No-one ever made it to the top
to see the worlds entirely,
except for you, old soul, who saw
the joke of non-existence
and didn't delay when you discovered
that sensual crack in [[time]] and its
terrifying punch[[line]]:
there's no-one to even laugh with you
as you feel this one dissolve
and rain [[mercy]] on all the make [[be]]lieve
below, because it was the most
majestically beautiful move
after having been both
quarks and quasars;
the turning quintessence
with which you created
this whole [[book]];
the none in one
from which it all burst;
a baffled king, his head blown off,
singing his clear [[way]] back down
Your sheer, Your stunning Face.
Hear him cry, o worthy reciter. Surely your tears have the ring of [[truth]] . Meanwhile, the whales have returned to our wide bay to…
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 press the pattern to my nose, threadbare and walked over by generations of my people, their footprints still [[here]] beneath the [[blue…
Walk through the [[light]] tunnel which is the whole extended history of space [[time]] , a literal looking back into the distant past…
"The slaves of time are slaves of slaves; the slaves of God alone are free." The [[moon]] has moved since I first arrived here: now the…
Two nights ago in a dream, you held my face so tenderly I felt everything else in the world fall apart except this embrace, lathered in the…
There is no obligation but clear deliverance, darkly lit, of how we danced in a scented daze, this knight and queen in checkered [[space…
"The colour of Allah is upon us! And what better dye than that of Allah. It is Him we worship." 2:138 "The colour of my [[love]] is deep…
Two trees guard either end of the path: massive milkwoods who greet me every morning on my way [[through]] the forest, singing salaam…
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