Horse with hat / Marty Smith ; collages by Brendan O'Brien.

Hat -- Dad's horses -- Tell the horses not to be angry -- You only made phone calls if someone was sick or dead or married -- Dracula -- Sheep shit and wool grease-- Dawn horses -- Because I am short-sighted the distance shimmers -- Reception -- No horse -- A mile here, a mile there -- To the 25 acres of bush behind our house -- We are allowed to visit at Christmas time -- I remember the cartoon face of my father -- Black Smith -- Creature -- Cúchulainn wins the Great Northern -- Speed -- Deaf -- Lot 165 -- Mummy's boy -- The homestead -- Fencing -- Passionfruit -- They weren't religious, or anything like that -- Agnus Dei -- He couldn't stand the sea, wouldn't go near it -- The back gate of Solway College, thirty years on -- Radar -- Each hour divests her of a garment -- Ratbaggery -- Where morality is -- They didn't pray -- Because children were very precious to them -- Children were very precious -- Precious to them -- You couldn't trust the Arab kids when you were in camp -- Emphysema for Aunty Gwen -- He went away with hair and came back bald -- Dementia for Uncle Charlie -- Denied the opportuntiy to go to war -- Three times, he crashes into the English Channel -- That was the thing, you couldn't find out what happened -- My father, the astronaut -- Until the night -- The glory of his nostrils is terrible.