“You burn better in the dark, I know this is god, // the descent of innocence into decadence / is his revenge against us for having loved…”
Category: Poetry
As Far as the World Is Wide
“Observe in your easy friendship // with infidels the shared terror / of two strangers encountering / at last a lost artifact, our // old convictions’ necessary / evidence of…”
صلاة الغائب / Salat al-Gha’ib
“And melt until they bend into waxen tessellations all of / our doubts, honeycomb wings we break when, climbing pyramids of / thoughts, we open our arms…”
In the Mouth of Winter
“Be careful who you worship. // I began this before I knew I was writing it, / I’d rather have words in my mouth than a dick…”
That You Might Know (What Sort of People We Used to Be)
“Don’t ever fossilize into something // your younger Self would never recognize, / something you’re not, or tolerate being / crucified by the unsolicited / opinions of unqualified strangers…”
