Translator's Note
Introduction
I. Lords of Love:
From Ibn 'Arabi's Translator of Desires
1. Lords of Love
2. Armies of My Patience
3. Their Stoning Ground My Heart
4. As Night Let Its Curtains Down in Folds
5. Heartbreak Sought the Plain
6. Amid the Scent of Absinthe and Moringa
7. In Gowns of Darkness
8. In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul
9. Winding Like Snakes
10. In the Mirror of a Man
11. Gentle Now, Doves
II. Between the Music and the Graves
Orisha
Between the Music and the Graves
No Echo
Avatar Street
Descartes Mediterranean
Reliquary
Monroe Doctrine
The Frontiers of Fishing
Icicle Choir
Kairouan
The Other Way
III. Grief Was Between Us:
From Ibn 'Arabi's Translator of Desires
12. Gazelles Who Show You the Sun
13. Grief Was Between Us
14. The Hadith of Love
15. In Between Flattened on the Ground
16. You Who Pasture the Stars
17. God Curse My Love
18. As Cool as Life
19. The Tombs of Those Who Loved Them
21. Your Wish of Tangled Shade
25. My Guts are Plundered. I've Lost
48. Gone Sad
50. On the Bed Done In
24. Stay Now at the Ruins Fading
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