contents 1. The Tied Circle

The Stranger in Her Feminine Sign 5 Song Inside a Fossil 7 Baghdad in Detroit 9 Plastic Death 10 Nisaba 11 Salwa 13 Eva Whose Shadow Is a Swan 15 Three Women 17 My Grandmother’s Grave 18 100 Years of Sleep 20 My Poem Will Not Save You 21 2. Tablets

ii 25 iii 30 iv 34 v 39 3. T/here

What We Carry to Mars 47 Ama-ar-gi 50 That Place 52 Black and White 53 The War in Colors 55 n ن 56 On the Edge of a Mass Grave 61 On Ground Zero 62 The Others 63 Drawing 65 Flamingo 66 Rotation 67 Notes 69 Acknowledgements 70