The veiled suite: the collected poems

The Veiled Suite

Postcard from Kashmir

A Lost Memory of Delhi

A Dream of Glass Bangles

Snowmen

Cracked Portraits

Story of a Silence

Prayer Rug

The Dacca Gauzes

The Season of the Plains

A Monsoon Note on Old Age

A Butcher

The Fate of the Astrologer Sitting on the Pavement Outside the Delhi Railway Station

After Seeing Kozintsev's King Lear in Delhi

Chandni Chowk, Delhi

Cremation

In Memory of Begum Akhtar

Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz

A Wrong Turn

Vacating an Apartment

The Previous Occupant

Leaving Your City

Philadelphia, 2:00 A.M.

The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M.

Flight from Houston in January

Stationery

Survivor

I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi

A Call

The Tiger at 4:00 A.M.

In the Mountains

Houses

Bell Telephone Hours

1. Has anyone heard from you lately?

2. Call long distance: the next best thing to being there

3. It s getting late. Do your friends know where you are?

4. Reach out and touch someone far away. Use your phone for all it's worth

5. Today, talk is cheap. Call somebody

Advertisement (Found Poem)

Language Games

Poets on Bathroom Walls

Christmas, 1980s

An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little

The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood"

Hansel's Game

Eurydice

Beyond the Ash Rains

A Rehearsal of Loss

Crucifixion

Leaving Sonora

I Dream I Return to Tucson in the Monsoons

A Nostalgist's Map of America

In Search of Evanescence

1. Students of mist

2. It was a year of brilliant water

3. When on Route 80 in Ohio

4. Someone wants me to live

5. From the Faraway Nearby

6. In Pennsylvania seven years ago

7. We must always have a place

8. You

9. The way she had in her rushes of resonance

10. Shahid, you never

11. "Phil was afraid of being forgotten"

The Keeper of the Dead Hotel

From Another Desert

1. Cries Majnoon

2. In the grief of broken stone

3. Each statue will be broken

4. There again is memory

5. Cries Majnoon

6. His blood shines

7. Who now weeps

8. Majnoon was again sighted

9. Majnoon

10. In prison Majnoon weeps for Satan

11. The prisoners know they've been

12. Ambushed in century after century by the police of God

13. The dead are here. Listen to survivors

No

Resume

Notes on the Sea's Existence

Medusa

The Youngest of the Graeae

Desert Landscape

I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror

Snow on the Desert

The Blessed Word: A Prologue

Farewell

I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight

The Last Saffron

I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar

"Some Vision of the World Cashmere"

"Lo, A Tint Cashmere!/Lo, A Rose!"

Ghazal

Dear Shahid

A Pastoral

Return to Harmony 3

The Country Without a Post Office

The Floating Post Office

The Correspondent

A Fate's Brief Memoir

At the Museum

A History of Paisley

A Footnote to History

Son et Lumiere at Shalimar Garden

Ghazal

First Day of Spring

Ghazal

Death Row

The City of Daughters

Muharram in Srinagar, 1992

Hans Christian Ostro

A Villanelle

After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan

Lenox Hill

From Amherst to Kashmir

1. Karbala: A History of the "House of Sorrow"

2. Zainab's Lament in Damascus

3. Summers of Translation

4. Above the Cities

5. Memory

6. New Delhi Airport

7. Film Bbajan Found on a 78 RPM

8. Srinagar Airport

9. God

10. Ghalib's Ghazal

11. The Fourth Day

12. By the Waters of the Sind

Rooms Are Never Finished

Ghazal

Barcelona Airport

A Secular Comedy

1. Heaven

2. Earth

3. Hell

The Nature of Temporal Order

Ghazal

On Hearing a Lover Not Seen for Twenty Years Has Attempted Suicide

Suicide Note

Ghazal

The Purse-Seiner Atlantis

Eleven Stars Over Andalusia

1. On our last evening on this land

2. How can I write above the clouds?

3. There is a sky beyond the sky for me

4. I am one of the kings of the end

5. One day I will sit on the pavement

6. Truth has two faces and the snow is black

7. Who am I after the night of the estranged?

8. O water, be a string to my guitar

9. In the exodus I love you more

10. I want from love only the beginning

11. Violins

I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World

I Have Loved

For You

Of It All

Of Fire

Things

Shines

My Word

From The Start

Angels

Of Water

As Ever

Land

Not All, Only a Few Return

Water

Of Snow

Air

About Me

In Marble

Bones

In

Beyond English

Of Light

Stars

For Time

God

Forever

After You

In Arabic

Tonight

Existed.