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 …
Poems
With the Saint at the Window / A wali’s passing
In 2014, a great wali (saint) of the Moroccan desert died, at a very advanced age, …
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…
The Soul
The soul is a flowering peach tree blooming on a bright green hill The scale of a dragon fallen into the Princess’ goblet turn…
The Rowers
The rowers of the big boats had no letup The trapeze artist has to catch his mate for once in midair it’s too late…
A Little Blue Monk
A little blue monk in a purple cassock served us sarsaparilla He looked through eyes that had been through a thousand years of…
Falling
If a body starts to fall and there’s nothing to stop it falling how long will it fall and through how many worlds? The…
Job Sits in His Chair
Job sits in his chair of molten lead Walks on a beach of burning sand speaks words that blister the air sings a…
Poem Ending with Lines by Yeats
I’ve got a dark force swimming inside me sort of like the Beast from the Black Lagoon or the famous statue of Lacoön with…
I Hear Nearby
I hear nearby firing squad bullets meant for me I am elsewhere All my deeds in a little box in my heart There are…
Science Fact Science Fiction
If illness by Allah is science fact then its cure is science fiction by a mad scientist we hope’s on the right track his…