The turn

1.    [What are you thinking? to Will never marry] I and I.
2.    [Will never marry to The beau présent and the belle absente] Elizabeth and the belle absente.
3.    [The beau présent and the belle absente to Don’t let him come back] He and the boy.
4.    [Don’t let him come back to Commotio cordis] The boy and he.
5.    [Commotio cordis to Drift] She and the inky black kirie of Musidora’s profile.
6.    [Drift to Le poinçonneur des Lilas] Le poinçonneur des Lilas and Serge Gainsbourg.
7.    [Le poinçonneur des Lilas to Amants du Pont Neuf] Serge Gainsbourg and Paris.
8.    [Amants du Pont Neuf to Amants du Pont Marie] Lovers on the Pont Neuf and a confused lover under the Pont Marie.
9.    [Amants du Pont Marie to Talaria] The lips he wishes for and the sender of the winged sandals.
10.    [Talaria to Ami, remplis mon verre] I and I again.
11.    [Ami, remplis mon verre to The endless landscape] Absinthe and vermouth.
12.    [The endless landscape to Super Myrio] Solitariness and isolation.
13.    [Super Myrio to Neither white-face nor auguste] A slapstick computer character and clowns.
14.    [Neither white-face nor auguste to The water in the well] Yvonne and the bottom of the well.
15.    [The water in the well to Yours] Love and possession and/or surrender.
16.    [Yours to The sleeping giant’s v] You and the wearer of a black chiffon dress.
17.    [The sleeping giant’s v to What are you looking for? #2] An abence and the reparation of an absence.
18.    [What are you looking for? #2 to The moonlight on the garden] You and she.
19.    [The moonlight on the garden to Peace lilies] Rust.
20.    [Peace lilies to Surface] Water.
21.    [Surface to Asylum] Water and the mill pond and the wheel churning it.
22.    [Asylum to Strike up matches, watch them burn] What’s inside the barely perceptible cracks: secrets.
23.    [Strike up matches, watch them burn to Provenance] My early twenties – the time I first read the ‘sundowner’ quote, written on the title page of a pamphlet called ‘The burning of the leaves and other poems’ by Laurence Binyon, given to me as a birthday present; inside she had placed some pressed leaves.  I’ve held the line in my heart ever since – so that it almost feels like the place I come from – but she never attributed it, and though subsequently I think she told me it was Machado de Assis, over the years I’ve come to doubt my memory.
24.    [Provenance to Much, much more important than that] The gift of all travel and the denial of it.
25.    [Much, much more important than that to The green room] The moments after jealousy and the moments before it strikes.
26.    [The green room to Sacrament] The tickling of fronts and the clawing of arms and the tickling of fonts and the clawing of apses.
27.    [Sacrament to Vale of tears] A dream of ecstasy and a dream of escape, featuring the same characters.
28.    [Vale of tears to The epistolary ambulance] Escape from two different kinds of labyrinth.
29.    [The epistolary ambulance to The Passion] A passionate save and thoughts on passion.
30.    [The Passion to The gift of all travel] Passion come to fruition.
31.    [The gift of all travel to In the afternoon] Passion in a caravan, passion wherever they meet.
32.    [In the afternoon to In the evening] The evening of the day of the afternoon.
33.    [In the evening to The archivist] Another constraint of time, another instance of passion.
34.    [The archivist to The taste] Between ‘The archivist’ and ‘The taste’, the sweetest link of all.
35.    [The taste to Finger spin] Tongues spun, then fingers did.
36.    [Finger spin to The Seven Seas] Cricket and football.
37.    [The Seven Seas to Follow] A woman following a man followed by a man following a woman.
38.    [Follow to Jacket of steam] Following, and another kind of choreography.
39.    [Jacket of steam to Metaphysical] The glassblower’s furnace, and the lovers’.
40.    [Metaphysical to The wireless age] Sex, and more sex.
41.    [The wireless age to Black Ven] Moonlight.
42.    [Black Ven to By every hospital, a boneyard] From ghosts to the graveyard.
43.    [By every hospital, a boneyard to Fly agaric] More flora and fauna.
44.    [Fly agaric to Flyin’ shoes] From shoes flyin’ over common to a song called ‘Flyin’ shoes’.
45.    [Flyin’ shoes to Running on empty] And back again.
46.    [Running on empty to The hazards of love] An omen in the form of a black dog and the omen presented by a dead blackbird.
47.    [The hazards of love to Caryatids] The Greek goddess of Fortune and the Greek Revival.
48.    [Caryatids to Touch-typing #1] From speed consulting to speed typing.
49.    [Touch-typing #1 to Touch-typing #2] A second shift of touch-typing.
50.    [Touch-typing #2 to Full moon] The exquisiteness of night-time touch.
51.    [Full moon to Sharing an ear] We had the moon, we had the moon.
