The Surreptitious Poet 3 Sicily 1860 4 A Valediction to Valedictions 5 Mistaken Identity 6 Tea at The Phoenix 7 `Xanadu’ 8 Old Shoes 9 The Ceiling at the Villa Cordellina 10 The Owl 11 Art 12 Wait 13 The Young Are Immortal 14 English Teacher 15 Swift and Pope 16 Old Books 17 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection 18 Sharon 19 New Year 20 Later 21 The Fire 22 Family Graves 23 Herefordshire Monuments 24 Getting Better 27 Schoolchildren at the Bacon Show 28 Beyond Reach 29 Birthday Memory 30 Creation after Chagall 31 Tuscan Scenes: Carmignano and Prato 32 Riddle 33 The Ancientness of Things 34 The Hyphen 35 Seagull 36 Lovers 37 Deep Lanes 38 Kin 39 Snow on the Beach 40 In the Hotel Room 41 Downsizing 42 Backache 43 Carpe Diem 44 52nd Wedding Anniversary 45 The Fourteenth Waltz 46 The Gate 47 New Year 2017 48 II Stations of the Cross 51 III In the Luxembourg Gardens 57 Hunting Horn 58 Footsteps 59 Symbolism 60 Sigh 61