Dark
Light
Rise
Green parrots squawk across the apartment building’s courtyard,early morning light slips through the blinds, the way it glowsI…
The Child of My Father & So Close Behind
The Child of My Father Father, where is your child?I searched for him in the valleys, in the…
Goodnight To The Dark & Year After Year
Goodnight To The Dark I tack word onto word in the failinglight, to convince myself this languorousday of…
The Years
One day, you’re 16 and cutyour thumb while shavingyour patchy beard, dropping your motherspink, now red disposable BIC,bleeding…
Women’s History Month
Here I am, a mantrying to assemble a displayfor Women’s History Month.Google basically tells mewomen didn’t exist before…
Sound at the Sliding Doors
1.The ED doors slide open:You’re inside bandaging a wing.Discussing outside’s snow angel templates.Dreaming of sleep and your own…
Beirut on Acid, trip I
She isn’t a city, she’s a heartbeat—restless, erratic, impossible to silence.skies ripple, their tides like memory,streets thrum with…
A Mother’s Prayer for Peace
I watch you sleep in the wee hoursdark hair across your foreheadblack lashes fluttering at something I can’t…
Not the Same Day
She who holds the ink of night till dawn can read between the liesthe lip of morningand the…
A Sufi on the Path to God
One sorrow extends; another moors itself,folded into sombre-filled nights.Walled in by absence, we seewhat eyes—misled by intuition—miss.Displaced to…