Introduction to When You Wave at a Train and the Train Hoots Back at You
This may be my most personal book, …
Nahnu Fee Rawdati & Poem: Shy Hemlocks Brash Niagaras
The song, Nahnu fee Rawdati, from the Diwan of Shaykh ibn al-Habib, raheemahullah, s…
Tell All the Truth (Dickinson) / Heart to Heart in Death’s Rumble
(An Ars Poetica, from a great pract…
When I Pray
When I pray the whole world becomes a pair of huge insect wings behind me, and I am a standing green insect with metallic…
The White Deer
It’s even closer than our fingertips what we’re longing for and travel for in search of closer than our jugular Shangri La lie…
Talk
Talk to your body talk to your soul Talk to the thunder on the hill Talk to God’s world in which we dwell the…
The Perfect Moon-Faced One
The perfect moon-faced one appears with perfect lips and bow-like eyebrows. His hair is braided behind his ears and this pure …
Robinson Crusoe Dips His Foot
Robinson Crusoe dips his foot in the river checking for piranhas watches the grasses of the glade checking for vipers squats i…
Souls
There are so many souls worth saving the face wreathed in roses whose eyes tell tales from before civilization when trees were…