CONTENTS
I. THE OCCUPATION, 2001
The Picture Tin
Salam Alaikum
A Secret Life in Misspelled Cities
words by which to tell time
Mariposa
A Recovery of the Disappeared
washee / was she
come baby
Retreat
Zuihitsu for the New Diaspora
II. THE PASSING, 2016
Just Before 88-30 51st Avenue
Typical Fish
Rattling
On the two-legged thread of Florida’s 717
Jan / Jahan
Facsimile
III. THE SEPARATION, 2009
Begin
Two Mountains
Brink
Grasping
A Separation
IV. THE BIRTH, 2018
Reckoning
night nursing
the great green field
Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues
a language entirely
How Do You Laugh in Dari?
V. AFTER OCTOBER
counterparts
the dream is that language
Notebreaths
Notes
Acknowledgments