Until the Very Last Breath
When we look at death’s door it looks like nothing at all Blank and featureless a serious expression on a featureless face tha…
Some First Light
I lay my body down. Light occupies its place in space aslant the brown town. I leave a bone in the room. The bone…
Who Taught Who What
The eagle taught the rabbit how to keep out of sight. The bear taught the trout how to slip away. The elephant taught its…
On the Road to Konya
Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about God and I just want to go and sit under a tree but then the…
Light
Light everywhere moves with an anonymous precision over smooth terrain or rough-hewn scabrous dilapidation up stainless steel …
Saintly Places
We need to stand in saintly places the way our body needs food to not topple over We need to go there and find…
World Split Apart
The façade of a building falls away and reveals a man praying A bakery loses its show-window showing a hundred weddings who’ll…
All the Dead Children
Angels are learning new tricks to entertain all the dead children just bringing them to a quiet place used to be enough blue…
First Night of Ramadan
A single stone is thrown in and the canyon resounds with the hallelujahs of angels A single breath contains the known and unkn…