Picture of the Garden
There is a picture of The Garden as a garden within a garden (by which I mean Paradise), one state enclosed by another state,…
Name of God
1 The Name of God came haunting down the hall and dazzled all our eyes and ears and hearts, and made us swoon into…
Ladder Leaned up Against the House
Though he couldn’t see it from below the man was astonished that the ladder he’d leaned up against the house extended into the…
Hitting Bulls Eye
In memoriam Shaykh Mansur Escudero Marked from the start as one who would fly from the taut bowstring and hit bulls eye cuttin…
The Ecstatic Exchange: Words on my Life and Poetry
Bismillah er-rahman er-rahim To begin to present my life-time’s body of poetic work …
One Quick Cold Night
One quick cold night is all it takes for leaves to snap and fall from trees Greensward now more goldsward with yellow and brow…
Not a Moment
Not a moment can be squandered not a moment can be lost Grab the rope and swing out over the abyss “What rope?”…
‘Eid Poems: Ramadan Is Over…
RAMADAN IS OVER Ramadan is over, and I’ll miss its strange intensity. Dry mountains …
Ramadan Sonnet: What Sweetness it is
What sweetness it is, in a sea of bleakness, to prostrate in the prayer! The Prophet…