Registers of illuminated villages: poems

Register of eliminated villages --
The hidden register of hunger --
Self-portrait as mango --
Acolyte --
Your own country --
The sacrifice --
IV and make-up homework --
West Texas nocturne --
The performance of no one\'s fingers --
Djinn in need of a bitch --
Feast or famine --
Before the accident, and after --
100 bells --
The hidden register of submission --
Self-portrait as slinky --
What this elegy wants --
To the Bangladeshi cab driver in San Francisco --
To the littlest brother --
Soliloquies from the village of orphans and widows --
You own palm --
Consider the hands once smaller --
Dark pairing --
Poetry recitation at St. Catherine\'s school for girls --
Sex or sleep or silk --
Great material --
You ask why write about it again --
The hidden register of solace --
Self-portrait as Artemis --
The distance between fire and stone --
The error of echo --
The doors to Trinity --
Diary --
Apology from a Muslim orphan --
Searchlight payar --
Aubade with sage and lemon --
Because there\'s still a sky, junebug --
I told the water --
Mother --
Variations on a cemetery in summer --
... but you can\'t stay here --
Fable of the firstborn --
Notes.