Shrapnel maps

I. Poster ("Visit-"). One tree, two neighbors, three books

Innocents abroad (I)

II. Poster ("Visit-") : A Concordance of Leaves. "because he drove the highway north, as if across"

"& because we swam in traffic for hours"

"on drying racks tobacco leaves swim"

"& this is the cemetery, where the father"

"the last time you rose from the bed"

"sister soon you will be written"

"of barbed wire I clear a line"

"& our family will ask so many questions we will"

"The Question Factory : why do you smile?"

"Today"

[title in Hebrew]

"for throwing a Molotov at a bus, Muhammed"

"scarved sisters are radiant with wide"

"because there is a word for love in this tongue"

"& though a careless assistant"

"& having been warned to tell the truth"

"If to Bethlehem we must pass through Wadi al-Nar"

"& though the border guard will advise us"

"is a violet fire & though the checkpoints hunker"

"& though some seaside café will split into glassy"

"& though there is a boy whose cheek"

"& though the bride's arms & legs will itch"

"& though the sun will be too bright for the bride"

"Accept this..."

"you my sister you my brother"

Coda

III. Poster ("Visit Palestine" / Weird Apparition). Our quiet Saturdays

Innocents abroad (II)

IV. Theater of Operations. Act One. Our house is now another house. Noah

Ghassan

Nachom

Jamil

Yael

Tariq

Salim

Act Two. This tide of blood. Adina

Karim

Avi & Abrahim (a chorus)

Azriel

[Breaking news]

Gidon

Sahar

Act Three. The matter of the flesh of one's flesh. Mirian

Maryam

Aaron

Rachel & Ayat (a chorus)

Ismail & Abla to Ahmed, their son

An index

Chorus

V. Innocents Abroad (III). The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians

According to this Midrash

The dance of the activist and the typist

VI. Poster ("Visit") / Unto a Land I Will Show Thee. Palestinae sive totius Terrae Promissionis nova descriptio

"In the Heights..."

Palestinae [Rudimentum Novit[i]orum] [1475]

"My neighbor's handshake is firm..."

[Fill in the blanks : Adele's Sunday school homework]

Is most true and the most considerable of all for the entire Land of promise ...

"The road from mouth to ear narrows at once...''

"the very act of [ ] a thing with edges"

"Not a box. A large jar..."

Like the serpent in Eden is the trumpet vine

Quarta Asia tabula continet Cyprum and Syrium and Iudea...

"I'm trying to return / I'm looking ahead"

Panel [board] concerning the country of Canaan ...

[Family]

Gaza / Sderot

"you there between things / and the words for things"

"In the sudden chill, dogwood leaves blush ..."

Palestinae delineatio ad geographiae canones revocata

Kafr Yar / Babi Qasim

Palaestinae quatuor facies [1720]

"I don't know / you"

[The daily contortions]

VII.

[O land / innocents abroad (IV)]

Demolition diptych

Marginalia with uprooted olive

VIII. Returning to Jaffa. Bride of Palestine (a simultaneity)

Reading of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, flying eastward

Postcard ("Tel Aviv / Explore Old Jaffa")

The Palestinian refugee's PowerPoint

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ARAB POPULATION (1) and (2)

Passages marked

Return (I)

A tour of Deir Yassin as broken Ghazal

The particulars of which

Begin + 'Uprooting' by Tamam Al-Akhal

Ode to the oranges of Jaffa

Postcard ("Summon the Genie of Jaffa to guard your health")

Return (II)

The house on Ajami

Return (III)

About the municipal historical archives

Tabitha, arise

Register

IX.

When it rains in Gaza

X.

Future anterior

My heart like a nation

Marginalia

Script / A paleography for the future

Isdoud

The bullet dream

Afterword

List of illustrations

About the author.