Noon, the Sixth Day
You ask me to paint the future How? The canvas isn’t cut The sun is yet to set And I’m still mixing colors
Night Journey
One night I walked twelve miles the sergeant told us ‘take this time to think about important things’ I can’t remember what I thought…
Don’t Sleep
This violence & the messages of hate on ethnic lines surrounding it, are symptoms of broader systemic failings & contradictions we need to rise above.
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A minute ago all I heard was birdsong Now all I hear are rockets Intercepted overheard A thousand shards of light Cascading down to…
Man in the Moon
My grandmother taught me not to stare at the moon for too long and to never fall asleep facing a mirror My mother buried…
Glimpse of Spring
To the woman collecting bottles who feeds the cats every third day on her walk to work To the couples whispering on the stone…
On the Wings of Eagles
My brother, my friend For so long, so long bound in misery and chains of iron your liver pecked out by those vultures, those…
Sunrise on the Aegean
My breath crests over the clouds blending sky and ocean above the Hellespont Thessaly to my back emerging consummate from Thrace Jerusalem before me…
The Ninth of Av
I sit on a balcony in living Jerusalem, speaking to my father He explains the thought of the world and a return of light…
If I Became London
If I became London, would You still love me? My towers reaching high The clock borne in my breast chiming midnight my bed made…
Sunset
The sun dances a gentle lilac lending its glow to cashmere clouds the birds wind in lazy spirals and the world of this block…
Witness
You were young and lived a life of youth forever filled with fascination your mighty excitement at the tides of the market the call…