The thief of time / poems by Romuald Rudzki.

Who? -- Help -- Pens and people -- How we look -- Insecure blues -- What makes me feel this way? -- What the saints had to say -- The saints -- My need for poverty -- They wait for us -- Nick lies in Tamworth-in-Arden -- Out of the darkness and into the light (I) -- The God-botherers -- The seven deadly sins (saligia) -- Obsession -- Sleepless nights -- The next poem -- Out of the darkness and into the light (II) -- And vented air -- Worlds rotating -- The last things -- Who will then grind the corn? -- The next day -- To know the evil that is done -- The old ways -- The song of the soul -- My work -- Time to go to bed -- I have to go now -- Issues -- My father -- A place of safety -- My mother -- Self-medicated -- The leftovers -- "Teach me" -- Søren Kierkegaard -- And still I cannot sleep -- Time is passing -- A simple kindness -- The poetry shop -- Holding on -- A better way to be -- The last page.

The Alexander Turnbull Library has copy no. 6 in the N.Z. & Pacific Collection.