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The Tyrant
The Tyrant is a monologue that imagines a Middle East (Egyptian) leader captured and brought to America to…
The Island
“All I hear is the shuttling of the waves. They are like thoughts; with each crash they chant,…
Silence and Where Is Home
Silence Between every word ever said A thousand more, heard but not uttered In the silence lies the…
The Broken House
She could hear her screaming in the next bedroom over. Screaming loudly in pain and agony as the…
A Bowl of Molokhiyya
The staircase was its dark self as he climbed up that evening. Nothing had changed, but then nothing…
Three Nights Before the Levees Broke
New Orleans, 1965 “Dear God, Roger, you need to get some sleep. That woman will be the death…
The Burning of Cairo
The fire drags on; the air sits low, perspiring as atom embarks on atom, and barbarity climbs. High…
A Cream City Reserved Only for the Pious
The weatherman on the nine p.m. news broadcast performed his regular monologue: moderate temperature, slight wind, no hint…
I as in Iraq and Immigrating
“I” as in Iraq To begin with The hieroglyphical origin of My identity was simply nothing But a…
Red Poem
Apple saddened cried Red Red beauty, now holed “O sweet mother tree, why has the worm flawed me?”…