Table of Contents
Roqeeya
Sewing Needles 1
Three Dolls 3
Bright Dreams 5
The Old Kitchen 7
The Scorpion 8
Roqeeya 10
Patience Flower to Morning Dew
Patience Flower to Morning Dew 15
A Letter to Flower and Crown 20
Aunt Quietude's Journey 22
The Perfect Woman 27
Grandmother Lion's Ruby Ring 32
Grandmother Lion's Old Love Story 34
Two Gravestones 36
The Emerald Ring 38
The Silent Poet 40
Queen of Sheba 43
Golden-haired Zari 50
Forty Names
Forty Names 59
Wolf-Rider 63
Durrani 65
In Search of a Woman
Her Name is Flower Sap 69
The Flower in the Pear 71
The Caller and Her Constellation 73
Reading Nadia with Eavan 75
The Woman on the Rock 78
In Search of a Woman 79