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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Life and Work of Hafiz | |
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| Startled by God | |
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| Startled by God | |
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| Let's Eat | |
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| When the Violin | |
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| Looking for Good Fish | |
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| A Hunting Party | |
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| This Sane Idea | |
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| We Have Not Come to Take Prisoners | |
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| I Can See Angels | |
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| You're It | |
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| I Rain | |
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| I Have Learned So Much | |
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| I Have Learned So Much | |
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| God Just Came Near | |
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| The Sun Never Says | |
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| The Seed Cracked Open | |
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| Why Just Ask the Donkey | |
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| Who Wrote All the Music | |
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| Your Mother and My Mother | |
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| Mismatched Newlyweds | |
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| Your Seed Pouch | |
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| That Magnificent Storm | |
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| Removing the Shoe from the Temple | |
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| Removing the Shoe from the Temple | |
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| Against My Own Hand | |
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| Out of This Mess | |
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| If God Invited You to a Party | |
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| To Build a Swing | |
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| A Crystal Rim | |
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| This One Is Mine | |
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| Curfews | |
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| The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish | |
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| An Infant in Your Arms | |
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| I Hold the Lion's Paw | |
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| I Hold the Lion's Paw | |
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| If the Falling of a Hoof | |
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| What the Hell | |
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| Someone United Your Camel | |
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| When I Want to Kiss God | |
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| For a Single Tear | |
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| That Shapes the Eye | |
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| So Many Gifts | |
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| Love Is the Funeral Pyre | |
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| Allah, Allah, Allah | |
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| Don't Die Again | |
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| Don't Die Again | |
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| Like a Life-Giving Sun | |
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| The Great Work | |
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| Effacement | |
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| Some Fill with Each Good Rain | |
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| The Vintage Man | |
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| Everywhere | |
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| Lifts beyond Conception | |
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| God's Bucket | |
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| Just Looking for Trouble | |
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| The Gift | |
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| The Gift | |
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| Laughing at the Word Two | |
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| Life Starts Clapping | |
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| The Foundation for Greatness | |
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| Courteous to the Ant | |
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| His Winter Crop | |
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| The Scent of Light | |
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| No Conflict | |
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| Stop Calling Me a Pregnant Woman | |
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| A Strange Feather | |
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| I am Really Just a Tambourine | |
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| I Am Really Just a Tambourine | |
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| The Stairway of Existence | |
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| What Do White Birds Say | |
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| How Do I Listen? | |
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| The Earth Braces Itself | |
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| The Difference Between | |
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| The Angels Know You Well | |
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| Crooked Deals | |
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| The Millstone's Talents | |
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| Let Thought Become Your Beautiful Lover | |
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| Get the Blame Straight | |
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| Get the Blame Straight | |
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| Rewards for Clear Thinking | |
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| Please | |
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| This Constant Yearning | |
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| The Sad Game | |
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| That Regal Coat | |
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| Stop Being So Religious | |
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| Friends Do Things Like This | |
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| It Felt Love | |
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| Look! I Am a Whale | |
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| Two Bears | |
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| The Sky Hunter | |
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| Forgive the Dream | |
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| The Prettiest Mule | |
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| The Prettiest Mule | |
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| Today | |
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| Wise Men Keep Talking About | |
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| Back into Herself | |
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| The Mule Got Drunk and Lost in Heaven | |
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| Why Abstain? | |
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| The Warrior | |
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| Dividing God | |
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| I Saw Two Birds | |
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| Muhammad's Twin | |
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| Tiny Gods | |
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| Tiny Gods | |
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| This Union | |
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| When You Can Endure | |
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| This Talking Rag | |
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| Who Will Feed My Cat? | |
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| Burglars Hear Watchdogs | |
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| A Still Cup | |
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| That Lamp That Needs No Oil | |
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| Too Wonderful | |
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| Elephant Wondering | |
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| Elephant Wondering | |
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| An Old Musician | |
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| The Fish and I Will Chat | |
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| The Heart Is Right | |
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| Out of God's Hat | |
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| The Clay Bowl's Destiny | |
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| I Hope You Won't Sue This Old Man | |
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| Faithful Lover | |
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| Now Is the Time | |
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| Counting Moles | |
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| Counting Moles | |
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| Hafiz | |
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| The Body a Tree | |
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| A Great Need | |
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| There Could Be Holy Fallout | |
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| Trying to Wear Pants | |
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| This Sky | |
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| It is Unanimous | |
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| Two Puddles Chatting | |
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| His Ballet Company | |
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| Reverence | |
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| Reverence | |
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| That Tree We Planted | |
