"Mysteries of Hello Kitty"

Darb Ramadan · crystal ablution
crisp · furrow

ambitious · magic
adjunct salp into ichthys · prismatic myth

as stars · rattling along cark
ablution

clasp fulcrum · at will
for only actual · brumous



New ghazal.

"Osama Van Halen is a novel in which two characters from The Taqwacores, Rabeya the burqa-wearing riot grrl and Amazing Ayyub the Shi'a skinhead, decide to kidnap Matt Damon."

The dwarfish toilet. The picture puzzle of a beautiful jet at sunrise, tilting to turn. (How did you know it was sunrise and not sunset?) Back to the white noise of waiting on a car. Whether it will rain or not. How to stay comfortable in a chair not meant to sit in for hours.


" 'God used to be an urban Jew. He's back in the desert now.' " --Don Delillo, Falling Man
(2007)