Friday, July 15, 2011

Dhikr

Because I am allowed
to write this then I’m

allowed because it is
allowable to write this then

it’s law because it is allawable
then the rite is God’s wa

’allahi O Lawd
because you rite this then

there is no law but la'
a law who, ach, bar

because each law allows
me less & follows you

to where you’re all
there's been enough allot

Monday, July 11, 2011

Celanian

The room you shut your language in
was full. There, grew a word
too gasping to be sung;

no sun broke through it, only
blindness, & the shriek of feathered
things, circadianally sound.
A Sufi prayer: 

Lord, if I’ve crossed two lines
that can't, let this work kaboom

Saturday, July 09, 2011

The surfaces of all things
startle, like the sea
that doesn’t drown; I will cover
these letters -- say O.
Give this fish wings, if it's flopped,
& if, one day it falls, a flood.