Contents
“the best way out is always through” —Robert Frost
Ash
The Chill
The Honeymoon Cruise
Matrimony
Each day
Affairs
Vision
This Is How We Love
# 1
Fault Lines
#2
Freedom
#3
What Slides inside the Throat
Illusion
#4
Ask Her Any Question and She Will Answer Like Glass
#5
The Art of . . .
Help Her Leave
#6
Sanctuary
“Where is the life we have lost in living?”—T. S. Eliot
The House on Stilt Legs
Lost in Trinidad
Buried Stories
Pickles and Donuts
The Prince
Best Friend
The Rosetta Stone
At Journey’s End Resort
Dream Labyrinth
Rearrangement
At the Temple of Bloomingdale
How Hard Is It to Write a Love Song?
Yellow to Blue
Because
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”—Mark Twain
Footnotes of a Sour Savior
The Circle
The Green of Iran
I Am Neda
Rajkowska’s Palm in the Land of Auschwitz
The Exiles
We Suckle on Fantasies
Coming Home
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
Prelude
2nd Movement
3rd Movement
4th Movement
5th Movement
6th Movement
Notes on “Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths: A Nowruz Sonata in Seven Movements”
Acknowledgments