[[Here]] I sit, watching
the sea, hungry and fearful
and utterly fulfilled.
I have felt brightness
bounce [[be]]tween us
as it [[burn]]ed up every chance
this [[mirror]] had imagined,
every image it had made
in all its subtle vanities,
leaving only a surface meant
to [[serve]] whomever looks within.
The view from here is vast:
sheer across this [[self]]-disclosing
[[blue]] dance tinged purple orange,
as we on this wide earth
are [[grace]]d again with a darkness
which holds no doubt
that our [[light]] goes on
forever.
Weeks it's taken us to get [[here]] , the last few signs of a vast surah which starts with the end and now asks me, directly, "What will…
You greeted me, brother, looked me in both [[eye]] s, then pulled me to your chest of [[light]] , fulfilling His first and final promise…
What the world smells like right [[now]] will never [[be]] said, and my [[heart]] sings with this one certainty. Sunset's ring has…
The vast depths are inked indigo after [[read]] ing Al-Infitar , the [[line]] between [[sea]] and sky incandescent in the soft…
To [[night]] , the waning moon rose into a [[light]] ning storm, rolling thunder over a [[white]] [[water]] road: these few words my…
[[Not]] hing arrived today and the rain was soft, soaking the singing [[sea]] and this sense of pure [[joy]] in a cup of tea after fasting…
"Day And I gathered fragments of blue dense" - Joseph Cornell Sometimes, there [[will]] [[be]] sorrow, but then you'll stand again, as…
"The importance of the moment is most important in the moment." - Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri It's still [[here]] , a glossy [[sea]] like…
Three waves break, one behind the other in high winds and a rainbow rides across the [[white]] spines as if they were crashing though all…
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