Call and answer / Lady freedom among us / Your beauty is overwhelming / Green / On reading a biography of George Washington / End of the war, 1949 / Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 / Night in blue / This place is here / Tienanmen, the aftermath / In mystic / All Hallows Eve / History lesson / An essay on liberation / November 11 / Parable of the Jew without a name / Tahrir / Unrest / Summer of '09 / Reading about Rwanda / The freeways considered as earth gods / The squash man / The bridge of intellectuals / Dialogue (of the imagination's fear) / Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday ("Live in the body, long as you will, Madiba") / War is never right / Athena looks on / Jerusalem : Easter, Passover / Boy shooting at a statue / Angels / To Salah al Hamdani, November, 2008 / After the fact / The book of the dead man (The vote) / The museum of stones / Rules governing the exchange of prisoners / Language acquisition : no and yes / On election day / Shoo / Second thoughts / Becoming Milton / World cup / In prison / Now / On the ordination of a Zen monk / Extraordinary rendition / Staff Sgt. Metz / Ex-embassy / August 6, and again on August 9 / The allusion of seduction / Dear Prudence / Asphodel / Dark thirty / Teacup manifesto / Fatwa / What's fair is fair / Poverty / The gatekeeper's children / More poetry / The people of the other village / Wait