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Show me the Road toOblivion so many fine folk are on it Show me the All-Night Diner of Desireright on that road a riotous…
APHORISMS TO DEATH
If the silence I hear were to turn inside-out would it be a boisterous Mardi Gras or a deeper silence within silence? or none…
Poem in the First Person
Wait! Before you begin a new poem do you really want to add yet one more to the planet’s population of unread poems? Are…
I Enter the Chapel of my Forehead
1 I enter the chapel of my forehead in prostration where it is cool and dark Forehead against smooth boards eyes closed hands …
Take One Step Forward
Take one step forward it all turns to light But to pour from one bottle to another step back At just the right balance…
Some Softly Falling Rain
How can we talk about love? It’s a glass tumbler full of flames, coiling up like flowing hair, tips evaporating in space, then…
ISIS and Trumpism: Mirror images of Each other?
Bismillah er-Rahmen er-Raheem I’ve been noting that just as ISIL or ISIS is the natu…
Anti-ISIS: On the Muslim Imposters
BISMILLAH ER-RAHMAN ER-RAHEEM allahumma salli ala sayyedina Muhammad wa ala alihi sayyedina Muhammad We are living in overwhel…
In Every Breath
In every breath a face opens up of such purity whose radiance is cornfields at their peak moment of harvest God’s Face which i…