A collection of poems whose topics range from the nightmare paintings of Bosch and Breughel to the findings of modern science, on which subject Holub is a specialist in the field of immunology. He also wrote "`The Dimension of the Present Moment' and Other Essays" and "Vanishing Lung Syndrome".
The titular poem is one of the greatest perspective-setting works I have ever read, and I often return to it in hard times. The rest of the collection is a wonderful series of meditations on life, death, history and the author's other career as a microbiologist.