Ramadan / ‘Eid

At our night of dhikr last night our shaykh asked us what Ramadan is to each one of us personally and insisted that we…

Adam stood in the world as tall as the trees the sun bathing his body birds wreathing his outline with birdsong waters everywh…

Ah coy crescent hiding in a blush of sky so many want to see you and hold you to our hearts each in our…

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

IF WE WOKE UP ONE MORNING If we wok…

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

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

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…

The small brown spider in my bathroom (honored guest whose protection is assured) after more than two weeks of patient waiting…

Slave stomach said to the rest of the body “I am King!” and the general populace of the body acquiesced worried lest its bond…

Halfway through the fast is it a giant granite stone we shoulder uphill in a boiling sun? Or pool after reflective shady pool …