Poem for his Mawlid, peace be upon him
MUHAMMAD’S BIRTH About his birth the whole world knows in the depths of its atoms.…
in a lighter vein…?
FIRST THE KNEES GIVE OUT First the knees give out then the ship’s rudder then the bank account then the canary cage then…
Clarifying Vision
An alchemist looks at his laboratory and sees penguins drinking tea He looks again and sees it’s his beakers bubbling A king l…
The Fact of the Matter
THE FACT OF THE MATTER The fact of the matter is that there’s no fact and no matter Waves of light across corrugated…
New Clocks Set Ahead
CLOCKS SET AHEAD Clocks set ahead one hour but darkness is just as dark Darkness after all is timeless Darkness doesn’t polish…
Ghazal: At Rumi’s Tomb
A sky shaped like a face – no it can’t be that A wingéd horse on fire in the middle of the air –…
from Becoming the Mountain / Poem
Never underestimate the power of impossible desire Flight would never have occurred to us nor loss of lesser self with God’s…
Somewhere in the Remote Arctic
Somewhere in the remote arctic there’s a vast sea of oval glaciers each set as if in ivory and extending across the expanse as…
Poem Before it is Written
POEM BEFORE IT IS WRITTEN Before this poem comes into being or rather in real time just as it’s coming into being it already…