Down at the Deep End #9
This is from a series of abstract puzzle drawings I found myself doing during chemotherapy and radiation treatments, drawing m…
Cancer Treatment
Eternity Shimmers Time Holds its Breath
Eternity shimmers in the room among the bright solid furniture that is the furniture…
Next Life
There are among us luminous beings who maintain that what we might taste of the Garden of Paradise and what we might suffer of…
Down at the Deep End
This may be a secret among only a few of its recipients, but cancer is a direct and positive gift from God. Its chemo…
The Sweet Enigma of it All / Poems
The enigma of it all stood up and spread out its feathery arms All the doubts and gnarly creatures disappeared from around it …
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…
These Faces of Ours
Everyone walks around with faces of lovers of God, everyone, young, old, grumpy, delighted, enraged, empurpled with rage, redd…
His Most Precious Concern
(salla ‘llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam is assumed after the mention of his blessed name) The Prophet Muhammad sits by the bedside of …
What Fire Prevented
This narrative poem was written in hospital during a chemo session, contemplating God’s sending a perceived “calamity” that mi…
All Our Attempts at Healing
“There’s a cure for everything but death” — Hadith of the Prophet (salla ‘llahu alayhi wa sallam) All our attempts at healing …
Cancer
Cancer creeps in on little cat’s feet Cancer grows from the root upward Cancer as a fact is a hard fact to grasp Cancer…
Soul Questions
Do the soul’s arms hang down at its sides? Do the soul’s legs extend down from its hips? Do the soul’s eyes float above…