19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Book

	Introduction	x
Section 11
	Different Ways to Pray	3
	My Father and the Figtree	6
	What Kind of Fool Am I?	8
	Going to the Spring	9
	Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl	11
	The Words Under the Words	14
	Spark	16
	The Man Who Makes Brooms	18
	The Garden of Abu Mahmoud	20
	Her Way	22
	The Clean Rinse	24
	For Mohammed on the Mountain	25
	Passing the Refugee Camp	30
	Lunch in Nablus City Park	35
	Arabic Coffee	38
	Red Brocade	40
	Steps	42
	Prayer in My Boot	44
	Things Don't Stop	46
	Even at War	50
	The Grieving Ring	51
	For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh	53
	Those Whom We Do Not Know	55
	Visit	58
	The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties	59
	The Small Vases from Hebron	63
	Darling	65
	Fundamentalism	68
	My Grandmother in the Stars	69
	Rock	70
	Praying for Wind	73
	Olive Jar	80
	They Dropped It	83
Section 285
	19 Varieties of Gazelle	87
	Arabic	90
	Jerusalem	92
	Holy Land	94
	Half-and-Half	96
	Stain	98
	My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop	99
	A Definite Shore	102
	Two Countries	104
	The Tray	105
	The Many Hats of William Yale	106
	What News Are You Listening To?	108
	Staying Close	109
	Ducks	110
	The Address Book of a Lonely Man	112
	Footfall	114
	Trenches and Moats and Mounds of Dirt	117
	What He Said to His Enemies	119
	Peace	120
	How Long Peace Takes	122
	A Single Slice Reveals Them	124
	Stone House	125
	Jerusalem Headlines 2000	128
	Mr. Dajani, Calling from Jericho	130
	All Things Not Considered	133
	Blood	136
	Postscript	139