The Gift (Paperback, Gift)

Preface Introduction: The Life and Work of Hafiz One: Startled by God Startled by God Let's Eat When the Violin Looking for Good Fish A Hunting Party This Sane Idea We Have Not Come to Take Prisoners I Can See Angels You're It I Rain Two: I Have Learned So Much I Have Learned So Much God Just Came Near The Sun Never Says The Seed Cracked Open Why Just Ask the Donkey Who Wrote All the Music Your Mother and My Mother Mismatched Newlyweds Your Seed Pouch That Magnificent Storm Three: Removing the Shoe from the Temple Removing the Shoe from the Temple Against My Own Hand Out of This Mess If God Invited You to a Party To Build a Swing A Crystal Rim This One Is Mine Curfews The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish An Infant in Your Arms Four: I Hold the Lion's Paw I Hold the Lion's Paw If the Falling of a Hoof What the Hell Someone Untied Your Camel When I Want to Kiss God For a Single Tear That Shapes the Eye So Many Gifts Love Is the Funeral Pyre Allah, Allah, Allah Five: Don't Die Again Don't Die Again Like a Life-Giving Sun The Great Work Effacement Some Fill with Each Good Rain The Vintage Man Everywhere Lifts beyond Conception God's Bucket Just Looking for Trouble Six: The Gift The Gift Laughing at the Word Two Life Starts Clapping The Foundation for Greatness Courteous to the Ant His Winter Crop The Scent of Light No Conflict Stop Calling Me a Pregnant Woman A Strange Feather Seven: I Am Really Just a Tambourine I Am Really Just a Tambourine The Stairway of Existence What Do White Birds Say? How Do I Listen? The Earth Braces Itself The Difference Between The Angels Know You Well Crooked Deals The Millstone's Talents Let Thought Become Your Beautiful Lover Eight: Get the Blame Straight Get the Blame Straight Rewards for Clear Thinking Please This Constant Yearning The Sad Game That Regal Coat Stop Being So Religious Friends Do Things Like This It Felt Love Look! I Am a Whale Two Bears The Sky Hunter Forgive the Dream Nine: The Prettiest Mule The Prettiest Mule Today Wise Men Keep Talking About Back into Herself The Mule Got Drunk and Lost in Heaven Why Abstain? The Warrior Dividing God I Saw Two Birds Muhammad's Twin Ten: Tiny Gods Tiny Gods This Union When You Can Endure This Talking Rag Who Will Feed My Cat? Burglars Hear Watchdogs A Still Cup That Lamp That Needs No Oil Too Wonderful Eleven: Elephant Wondering Elephant Wondering An Old Musician The Fish and I Will Chat The Heart Is Right Out of God's Hat The Clay Bowl's Destiny I Hope You Won't Sue This Old Man Faithful Lover Now Is the Time Twelve: Counting Moles Counting Moles Hafiz The Body a Tree A Great Need There Could Be Holy Fallout Trying to Wear Pants This Sky It Is Unanimous Two Puddles Chatting His Ballet Company Thirteen: Reverence Reverence That Tree We Planted I Vote for You for God A One-Story House The Great Religions What Happens to the Guest I Want Both of Us Like Passionate Lips Cucumbers and Prayers Fourteen: A Cushion for Your Head A Cushion for Your Head These Beautiful Love Games The Bag Lady The Ambience of Love Tired of Speaking Sweetly A Root in Each Act and Creature Our Hearts Should Do This More Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here Imagination Does Not Exist Throw Me on a Scale The Hatcheck Girl Damn Thirsty Fifteen: Two Giant Fat People Two Giant Fat People Scratching My Back If You Don't Stop That Elegance A Hole in a Flute Until Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks? Dropping Keys All the Talents of God The Great Expanse I Imagine Now for Ages Sixteen: Spiced Manna Spiced Manna A Hard Decree And For No Reason Sometimes I Say to a Poem The Suburbs She Responded We Might Have to Medicate You The Idiot's Warehouse When You Wake This Teaching Business Isn't Easy The Mountain Got Tired of Sitting Seventeen: Where Is the Door to the Tavern? Where Is the Door to the Tavern? Becoming Hu