When I Pray
When I pray the whole world becomes a pair of huge insect wings behind me, and I am a standing green insect with metallic…
Poems
The White Deer
It’s even closer than our fingertips what we’re longing for and travel for in search of closer than our jugular Shangri La lie…
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…
The Perfect Moon-Faced One
The perfect moon-faced one appears with perfect lips and bow-like eyebrows. His hair is braided behind his ears and this pure …
Robinson Crusoe Dips His Foot
Robinson Crusoe dips his foot in the river checking for piranhas watches the grasses of the glade checking for vipers squats i…
Souls
There are so many souls worth saving the face wreathed in roses whose eyes tell tales from before civilization when trees were…
Five Short Meditations on the Virgin Mary
(Note: This poem was commissioned by Abdal-Hakim Murad for his essay appearing in th…
These Faces of Ours
Everyone walks around with faces of lovers of God, everyone, young, old, grumpy, delighted, enraged, empurpled with rage, redd…
I’m in Love with a Panther / Life of Pi note
LIFE OF PI the Movie Just back from seeing The Life of Pi, in 3D, overwhelmed by it,…
Compassionate Zone
Streaks of color in the sky — can it be the blood of angels? The sky itself — can it be the breath of…
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…