Name of God
1 The Name of God came haunting down the hall and dazzled all our eyes and ears and hearts, and made us swoon into…
Poems
Ladder Leaned up Against the House
Though he couldn’t see it from below the man was astonished that the ladder he’d leaned up against the house extended into the…
Hitting Bulls Eye
In memoriam Shaykh Mansur Escudero Marked from the start as one who would fly from the taut bowstring and hit bulls eye cuttin…
One Quick Cold Night
One quick cold night is all it takes for leaves to snap and fall from trees Greensward now more goldsward with yellow and brow…
Not a Moment
Not a moment can be squandered not a moment can be lost Grab the rope and swing out over the abyss “What rope?”…
‘Eid Poems: Ramadan Is Over…
RAMADAN IS OVER Ramadan is over, and I’ll miss its strange intensity. Dry mountains …
Ramadan Sonnet: What Sweetness it is
What sweetness it is, in a sea of bleakness, to prostrate in the prayer! The Prophet…
2 Poems from Ramadan Sonnets
RAMADAN ANGELS Ramadan angels crisscross the sky just above the earth on watch for fasters who lift up into other dimensions d…
His Reality in All Things
(Note: Sincere and true love of the Prophet, peace of Allah be upon him, and prayers upon him, cures our ills… and saves the…
God’s Hum
That’s God’s hum you hear when everything is silent When you snap the light out and lie down in the dark God’s hum from…
The Fact of the Matter
The fact of the matter is that there’s no fact and no matter Waves of light across corrugated panes of space each scallop of…
Whitman
While my wife was massaging my sore right arm in bed I suddenly saw the Civil War soldiers in the hospital Whitman used to…