Dark
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Deer and Starlight & Blue Mountains, Australia
Deer and Starlight at fifteen you first read a poem about Matthew Shepardyoung man brutalised by young menfor…
a river of mirrors
snow melt runs cold on the heights of the taurus mountains beyond human footfall where a tumble of…
Routine Stop
You brush against your holster in the sinewy fog draped over the town. It’s afternoon,…
On the Bus
She can feel the knotsthe odd angles, the bones,want to tell the woman to run, run, runbut deep…
The mirror & I feel it in my heart
The mirror I feel it in my heart I love youlike I love how we say صباح الفلwith…
Imprints of Time
Memory leaves imprints over the years, sometimes cackling, sometimes wailing, sometimes too full of serious. You live in…
Backwards & Persian Rug
Backwards Let history begin here: With the house standing tall from leveled ground. Before my parents are my…
Bab Touma & Others
Bab Touma Bab Touma: fragments of an old hymn catch in the night— the jasmine branches are dried…
Bumper Cars
For the first timein a long timeI hear my teenage daughter’slaughterand it send me pinwheelingback across the slick…
Bringing Light into the Darkness:
Paintings and Drawings by a Sudanese Master “No politics,” this was the artist’s only request when I asked…