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If I Could Write Like Tolstoy 3 How to Light a Cigarette 4 and Pierre? 5 Tolstoy’s Dog 6 Fragment 7 To the Trees 8 Mulberry Tree 10 Espalier 11 Something About Being a Plant Without Any Light 12 So Many Houses 13 and those Walls Came into Our Game 14 and the Sea Got into Your Hair 16 Breaking Things 17 Buster Keaton 18 Poems 19 Somewhere 20 The Lesson 21 Turner 23 Direction 25 Cove 26 How to Catch a God 28 Sisters 30 The Banker’s Daughter – Allan Ramsay 1759 31 Daughter 33 The Falling 35 Cows 37 Waiting for My Life to Begin 39 Pigeon 40 Fence 41 TheHalf-Loved 42 The Thorn and the Grass 43