breakfast 58 Love and stories of love If he’d been called Jesse Letters to Tom 59 60 61 Really, there’s nothing 64 A man with no power 66 Fast asleep 67 Odd calculus On fire 68 69 Whipped cream Do you love yourself like this 70 71 Hotel Rwanda, 1 January 2006 Praise poem: I saw you coming towards me 73 75 Mnemonics 82 A child can’t be born 84 In Cameroon, August 2005 85 The pool attendant at the First International Inn in Limbé 87 The quality of postcards 88 Elaine’s garden 89 Three meditations on immortality 94 Three meditations on Why is there war, Mummy? 95 The last threshold 96 The passivity of the spectator must be countered at all costs 97 This is the bit where you live 98 Literary biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet 99 Out on the ocean 100 Closer than this – extracts from a source book for urban planners And on the eighth day 101 Connected The things that survive are the things that survive Statistics South Africa says Unplace City streets To love it Typology The urban planner ruminates 102 103 104 106 107 108 109 110
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Uses of useful plants The one who dies Tango for person and city Deer on the freeway Riffs for the caring girl Great and true Phendukani Silwani Poem for which there was no title Folk dancing for beginners He sets the tone So where were you The laws of physics are inviolable Take your places Where to from here? The coastline seems endless It goes like this You are here Balancing Acknowledgements and notes 113 114 115 121 122 126 127 131 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 147

Over there

Ten minutes on a Sunday morning in July

51

56

You never were much good at physics

57

Breakfast

58

Love and stories of love

If he’d been called Jesse

Letters to Tom

59

60

61

Really, there’s nothing

64

A man with no power

66

Fast asleep

67

Odd calculus

On fire

68

69

Whipped cream

Do you love yourself like this

70

71

Hotel Rwanda, 1 January 2006

Praise poem: I saw you coming towards me

73

75

Mnemonics

82

A child can’t be born

84

In Cameroon, August 2005

85

The pool attendant at the First International Inn in Limbé 87 The quality of postcards 88 Elaine’s garden 89 Three meditations on immortality 94 Three meditations on Why is there war, Mummy? 95 The last threshold 96 The passivity of the spectator must be countered at all costs 97 This is the bit where you live 98 Literary biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet 99 Out on the ocean 100 Closer than this – extracts from a source book for urban planners And on the eighth day

101

Connected

The things that survive are the things that survive

Statistics South Africa says

Unplace

City streets

To love it

Typology

The urban planner ruminates

102

103

104

106

107

108

109

110

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