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Index
Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Dedication On Rumi A Note on the Organization of This Book Selected Poems
1. The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home
ON THE TAVERN Who Says Words with My Mouth? We have a huge barrel of wine A Community of the Spirit There’s a strange frenzy in my head Drunks fear the police A Children’s Game Gone, inner and outer The wine we really drink The Many Wines Special Plates Burnt Kabob The New Rule This that is tormented
2. Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say
ON BEWILDERMENT I Have Five Things to Say Acts of Helplessness Saladin’s Begging Bowl Late, by myself Does sunset sometimes look Be Melting Snow The Fragile Vial Where Are We? The Friend comes into my body There is a light seed grain Do you think I know
3. Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air
ON SILENCE The Reed Flute’s Song A Thirsty Fish Enough Words? This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness Quietness Sanai A Just-Finishing Candle Craftsmanship and Emptiness Emptiness When you are with everyone but me No Flag The Food Sack The Night Air Only Breath There is a way between voice
4. Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy
ON SPRING GIDDINESS Spring Where Everything Is Music A Great Wagon Today, like every other day Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing The breeze at dawn I would love to kiss you Daylight, full of small dancing particles They try to say what you are Come to the orchard in Spring Spring Is Christ Shreds of Steam The Steambath The Ground Cries Out Unfold Your Own Myth Not a Day on Any Calendar Flutes for Dancing The Shape of My Tongue The Grasses The Sheikh Who Played with Children Let the lover be disgraceful All day and night, music
5. Feeling Separation: Don’t Come Near Me
ON SEPARATION Sometimes I Forget Completely A Man and a Woman Arguing A night full of talking that hurts An Empty Garlic The Diver’s Clothes Lying Empty Red Shirt My Worst Habit Don’t let your throat tighten Dissolver of Sugar Pale sunlight
6. Controlling the Desire-Body: How Did You Kill Your Rooster, Husam?
ON THE DESIRE-BODY Sexual Urgency, What a Woman’s Laughter Can Do, and the Nature of True Virility Tattooing in Qazwin The Center of the Fire Someone who goes with half a loaf The mystery does not get clearer Muhammad and the Huge Eater Fasting Bismillah Wean Yourself After the Meditation The Dog in the Doorway The light you give off Tending Two Shops Think that you’re gliding out
7. Sohbet: Meetings on the Riverbank
ON SOHBET Talking in the Night Talking Through the Door A Mouse and a Frog The Long String The Force of Friendship The Vigil Two Friends The Servant Who Loved His Prayers Imra’u ’l-Qays All Rivers at Once The Blocked Road A Babbling Child Who sees inside from outside? Constant Conversation Bonfire at Midnight In Between Stories The Question The Music I saw you last night in the gathering The Tent Friend, our closeness is this Listen to presences
8. Being a Lover: The Sunrise Ruby
ON BEING A LOVER The Sunrise Ruby Water from Your Spring You Sweep the Floor Each Note Granite and Wineglass Buoyancy Music Master When I am with you The minute I heard my first love story We are the mirror as well as the face I want to hold you close Someone Digging in the Ground The Phrasing Must Change The Guest House
9. The Pickaxe: Getting to the Treasure Beneath the Foundation
ON THE PICKAXE Who Makes These Changes? Why Wine Is Forbidden On Resurrection Day The Dream That Must Be Interpreted The Pickaxe Zikr The Core of Masculinity I honor those who try Dervish at the Door
10. Art as Flirtation with Surrender: Wanting New Silk Harp Strings
ON FLIRTATION Omar and the Old Poet An Egypt That Doesn’t Exist Chinese Art and Greek Art In your light I learn Drumsound rises on the air Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
11. Union: Gnats Inside the Wind
