First Night of Ramadan
A single stone is thrown in and the canyon resounds with the hallelujahs of angels A single breath contains the known and unkn…
Poems
Splendid Excitement of the Coming Day
Splendid excitement of the coming day! Palaces might await us filled with the tangie…
Four Corners of the Universe
The four corners of the universe can be seen as a little room deep inside the universe with planetary motions out each window …
The Path
You start early you’re nobody’s fool You set out on foot no snow will stop you Shapes in the mist statues of warriors Arms…
Ala-Udeen & The Magic Lamp
Ala-udeen, as his name goes, woke up with a bang and threw off his bedclothes, rubbed his eyes, then jumped out of bed, put…
The Crown of Creation
1 Biological strata I love you they build up their crud and scum of leaf mold, worm-hole, layer after layer from forest sea-fl…
Of My Mother, 92, With Alzheimers
1 I hate to think she may no longer dream of me. She lies on her couch and stares at the ceiling like…
He Comes Running (3 poems)
11 At the dawn call to prayer from the nearby lovely spindly-minareted mosque crossing adhans from other minarets by loudspeak…
Little Black Fly on the Wall
The little black fly on the wall doesn’t stop to think what he knows, those multiple eyes are enough. God’s sight through them…
By Our Smallness We Know Your Vastness
O Prophet of Allah, by our smallness we know your vastness, by our electron microsco…
Winter Scene
(Note: Though this poem was written in 2001, amazingly it turns out to have been written the same date as tonight, January 7, …
From a Particular Height
From a particular height a stone bird is sought From another altitude silk rain’s beseeched From yet another more daring God’s…