Fasting

Splendid excitement of the coming day! Palaces might await us filled with the tangie…

The four corners of the universe can be seen as a little room deep inside the universe with planetary motions out each window …

A sandwich at noon is enough to frighten a field of crows A telephone ringing in an empty room is answered by the wind…

At the pivot end of a life (between this world and the next) all the sleek black horses lined up for inspection all the…

for Baji (who heard the geese overhead calling out: Allah! Allah!) Intense nighttime sessions of Light spangle the planetary a…

Ramadan is a gorgeous chorus repeated in a mist above glades of green wheat bending in blue light Ramadan meets itself coming …

If all my poems seem to end up in the same place it’s because I also want to end up there grateful to God…

Puppets can’t break their fast through their painted mouths Rocks can be said to be fasting forever Mountain “fastnesses” are …

A pinpoint and a compass point a bismin and a galaxy What do they have in common? A cloud in the sky and a…

Ramadan suns itself by the dark of night and takes no notice of earthquake or flood Ramadan begins walking toward us from the …

Who I’ve become after all my adventures on land is a seventy-one year-old man who fa…

If you haven’t been parted from what you truly love then foot cannot follow foot nor heart follow heart Beasts born in the wil…