
Midnight Ping-Pong Match
A midnight ping-pong match is playing among the stars Atoms careen through space smacked by invisible paddles The shadow of th…
The things of this world have
gone a remove while fasting
as if through a kind of glazed window just
out of reach
which is where they always are though we
clutch their ghosts to us in a
curious waltz and
hope for the best
Ramadan casts its star-like
light making things stand out in
sharp relief from an
even starrier background
releasing us in His Mercy from their
clankier chains
8/9/11 9 Ramadan (from Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight)
Categories: Poems, Ramadan / 'Eid, Fasting