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| I Vote for You for God | |
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| A One-Story House | |
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| The Great Religions | |
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| What Happens to the Guest | |
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| I Want Both of Us | |
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| Like Passionate Lips | |
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| Cucumbers and Prayers | |
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| A Cushion for Your Head | |
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| A Cushion for Your Head | |
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| These Beautiful Love Games | |
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| The Bag Lady | |
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| The Ambience of Love | |
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| Tired of Speaking Sweetly | |
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| A Root in Each Act and Creature | |
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| Our Hearts Should Do This More | |
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| Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here | |
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| Imagination Does Not Exist | |
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| Throw Me on a Scale | |
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| The Hatcheck Girl | |
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| Damn Thirsty | |
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| Two Giant Fat People | |
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| Two Giant Fat People | |
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| Scratching My Back | |
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| If You Don't Stop That | |
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| Elegance | |
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| A Hole in a Flute | |
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| Until | |
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| Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks? | |
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| Dropping Keys | |
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| All the Talents of God | |
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| The Great Expanse | |
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| I Imagine Now for Ages | |
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| Spiced Manna | |
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| Spiced Manna | |
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| A Hard Decree | |
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| And For No Reason | |
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| Sometimes I Say to a Poem | |
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| The Suburbs | |
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| She Responded | |
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| We Might Have to Medicate You | |
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| The Idiot's Warehouse | |
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| When You Wake | |
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| This Teaching Business Isn't Easy | |
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| The Mountain Got Tired of Sitting | |
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| Where is the Door to the Tavern? | |
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| Where Is the Door to the Tavern? | |
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| Becoming Human | |
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| In Need of the Breath | |
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| The Heart's Coronation | |
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| The Thousand-Stringed Instrument | |
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| Then Winks | |
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| And Then You Are | |
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| The Intelligent Man | |
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| The Chorus in the Eye | |
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| Find a Better Job | |
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| The Lute Will Beg | |
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| When the Sun Conceived A Man | |
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| When the Sun Conceived a Man | |
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| A Mime | |
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| The Quintessence of Loneliness | |
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| Needing a Mirror | |
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| Zikr | |
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| The Tender Mouth | |
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| Greeting God | |
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| Reaching Toward the Millet Fields | |
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| Lousy at Math | |
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| Lousy at Math | |
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| The Sun in Drag | |
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| Between Our Poles | |
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| Stay Close to Those Sounds | |
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| An Invisible Pile of Wood | |
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| It Has Not Rained Light | |
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| Berserk | |
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| No More Leaving | |
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| Wow | |
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| What Should We Do about That Moon? | |
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| Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley | |
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| Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley | |
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| Why Not Be Polite | |
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| The God Who Only Knows Four Words | |
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| The God Who Only Knows Four Words | |
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| You Were Brave in That Holy War | |
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| Bring the Man to Me | |
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| Too Beautiful | |
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| My Eyes So Soft | |
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| The Diamond Takes Shape | |
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| That Does Perish | |
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| Chain You to My Body | |
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| Covers Her Face with Both Hands | |
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| Dog's Love | |
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| Stay With Us | |
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| Stay with Us | |
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| I Am Full of Love Tonight | |
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| Many Lives Ago | |
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| It Will Stretch Out Its Leg | |
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| Some of the Planets Are Hosting | |
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| What Is the Root? | |
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| The Same Suntan | |
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| For Three Days | |
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| A Clever Piece of Mutton | |
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| A Clever Piece of Mutton | |
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| Who Can Hear the Buddha Sing? | |
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| Buttering the Sky | |
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| How Fascinating | |
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| Where Great Lions Love to Piss | |
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| A Potent Lover | |
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| An Astronomical Question | |
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| I Wish I Could Speak Like Music | |
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| In a Circus Booth | |
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| Maybe Even Lucrative | |
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| Troubled | |
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| The Silk Mandala | |
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| The Silk Mandala | |
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| A Forest Herb | |
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| Your Camel Is Loaded to Sing | |
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| Stealing Back the Flute | |
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| Where the Drum Lost Its Mind | |
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| Every City Is a Dulcimer | |
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| Ruin | |
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| Between Your Eye and This Page | |
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| Practice This New Birdcall | |
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| I Know I was the Water | |
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| I Know I Was the Water | |
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| With That Moon Language | |
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| Without Brushing My Hair | |
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| Integrity | |
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| There | |
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| When Space Is Not Rationed | |
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| Birds of Passage | |
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| Act Great | |
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| The Only Material | |
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| I Got Kin | |
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| Only One Rule | |
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| Your Thousand Limbs | |
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| And Love Says | |