Heinrich Detering's new poems measure spatial and temporal distances, leading to Kilchberg and Capernaum, to Auerstedt and Lviv, to Texas and the Li River. They explore Elvis Presley's Graceland and follow Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to Weimar. In a supple artistry and a playful balance of comedy and sorrow, they question the places about their history: about the dead beneath the sod, about the possibility of happiness. Kilchberg daily faces different fears and always the same fear—the first, the last, the longest: that you won't be enough, that you are never enough, that your security is a lie, that you are lying, fear of open spaces, greed for your own place, the old terror at night, the next sentence in the morning.