The opening poem --

the song of the cockroach (1) --

autumn evening --

dark blossom --

dreams are wounds as well --

sleep little beloved --

crucifixion --

the butterfly and the snail --

the withering of the state --

rebel song --

as of wings --

mountain prison --

poem on toilet paper --

time --

like a baboon --

awake after weeks --

black memory --

mene mene tekel --

revelation --

the lament --

island (1) --

island (2) --

the request --

en etat de mourir --

when you are old --

the poem of wisdom --

John's night --

bird farm --

today I went down --

another country --

snow in a foreign night --

after Celan --

then thaw --

the opening of the mouth ritual --

visiting the forefather's grave at Bac Giang, 4 December 1995 --

reading Li Bai --

hand paper --

snow in Paris --

first light --

the bridegroom's riding song --

old light --

death in the poem --

in many countries at early dusk --

sorrow heart --

Zibal --

the telling --

Urda --

Ithaka --

une vie sans ailleurs --

the song of the cockroach (2).