I. History -- 1935 -- Bats -- I don't know -- Scared, scarred, sacred -- Haunted -- Valley -- Storyteller -- II. "Just call me Aziz" II poems--titles by Aziz Shihab--from his notebooks. Everything in our world did not seem to fit -- My life before America had no toilet tissue -- We did not have drinking water in the middle of the ocean -- Is misery near Kansas, I asked -- Many asked me not to forget them -- A Kansas preacher called me muscleman -- I hate it, I love it -- When one is so far from home, life is a mix of fact and fiction -- Being back with the family is quite wonderful but terribly exhausting -- Member of the tribe -- Fifty years since I prayed or though in Arabic -- III. Knowing -- Dusk -- Thirsty -- Amir & Anna -- Mall aquarium, Dubai -- "The only democracy in the Middle East" -- War -- Maximum security -- Remembering William Stafford -- The burn -- Strict -- Real estate -- Tiny cucumbers -- Swerve -- Where are you now? -- Archive -- Won't you still love me when I'm dead? -- Hello, Palestine -- For Aziz, who loved Jerusalem -- Undone -- Love you love you love you -- Sandhill cranes at the Platte River -- IV. This year, I'll write with ash. Alive -- Moment -- The young poet of Winnipeg -- What will happen? -- Morning birds -- Lying while birdwatching -- Where were we? -- Dear mediator -- Eye contact with a squirrel -- Family love -- You are wanted in the office -- Dallas -- Muscat sundown -- Burlington, Vermont -- For Mutanabbi Street -- Mystery -- Endure -- V. Crossing the creek. -- Later -- Window -- Savigny platz -- Footstool -- Bleibtreustrasse 31 -- Last wishes -- Ringing -- Call to prayer -- Cinco de Mayo -- Chicho brothers fruit & vegetable #1 -- Chicho brothers fruit & vegetable #2 -- Frankly -- Father's day -- We can't lose -- Mom gives away your ties -- WAR is RAW backwards & forwards -- Able to say it -- Comfort -- "Bees see your face as a strange flower." -- At the Block Island ferry -- Wavelength.
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