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| Publisher's Note | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Extenuating Circumstances | |
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| poet becoming | |
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| marital song | |
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| sonnet of the hot flushes | |
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| writing ode | |
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| the men you were | |
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| my words of love | |
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| the day surrenders to its sadness | |
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| illness | |
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| morning tea | |
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| how do you say this | |
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| arrivals | |
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| ma will be late | |
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| transparency of the sole | |
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| for my daughter | |
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| for my son | |
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| extenuating circumstances | |
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| man and wife | |
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| as the tale was told | |
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| avowal | |
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| paternoster | |
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| The Lady as Allegory | |
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| Lady Anne Barnard at the Castle of Good Hope | |
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| "I think I am the first woman"- Lady Anne on Table Mountain | |
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| from the Castle at Cape of Good Hope | |
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| Lady Anne Barnard looks out on Table Bay | |
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| Lady Anne looks out again from the Castle of Good Hope | |
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| Lady Anne Barnard: remembered for her parties in my history book | |
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| Lady Anne paints a watercolour of the Mission at Genadendal | |
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| Lady Anne's inland diary | |
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| Lady Anne leaves the Cape | |
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| Lady Anne as guide because a hero needs a bard | |
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| Lady Anne to Andrew Barnard in the Cape | |
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| Andrew Barnard at the Cape to Lady Anne in London | |
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| Lady Anne in Wimpole | |
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| Lady Anne got back | |
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| neither family nor friends says Lady Anne | |
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| ending I | |
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| Colour Never Comes Alone | |
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| nine narratives from the stone-desert in 1999: | |
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| Grief Fanner of Eksteenfontein | |
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| Maria Johanna Domroch of Kubus | |
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| old nomadic movement patterns | |
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| goatfarmer oom Jakobus de Wet speaks poetry | |
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| the narrative of stone | |
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| on the banks of the Gariep river | |
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| narrative of a diamond sorter | |
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| narrative of another diamond sorter | |
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| the goats | |
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| /xam narratives (1873-1879): | |
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| the wind | |
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| what the stars say | |
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| eaten by a lion | |
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| the young man and the lion | |
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| translations of praise poems from African languages: | |
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| praise poem for Pheladi (P Mamogoho) | |
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| until you give me a drink of water (C T Msimang) | |
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| living the moons of the Pedi calendar | |
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| praise poem for Desmond and Leah Tutu on his eightieth birthday | |
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| Table Mountain rondeau in four parts | |
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| VernacularWhite | |
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| land | |
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| Bessie | |
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| every day I treat you as if you were mine | |
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| scar- | |
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| -tissue | |
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| lament | |
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| letter-poem lullaby for Ntombizana Atoo | |
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| toilet poem | |
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| nightmare of A Samuel born Krog | |
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| a one dimensional song for the northern Freestate, more specifically Middenspruit* | |
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| in transit-a cycle of the early nineties: | |
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| first Christmas weekend under the state of emergency 1988 | |
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| refused march at Kroonstad Monday 23 October 1989 | |
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| Brentpark march 1990 | |
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| 1992 | |
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| 1994 (before the election) | |
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| 1995 (after the election) | |
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| litany | |
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| some seasonal observations of Table Mountain | |
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| country of grief and grace: | |
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| between you and me | |
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| in the beginning is seeing | |
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| speechless I stand | |
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| because of you | |
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| this body bereft | |
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| what does one do with the old | |
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| but if the old is not guilty | |
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| becomings: | |
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| (Citadel) | |
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| (Beginning: Gor�e) | |
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| (Griot Songs) | |
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| (Griot's Story Told on the Niger) | |
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| (River: N'ger-n-gereo) | |
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| (Beverage) | |
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| (Boat) | |
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| (Free From the Tyranny of One) | |
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| (Poet Becoming) | |
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| Body Bereft | |
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| it is true | |
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| since | |
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| five menopausal sonnets: like death in my arms | |
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| bronze bull of Lavigny | |
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| short visit | |
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| hormone sonnet | |
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| God, Death, Love | |
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| leave me a lonely began | |
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| when tight is loose | |
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| softsift of the hourglass | |
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| some seasonal observations of Table Mountain | |
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| on my behalf | |