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Tables of Contents for The Gift
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
1
6
Introduction: The Life and Work of Hafiz
7
14
One STARTLED BY GOD
21
11
Startled by God
21
1
Let's Eat
22
1
When the Violin
23
1
Looking for Good Fish
24
2
A Hunting Party
26
1
This Sane Idea
27
1
We Have Not Come to Take Prisoners
28
1
I Can See Angels
29
1
You're It
30
1
I Rain
31
1
Two I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH
32
11
I Have Learned So Much
32
1
God Just Came Near
33
1
The Sun Never Says
34
1
The Seed Cracked Open
35
1
Why Just Ask the Donkey
36
2
Who Wrote All the Music
38
1
Your Mother and My Mother
39
1
Mismatched Newlyweds
40
1
Your Seed Pouch
41
1
That Magnificent Storm
42
1
Three REMOVING THE SHOE FROM THE TEMPLE
43
14
Removing the Shoe from the Temple
43
2
Against My Own Hand
45
1
Out of This Mess
46
1
If God Invited You to a Party
47
1
To Build a Swing
48
1
A Crystal Rim
49
1
This One Is Mine
50
1
Curfews
51
1
The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish
52
4
An Infant in Your Arms
56
1
Four I HOLD THE LION'S PAW
57
14
I Hold the Lion's Paw
57
2
If the Falling of a Hoof
59
2
What the Hell
61
1
Someone Untied Your Camel
62
2
When I Want to Kiss God
64
1
For a Single Tear
65
1
That Shapes the Eye
66
1
So Many Gifts
67
2
Love Is the Funeral Pyre
69
1
Allah, Allah, Allah
70
1
Five DON'T DIE AGAIN
71
12
Don't Die Again
71
2
Like a Life-Giving Sun
73
1
The Great Work
74
1
Effacement
75
1
Some Fill with Each Good Rain
76
1
The Vintage Man
77
1
Everywhere
78
1
Lifts beyond Conception
79
2
God's Bucket
81
1
Just Looking for Trouble
82
1
Six THE GIFT
83
12
The Gift
83
1
Laughing at the Word Two
84
1
Life Starts Clapping
85
1
The Foundation for Greatness
86
1
Courteous to the Ant
87
1
His Winter Crop
88
2
The Scent of Light
90
1
No Conflict
91
1
Stop Calling Me a Pregnant Woman
92
2
A Strange Feather
94
1
Seven I AM REALLY JUST A TAMBOURINE
95
16
I Am Really Just a Tambourine
95
1
The Stairway of Existence
96
1
What Do White Birds Say
97
2
How Do I Listen?
99
1
The Earth Braces Itself
100
2
The Difference Between
102
5
The Angels Know You Well
107
1
Crooked Deals
108
1
The Millstone's Talents
109
1
Let Thought Become Your Beautiful Lover
110
1
Eight GET THE BLAME STRAIGHT
111
16
Get the Blame Straight
111
2
Rewards for Clear Thinking
113
2
Please
115
1
This Constant Yearning
116
1
The Sad Game
117
1
That Regal Coat
118
1
Stop Being So Religious
119
1
Friends Do Things Like This
120
1
It Felt Love
121
1
Look! I Am a Whale
122
1
Two Bears
123
1
The Sky Hunter
124
1
Forgive the Dream
125
2
Nine THE PRETTIEST MULE
127
13
The Prettiest Mule
127
1
Today
128
1
Wise Men Keep Talking About
129
2
Back into Herself
131
1
The Mule Got Drunk and Lost in Heaven
132
2
Why Abstain?
134
1
The Warrior
135
1
Dividing God
136
2
I Saw Two Birds
138
1
Muhammad's Twin
139
1
Ten TINY GODS
140
10
Tiny Gods
140
2
This Union
142
1
When You Can Endure
143
1
This Talking Rag
144
1
Who Will Feed My Cat?
145
1
Burglars Hear Watchdogs
146
1
A Still Cup
147
1
That Lamp That Needs No Oil
148
1
Too Wonderful
149
1
Eleven ELEPHANT WONDERING
150
12
Elephant Wondering
150
1
An Old Musician
151
1
The Fish and I Will Chat
152
1
The Heart Is Right
153
1
Out of God's Hat
154
3
The Clay Bowl's Destiny
157
1
I Hope You Won't Sue This Old Man
158
1
Faithful Lover
159
1
Now Is the Time
160
2
Twelve COUNTING MOLES
162
11
Counting Moles
162
1
Hafiz
163
1
The Body a Tree
164
1
A Great Need
165
1
There Could Be Holy Fallout
166
2
Trying to Wear Pants
168
1
This Sky
169
1
It Is Unanimous
170
1
Two Puddles Chatting
171
1
His Ballet Company
172
1
Thirteen REVERENCE
173
10
Reverence
173
1
That Tree We Planted
174
1
I Vote for You for God
175
1
A One-Story House
176
1
The Great Religions
177
1
What Happens to the Guest
178
2
I Want Both of Us
180
1
Like Passionate Lips
181
1
Cucumbers and Prayers
182
1
Fourteen A CUSHION FOR YOUR HEAD
183
16
A Cushion for Your Head
183
1
These Beautiful Love Games
184
1
The Bag Lady
185
1
The Ambience of Love
186
1
Tired of Speaking Sweetly
187
2
A Root in Each Act and Creature
189
2
Our Hearts Should Do This More
191
1
Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here
192
2
Imagination Does Not Exist
194
1
Throw Me on a Scale
195
1
The Hatcheck Girl
197
1
Damn Thirsty
198
1
Fifteen TWO GIANT FAT PEOPLE
199
11
Two Giant Fat People
199
1
Scratching My Back
200
1
If You Don't Stop That
201
1
Elegance
202
1
A Hole in a Flute
203
1
Until
204
1
Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks?
