“Yes, 

to hold, the streetlights guiding your path.”

A stunning collection. I think it brought me closer to Asghar, seeing a lot of the themes from their book When We Were Sisters brought home in new ways. 
My absolute favorite was “Haram.” Having also struggled with my body hair when I was young, reading the ties between the culture of hair removal and the Surah about not altering any part of your body, the conclusion, “Maybe we were outside Allah’s creations... We speculated the Qur’an hadn’t ever imagined hairiness like ours, so vast, it was its own sin” broke something in me open