The Things of This World
The things of this world have gone a remove while fasting as if through a kind of glazed window just out of reach which…
Poems
A Fiery Glow in the Heart
Taste the nothing that isn’t and the nothingness that is How many giraffes could gallop through those words with their incredi…
A Flourish of Time
A flourish of time and a life is complete with its circles and straight lines somehow converging at a vanishing point attended…
Black Cow
At our night of dhikr last night our shaykh asked us what Ramadan is to each one of us personally and insisted that we…
Leave the World Alone
Sumptuous Juggler God Coy Beloved Elusive Letter-writer from a distant land beyond moonbeams and tides though You send them to…
Adam Stood in the World
Adam stood in the world as tall as the trees the sun bathing his body birds wreathing his outline with birdsong waters everywh…
Returning from a Marvelous Journey
I’ve got a window up my sleeve and a door in my shirt I can open any time to walk out into the blue.…
Establishing Enthusiasm
[NOTE: This is a poem from the great late Mexican poet (1935-2009) Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, whom I met and learned so much…
Nahnu Fee Rawdati & Poem: Shy Hemlocks Brash Niagaras
The song, Nahnu fee Rawdati, from the Diwan of Shaykh ibn al-Habib, raheemahullah, s…
Tell All the Truth (Dickinson) / Heart to Heart in Death’s Rumble
(An Ars Poetica, from a great pract…
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…
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…