205
1
Dropping Keys
206
1
All the Talents of God
207
1
The Great Expanse
208
1
I Imagine Now for Ages
209
1
Sixteen SPICED MANNA
210
12
Spiced Manna
210
2
A Hard Decree
212
1
And For No Reason
213
1
Sometimes I Say to a Poem
214
1
The Suburbs
215
1
She Responded
216
1
We Might Have to Medicate You
217
1
The Idiot's Warehouse
218
1
When You Wake
219
1
This Teaching Business Isn't Easy
220
1
The Mountain Got Tired of Sitting
221
1
Seventeen WHERE IS THE DOOR TO THE TAVERN?
222
14
Where Is the Door to the Tavern?
222
1
Becoming Human
223
2
In Need of the Breath
225
2
The Heart's Coronation
227
1
The Thousand-Stringed Instrument
228
1
Then Winks
229
1
And Then You Are
230
1
The Intelligent Man
231
1
The Chorus in the Eye
232
2
Find a Better Job
234
1
The Lute Will Beg
235
1
Eighteen WHEN THE SUN CONCEIVED A MAN
236
14
When the Sun Conceived a Man
236
3
A Mime
239
2
The Quintessence of Loneliness
241
2
Needing a Mirror
243
1
Zikr
244
2
The Tender Mouth
246
1
Greeting God
247
1
Reaching Toward the Millet Fields
248
2
Nineteen LOUSY AT MATH
250
11
Lousy at Math
250
2
The Sun in Drag
252
1
Between Our Poles
253
1
Stay Close to Those Sounds
254
1
An Invisible Pile of Wood
255
1
It Has Not Rained Light
256
1
Berserk
257
1
No More Leaving
258
1
Wow
259
1
What Should We Do about That Moon?
260
1
Twenty CUPPING MY HANDS LIKE A MOUNTAIN VALLEY
261
9
Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley
261
8
Why Not Be Polite
269
1
Twenty-one THE GOD WHO ONLY KNOWS FOUR WORDS
270
14
The God Who Only Knows Four Words
270
1
You Were Brave in That Holy War
271
2
Bring the Man to Me
273
3
Too Beautiful
276
1
My Eyes So Soft
277
1
The Diamond Takes Shape
278
1
That Does Perish
279
1
Chain You to My Body
280
1
Covers Her Face with Both Hands
281
1
Dog's Love
282
2
Twenty-two STAY WITH US
284
13
Stay with Us
284
2
I Am Full of Love Tonight
286
2
Many Lives Ago
288
1
It Will Stretch Out Its Leg
289
2
Some of the Planets Are Hosting
291
2
What Is the Root?
293
1
The Same Suntan
294
1
For Three Days
295
2
Twenty-three A CLEVER PIECE OF MUTTON
297
12
A Clever Piece of Mutton
297
1
Who Can Hear the Buddha Sing?
298
2
Buttering the Sky
300
1
How Fascinating
301
1
Where Great Lions Love to Piss
302
1
A Potent Lover
303
1
An Astronomical Question
304
1
I Wish I Could Speak Like Music
305
1
In a Circus Booth
306
1
Maybe Even Lucrative
307
1
Troubled
308
1
Twenty-four THE SILK MANDALA
309
11
The Silk Mandala
309
1
A Forest Herb
310
1
Your Camel Is Loaded to Sing
311
1
Stealing Back the Flute
312
1
Where the Drum Lost Its Mind
313
2
Every City Is a Dulcimer
315
2
Ruin
317
1
Between Your Eye and This Page
318
1
Practice This New Birdcall
319
1
Twenty-five I KNOW I WAS THE WATER
320
I Know I Was the Water
320
2
With That Moon Language
322
1
Without Brushing My Hair
323
1
Integrity
324
1
There
325
1
When Space Is Not Rationed
326
1
Birds of Passage
327
1
Act Great
328
1
The Only Material
329
1
I Got Kin
330
1
Only One Rule
331
1
Your Thousand Limbs
332
1
And Love Says
333