| Preface | |
| Memorandum / Memorandum | 2 |
| Pluie / Rain | 6 |
| La fin de l'automne / The End of Autumn | 10 |
| Les mures / Ripe Blackberries | 14 |
| Le cageot / The Crate | 16 |
| La bougie / The Candle | 18 |
| La cigarette / The Cigarette | 20 |
| L'orange / The Orange | 22 |
| L'huitre / The Oyster | 26 |
| Les plaisirs de la porte / The Pleasures of the Door | 28 |
| Les arbres se defont a l'interieur d'une sphere de brouillard / The Trees Decompose in a Sphere of Fog | 30 |
| Le pain / Bread | 32 |
| Le cycle des saisons / The Cycle of Seasons | 34 |
| Le mollusque / The Mollusk | 36 |
| Escargots / Snails | 38 |
| Le papillon / The Butterfly | 46 |
| La mousse / Moss | 48 |
| Bords de mer / Seashores | 50 |
| De l'eau / Of Water | 56 |
| Le gymnaste / The Gymnast | 60 |
| Notes pour un coquillage / Notes Toward a Shellfish | 62 |
| Faune et flore / Fauna and Flora | 68 |
| La crevette / The Shrimp | 80 |
| Vegetation / Vegetation | 86 |
| Le galet / The Pebble | 90 |
| L'insignifiant / The Insignificant | 112 |
| Le chien / The Dog | 114 |
| Le pigeon / The Pigeon | 116 |
| Particularite des fraises / Specialty of Strawberries | 118 |
| L'adolescente / The Teen-Age Girl | 118 |
| Le maison paysanne / The Peasants' House | 120 |
| La derniere simplicite / The Ultimate Simplicity | 124 |
| Le grenier / The Granary | 126 |
| Le crottin / Dung | 128 |
| La grenouille / The Frog | 130 |
| Les poeles / Stoves | 132 |
| L'anthracite / Anthracite | 134 |
| La pomme de terre / The Potato | 138 |
| Moeurs nuptiales des chiens / Nuptial Habits of Dogs | 142 |
| Le lezard / The Lizard | 146 |
| La radio / The Radio | 154 |
| La valise / The Suitcase | 156 |
| La terre / The Earth | 158 |
| L'araignee / The Spider | 162 |
| Le cheval / The Horse | 170 |
| Les hirondelles / Swallows | 176 |
| La nouvelle araignee / The New Spider | 188 |
| L'abricot / The Apricot | 196 |
| "... Du vent!" / "... Just Wind!" | 200 |
| Notes | 213 |