Fifteenth Night of Shabaan A ball of mercury slides down an incline into a pool reflecting all the starry heavens making a whispery inaudible splash A pl… read more
If I Should Die Tonight If I should die tonight it would be like stepping out onto a big pond’s lily pads with all the other frogs combing out… read more
Light of the Shadowless One (Note: This is a poem for the Mawlid, honoring the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. In devotional poetry the honorific, “peace of All… read more
Clarifying Vision An alchemist looks at his laboratory and sees penguins drinking tea He looks again and sees it’s his beakers bubbling A king l… read more