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    "Baisakhi"

swallow your tears, Storm Kennedy
Her mansion in this fleshly nook
to adorn the palanquin of our dreams
and singing, startle the dull night

a drop of water shall turn into a pearl
the cynosure of neighboring eyes
you guys are incomparable O travellers
not of war only, but destructions rude

memories of my childhood still lend fragrance to my breath
edged with the poplar pale
we can't decide our destiny, can we?
i've never been in this morgue before


    "For and Against the Veil"

The more i cling to hope the more it slips away
the refuge of denial thins

so long since the last
i have to start afresh

man pregnant with
potholey future
redbuds in bloom


    "Miasmatic Portico"

A row of crosses running along Royal
i can see through you
see to the real you
pigeons and billowing curtains

in a spare polar light
while winds outside prance
and revel
and shred each other

i can see for miles
and miles
to go before i sleep
and the pale crosses tilt

some this way some that


    "Terrifying Weekend"

i ask no peace, i ask no quarter, and i give none;
the whirling mist of the gray drone shortage is well
at morning, noon, and night my mind's aware
as a python of the rabbit he swallowed is always
of all the burning thistles in the desert
and all the deserts full of ragged thistles
and all those whose flesh is torn. i forget
hough there are times i do deny it, i lose
much, as i am given much, and Mt Rainer is a mountain
only saw that once, on my departure,
but i am carried far from the sight of land
as crawling shadows land on the upper deck


The Salt Roads.


"If instead of showing strength by spending billions on weapons of war, the West was to build a mosque on Ground Zero, it would be a remarkable symbol of our understanding of the Islamic point of view. It would be a major step towards world peace."


" 'I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?'

--Invisible in what spectrum?."


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