Note on the organization of this book
Tavern: Whoever brought me here will have to take me home
Bewilderment: I have five things to say
Emptiness and silence: Night air
Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy
Feeling separation: Don't come near me
Controlling the desire-body: How did you kill your rooster, Husam?
Sohbet: Meetings on the riverbank
Being a lover: Sunrise ruby
Pickaxe: Getting to the treasure beneath the foundation
Art as flirtation with surrender: Wanting new silk harp strings
Union: Gnats inside the wind
Sheikh: I have such a teacher
Recognizing elegance: Your reasonable father
Howling necessity: Cry out in your weakness
Teaching stories: How the unseen world works
Rough metaphors: More teaching stories
Solomon poems: Far mosque
Three fish: Gamble everything for love
Jesus poems: Population of the world
In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: More teaching stories
Beginning and end: Stories that frame the Mathnawi
Green ears everywhere: Children running through
Being woven: Communal practice
Wished-for song: Secret practices
Majesty: This we have now
Evolutionary intelligence: Say I am you
Turn: Dance in your blood
Note on these translations and a few recipes.