52.    [Sharing an ear to North and south] From sharing an ear to sharing other parts of the body.
53.    [North and south to The long way round] Noses and scents.
54.    [The long way round to The gift of all travel #2] Simplicity faced with complexity gives way to simplicity.
55.    [The gift of all travel #2 to The wireless age #2] Two kinds of Christmas.
56.    [The wireless age #2 to The wireless age #3: Bubbles] Christmas gives way to new year.
57.    [The wireless age #3: Bubbles to Act of enclosure] Separation, a kind of cage, an act of enclosure.
58.    [Act of enclosure to Boundary rider] Something finite contrasted with something infinite.
59.    [Boundary rider to A taste of love] The result of a journey made for her; milk followed by honey.
60.    [A taste of love to Birdman] Abandonment to sweetness, then to the wind; or, from bees to birds.
61.    [A taste of love to Cat with wings] Gods with wings.
62.    [Cat with wings to Dog with two heads] Or monsters and freaks.
63.    [Dog with two heads to Pestle and mortar] From bestial to culinary ecstasy.
64.    [Pestle and mortar to Short longshot pome] Poetic commentary on the previous poem.
65.    [Short longshot pome to Bracken and gorse] An attempt at something metrically simple.
66.    [Bracken and gorse to The wireless age #4: The sensation of orgasm] Want and need, need and want.
67.    [The wireless age #4: The sensation of orgasm to The gift of all travel #3: The beach] From orgasm to orgasm.
68.    [The gift of all travel #3: The beach to Provenance – io sui ici en liu dami amo] Lovers, and a lovers’ brooch.
69.    [Provenance – io sui ici en liu dami amo to Breathless] A thirteenth century present from a lover, and two presents given in the 21st century but dating from previous ones.
70.    [Breathless to Provenance – Just one second] A fiction called Confusion and a quote from it.
71.    [Provenance – Just one second to The wireless age #5: Lamplight] One magical second, and many more than one.
72.    [The wireless age #5: Lamplight to The wireless age #6: Everyday acts of intimacy] The night before the morning; the morning after the night before.
73.    [The wireless age #6: Everyday acts of intimacy to Memory tray] The morning after the night before; once again, the night before that morning.
74.    [Memory tray to Mobile communication let me down again] The same mobile phone.
75.    [Mobile communication let me down again to We have all the time in the world] Running past the Lugger and dining inside it.
76.    [We have all the time in the world to The book of St. Albans] Eating out and eating in, and what was seen from each table.
77.    [The book of Saint Albans #1 to In case you forget ever] The running themes of birds and running.
78.    [In case you forget ever to Firedog] We’ll sweep out the ashes in the morning.
79.    [Firedog to Claw picker] Love burning, love being demolished.
80.    [Claw picker to Provenance: Hidden cities] Lives within lives and Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities.
81.    [Provenance: Hidden cities to The Parw Elbbub Bubble Wrap Co.] A painting of a bird and two paintings of horses.
82.    [The Parw Elbbub Bubble Wrap Co. to Homing pigeons and Chinese lanterns] Flying objects; the kite to which she compares herself and a succession of Chinese lanterns.
83.    [Homing pigeons and Chinese lanterns to Digiscope] The would-be birder and a real one.
84.    [Digiscope to Talisman] The view from one part of the coast and a stone picked from another.
85.    [Talisman to Fairy ring] From a talismanic stone to a magical ring of possibly malevolent influence.
86.    [Fairy ring to Under the trees] Not far from the fairy ring, these trees stand.
87.    [Under the trees to Estuary bed] The torments of jealousy and the unpredictability of love.
88.    [Estuary bed to The sky’s the limit] Cloaked and hidden, my heart is so often in the sky.
89.    [The sky’s the limit to Mother of pearl] Hearts and the keepsakes that stand for them.  And birds, always birds.
90.    [Mother of pearl to Learning to say goodbye] Living starlings and a dead siskin.
91.    [Learning to say goodbye to Tunnel vision] The dead siskin and a dream of a bird with a peacock blue breast.
92.    [Tunnel vision to The wireless age #8: The unstoppable force and the immoveable object] Looking down the wrong end of a telescope, and then through the right end.
93.    [The wireless age #8: The unstoppable force and the immoveable object to Quarters of the whole] The give and take between reality and fantasy, times two.
94.    [Quarters of the whole to Xerophytic] The word particular and the woman it describes.
95.    [Xerophytic to Bad company] Loneliness and on being alone.
96.    [Bad company to Silence] The link here is silence, obviously.
97.    [Silence to The gift of all travel #4: Mythos] The promise of happier moments delivered.
98.    [The gift of all travel #4 to Strange she is, and secret] The cooking and the serving of food.
99.    [Strange she is, and secret to The last question] The man sitting at the desk could easily be the man struggling with the last question.
100.    [The last question to Awe] Two kinds of awe.