Prayer at the Ka’ba
Oh Lord, the orange cat lying asleep on the shoe rack outside the Ka’ba looked tranquil, lean from living wild in Mecca, but s…
Poems
The Morning of the Last Day
Allah elects from whomever he wants of His slaves for the presence of isolation — Shaykh ibn al-Habib of Fez The sun is rising…
The Wild Stars
Every person on earth walks their entire life back and forth underneath the stars, but it seems as if some never look up. Babi…
New Moon
How strange that it’s all based on the sighting of the slightest sliver of the moon! The whole sky veils it then, only the…
2 from Ramadan Sonnets (25th Ramadan)
AFTER AFTERNOON NAP 1 Awakening from finally a Sunday afternoon nap having a hard ti…
Midnight Ping-Pong Match
A midnight ping-pong match is playing among the stars Atoms careen through space smacked by invisible paddles The shadow of th…
2 Poems from Ramadan Sonnets
THE INEVITABLE It’s like practicing for death. No food or drink during daylight hours no matter what, in the heat of summer or…
Fifteenth Night of Shabaan
A ball of mercury slides down an incline into a pool reflecting all the starry heavens making a whispery inaudible splash A pl…
Great Boat
We live in the hold of a great boat moving through the stars There are no windows in this boat and it is all…
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…