Timetable 1/ The Few with Elegant Manners
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asW4dweg8Ko] TIMETABLE 1 All the historical …
They Came Down from the High and Low Places
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhiRFBlQDI] THEY CAME DOWN FROM THE HIGH AN…
The Lover the Beloved
The lover lowers her gaze and the Beloved raises it until lover is engulfed in oceans too vast to circumscribe and around thei…
Pray Afghanistan / Videoku #2
A late-night videoku (attempted spontaneously for a while in 2009), extemporized before hitting the video button (I will confe…
Videoku #1
Video’d haiku in the moment of its making… with one false start… Haiku: 5/7/5 syllables, a momentary noticing, a flash, succin…
Bird Song
Olivier Messiaen, my favorite 20th century composer, a true mystic, actually envisioned being among the angels, often by putti…
A Breath of Fresh Air
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRZkB6lZJhs] A breath of fresh air sailed over the highest mountain peak and down into…
I’m More Concerned
I’m more concerned I’m more concerned he said of how these next few years these next few years will affect the small and peris…
Light of the Shadowless One
(Note: This is a poem for the Mawlid, honoring the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. In devotional poetry the honorific, “peace of All…