Table of Contents

	Preface	p. xi
	The New Civil Service	p. 1
	Tanks into Sticks	p. 6
	Whether on the Shores of Asia	p. 10
		p. 15
	Chicago and Paris	p. 17
	Huma	p. 19
	Fare Forward	p. 23
	These Boots	p. 30
		p. 35
	Qasim	p. 37
	Impersonal Pronoun	p. 44
	A Tajik Village	p. 48
	The Emir of the West	p. 50
	Caravanserai, Whose Portals . . .	p. 56
	To a Blind Man’s Eye	p. 62
	Genealogies	p. 69
	Lest He Returning Chide . . .	p. 74
	Crown Jewels	p. 85
	Bread and Water	p. 90
	The Fighting Man Shall	p. 95
	A Nothing Man	p. 99
		p. 103
	Highland Buildings	p. 105
	The Missionary Dance	p. 112
	Mirrored Cat’s - Eye Shades	p. 117
	Marrying a Muslim	p. 120
	War Dog	p. 127
	Commandant Haji (Moalem) Mohsin Khan of Kamenj	p. 134
	Cousins	p. 141
		p. 145
	The Minaret of Jam	p. 147
	Traces in the Ground	p. 157
	Between Jam and Chaghcharan	p. 161
	Dawn Prayers	p. 164
	Little Lord	p. 167
	Frogs	p. 172
	The Windy Place	p. 177
		p. 183
	Name Navigation	p. 185
	The Greeting of Strangers	p. 192
	Leaves on the Ceiling	p. 197
	Flames	p. 200
	Zia of Katlish	p. 203
	The Sacred Guest	p. 208
	The Cave of Zarin	p. 212
	Devotions	p. 217
	The Defiles of the Valley	p. 220
		p. 227
	The Intermediate Stages of Death	p. 229
	Winged Footprints	p. 231
	Blair and the Koran	p. 234
	Salt Ground and Spikenard	p. 239
	Pale Circles in Walls	p. 242
	@afghangov.org	p. 245
	While the Note Lasts	p. 250
		p. 255
	Footprints on the Ceiling	p. 257
	I Am the Zoom	p. 260
	Karaman	p. 262
	Khalili’s Troops	p. 266
	And I Have Mine	p. 270
	The Scheme of Generation	p. 273
	The Source of the Kabul River	p. 276
	Taliban	p. 279
	Toes	p. 285
	Marble	p. 289
	Epilogue	p. 295
	Acknowledgments	p. 299

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