ON UNION Gnats Inside the Wind Meadow-sounds Ayaz and the Ring’s Pearl Put This Design in Your Carpet Hallaj We Three I am filled with you
12. The Sheikh: I Have Such a Teacher
ON THE SHEIKH Chickpea to Cook I Have Such a Teacher Sublime Generosity Like This A Bowl Wax No Room for Form Childhood Friends The Mouse and the Camel These gifts from the Friend The Lame Goat
13. Recognizing Elegance: Your Reasonable Father
ON ELEGANCE Father Reason A craftsman pulled a reed Humble living does not diminish New Moon, Hilal Body Intelligence The Seed Market
14. The Howling Necessity: Cry Out in Your Weakness
ON HOWLING Love Dogs Cry Out in Your Weakness The Debtor Sheikh You that come to birth
15. Teaching Stories: How the Unseen World Works
ON THE UNSEEN Nasuh Moses and the Shepherd Joy at Sudden Disappointment If the beloved is everywhere Story Water
16. Rough Metaphors: More Teaching Stories
ON ROUGHNESS Rough Metaphors Birdwings I Come Before Dawn Checkmate An Awkward Comparison Two Kinds of Intelligence Two Ways of Running The Importance of Gourdcrafting Breadmaking
17. Solomon Poems: The Far Mosque
ON SOLOMON Sheba’s Gifts to Solomon Solomon to Sheba Sheba’s Hesitation Sheba’s Throne Solomon’s Crooked Crown The Far Mosque A bird delegation came to Solomon
18. The Three Fish: Gamble Everything for Love
ON GAMBLING If you want what visible reality Gamble everything In a boat down a fast-running creek The Three Fish Send the Chaperones Away When I remember your love All our lives we’ve looked The Gift of Water
19. Jesus Poems: The Population of the World
ON JESUS I called through your door Jesus on the Lean Donkey What Jesus Runs Away From Christ is the population There’s Nothing Ahead
20. In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories
ON BAGHDAD In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad Dying, Laughing Human Honesty Dalqak’s Message The Cat and the Meat Sheikh Kharraqani and His Wretched Wife The Snake-Catcher and the Frozen Snake Polishing the Mirror Ali in Battle
21. Beginning and End: The Stories That Frame the Mathnawi
ON THE FRAME The King and the Handmaiden and the Doctor The Three Brothers and the Chinese Princess
22. Green Ears Everywhere: Children Running Through
ON CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH I used to be shy Green Ears Birdsong brings relief The way of love is not Let your throat-song I have phrases and whole pages You’ve so distracted me I’m Not Saying This Right The Least Figure I reach for a piece of wood
23. Being Woven: Communal Practice
ON BEING WOVE Of Being Woven The Waterwheel The Granary Floor A Song About a Donkey Elephant in the Dark
24. Wished-For Song: Secret Practices
ON SECRECY A Wished-For Song A Basket of Fresh Bread When We Pray Alone One Who Wraps Himself Deliberation The Private Banquet We are the night ocean Which is worth more, a crowd
25. Majesty: This We Have Now
ON MAJESTY This We Have Now The Visions of Daquqi The Worm’s Waking The Freshness Judge a Moth by the Beauty of Its Candle The morning wind spreads Slave, be aware
26. Evolutionary Intelligence: Say I Am You
ON EVOLVING A Dove in the Eaves We have this way of talking This piece of food In the slaughterhouse of love The Witness, the Darling In the Arc of Your Mallet Unmarked Boxes The Milk of Millennia The You Pronoun Birdsong from Inside the Egg Say I Am You
27. The Turn: Dance in Your Blood
ON THE TURN Inside water, a waterwheel You have said what you are A secret turning in us This moment this love comes to res Keep walking, though there’s no place Walk to the well I circle your nest No better love than love Some nights stay up I am so small When you feel your lips The sun is love Something opens our wings Held like this I stand up, and this one of me I have lived on the lip Real value comes with madness Dance, when you’re broken open
A Note on These Translations and a Few Recipes Notes References Follow Penguin Copyright Page
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