Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
SECTION I: MESSAGES
To Manage
Aurora Borealis
Propriety
Big Bend National Park Says No to All Walls
Time’s Low Note
Bully
Invocation
Bamboo Mind
Cross the Sea
To Babies
Songbook
Unsung—on Finding
Bundle
Little Lady, Little Nugget Brooms
Welcome What Comes
What Happens Next
Everything Changes the World
Standing Back
Three Hundred Goats
Lost People
Broken
Twilight
SECTION II: VOICES IN THE AIR
For Aziz
Sheep by the Sea, a painting by Rosa Bonheur (1865)
Emily
Warbler Woods
Gratitude Pillow
Life Loves
Getting Over It
Conversation with Grace Paley, Flight of the Mind Writing Workshop, Oregon
Showing Up
For Caroline M.
Tomorrow
After Listening to Paul Durcan, Ireland
We Will Get Lost in You
James Tate in Jerusalem
Train Across Texas
Longfellow’s Bed
Walt Whitman’s Revisions
“Rest and Be Kind, You Don’t Have to Prove Anything”
Peace Pilgrim’s Pocket
C. D. Stepped Out
True Success
Woven by Air, Texture of Air
Tell Us All the Gossip You Know
Every Day
One State
My Name Is . . .
Invitation to the NSA
Double Peace
Break the Worry Cocoon
The Tent
Please Sit Down
For the Birds
Bowing Candles
Black Car
SECTION III: MORE WORLDS
Mountains
Oh, Say Can You See
Anti-Inaugural
I Vote for You
Belfast
Summer
A Lonely Cup of Coffee
Reading Obituaries on the Day of the Giant Moon
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri
Your Answering Machine, After Your Death
Ring
Hummingbird
Next Time Ask More Questions
In Transit
Zen Boy
Where Do Poets Find Images?
Cell Phone Tower Disguised as a Tree
Before I Was a Gazan
Morning Ablution
What Do Palestinians Want?
Arabs in Finland
Ladders in Repose
The Gift
Voodoo Spoons
Barbershop
Getaway Car, United States, 2017
“Little Brother Shot Playing with Pistol”
Moment of Relief
Unbelievable Things
Airport Life
Texas, Out Driving
Missing the Boat, Take Two
All We Will Not Know
Loving Working
Stars Over Big Bend
United
Reserved for Poets
Her Father Still Watching
Small Basket of Happiness
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by Naomi Shihab Nye
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