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VIRGIN EARTH
She lies before me, featureless and freshAs the savannah on the first dawn.My white salt, her blood-red ironMeet there on the restless landscape.She is my blessing, and I am her glory,I rejoice, or rather whisper to myself.This before me is the one true object,The actual event, and I am her witness.At that her strata quake…
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GARDEN OF THE DIVINE IMAGINATION
Staggering rows of pomegranate treesDrunk from invasions of bees and windImpregnated worlds, each and every one.Fruit dangles on their branchesBlack and shadowy, each teeming withTen million embryonic planetsEvery one of them spinning, compressed,An assembly of ten million moreWaiting for that inevitable sliceWhen they’ll surge forth to alterSo many foreign soils with their seedInstigating fortuitous terrains…
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ALLAHU CIPHER SONG
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavensAnd all the beings there are upon the earthLike my arms and each hair and finger on themAnd my two eyes and all the worlds they seeAll they’ve seen wherever my feet have beenEach and all belong to me and I to all of themEvery blessed and profane…
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PAGODA
I returnto this peakand seed its soil,my fathermother,with the dustof a thousand landsso that this templemight becomethe blessed Kaabaof a new order.
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SHAHADAH
The fire crackled and glowered, penned in by the ring of stones. I gazed into it, descended into its depths until I could hear it as a roar that blocked out the world or the illusion of a world. The flames leapt forth from their bounds and charged outward, shrieking like banshees into every opening…
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MODERNITY
The crowds rush forthlike mad berserker pilgrims,with visions of Paradise before their eyes. But the plain narrows,and closes in like a vise,until it comes to a point. The hordes do not quit their push.No — they only grow densertoward the convergence. The numbers swell and clamoreven as the noses of those in frontare ground into…
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MOUNT TOMORR
His is a fearsome face, sharp and disfigured, rocks assembled to conceal the absence of god, while we terrified monkeys flee to His stony skirt, clutching at its substantiality, even as an all-consuming hidden hole opens just on the other side. He loomed here long before I became aware, I just a blind protrusion of…
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ALPHABET OF THE GOD TO COME
I landed on this strange planetwhere every creature is branded,an eternal letter etched on its skin.No one knows their brand’s origin,Nor do they know what it means,each the sound from a languagethat doesn’t yet exist, but might one day.The letters will merge on an unknown dawn,And together form a poem of many lines.The words will…
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DROWNED
She sits by the pool’s edgeWaiting, plotting, mapping outEach paddle, each gaspIt must be perfect of formAn impeccable executionI must plunge my bodyForthwith and without splashI’ll propel myself forwardtorpedo-like through the watersShe bides her time for the momentThe perfect confluence of wavesThat ever seems the next to comeBut no, the water repliesYou don’t make the…
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JESUS WINKED
Jesus winked at me, Nan, I exclaimed, shocked and ecstatic, come here quick and see. I remember those eyes clear and crystalline as a crisp April morning showering their aquablue blessings upon that tiny white cabin in Penn’s Woods. I blinked and rubbed my own just to be sure, and – wink – there he…
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