Your [[love]] is [[light]] focused
in my [[heart]], that first messenger
at last arrived to take the [[signed]] [[will]]
from this bewildered debtor
and make certain deliverance
by dint of one declaration,
before the father of our [[line]] turns
the magnifying heat to flame
and what beats in me is [[burn]]t up
beside the sacred house rebuilt, right
where steadfast ants last buried a seed
deep beneath the black keystone,
only to [[be]] [[broken]] free
by this prehistoric [[holy]] fire,
returned to sing its imperfection.
Can you be [[nothing]] special when the help of God comes and wake up in the predawn [[light]] with no idea of who it was that spoke and…
Old wizard, what a [[joy]] it is to [[wander]] with you on this windless wild day, your seven sermons singing a [[simple]] insight…
I remember playing hide-and-go-seek so vividly I can still touch the wall we were crouched behind, the two-tone bare-brick [[white…
I freed a Cape Robin and felt her tiny [[heart]] pulsing, felt the clean fear of no [[way]] out and the great courage to let herself be…
I press the pattern to my nose, threadbare and walked over by generations of my people, their footprints still [[here]] beneath the [[blue…
"The decree is for the truth to [[be]] experienced by all humankind, if [[not]] in this [[life]] , then after [[death]] ." - Shaykh…
The vast depths are inked indigo after [[read]] ing Al-Infitar , the [[line]] between [[sea]] and sky incandescent in the soft…
Silver streams [[through]] the channel chasing the school it slid off in the deep afternoon [[light]] , [[white]] [[trace]] s of cloud…
A oboe climbs the moving stairs carved by orange [[moon]] [[light]] and the balanced scales of orb and mighty ocean. Quite what this…
[[Burn]] ing day: set a [[light]] by how we danced last [[night]] , feeling you right [[here]] , held against me while we moved as one…
Who walked this wide expanse last [[night]] , opened by waxing [[light]] , and sang a fragrant [[line]] ? Or fell to their knees on the…
[[Here]] I sit, watching the sea, hungry and fearful and utterly fulfilled. I have felt brightness bounce [[be]] tween us as it [[burn…
A pair of [[white]] wings wafts by as you tell me to look into the [[eye]] of the Be [[love]] d, and the palm leaves waltz lazily in…
Life goes on forever, whether you ack [[now]] ledge it or not. It's love we're [[here]] to service: one purring [[heart]] stripped down…
Morning and [[time]] again to sing as earth sinks into [[light]] and the dawn chorus. It's grey and cold, but today the birds are truly…
"Day And I gathered fragments of blue dense" - Joseph Cornell Sometimes, there [[will]] [[be]] sorrow, but then you'll stand again, as…
Walk through the [[light]] tunnel which is the whole extended history of space [[time]] , a literal looking back into the distant past…
A butterfly just butted in and is being quite belligerent. I must begin to [[write]] , though what it is I cannot say, opening the…
"His knowledge of my condition frees me from asking" - Abraham This [[self]] bent over, bereft, finally brave [[enough]] to bare a small…
There is no obligation but clear deliverance, darkly lit, of how we danced in a scented daze, this knight and queen in checkered [[space…
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