Poem: New Moon

How strange that it’s all based on the sighting
of the slightest
sliver of the moon!
The whole sky veils it then, only the
curved edge, like the
rim of [...]

2 Poems from 25th Ramadan (from Ramadan Sonnets)

AFTER AFTERNOON NAP
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Awakening from finally a Sunday afternoon nap
having a hard time actually getting up, from
weakness? From being an
empty lead weight? From mental
inertia at not being able to go
right into the kitchen and grab a cookie, or have the
institutional cup [...]

Ramadan Sonnet: Town

for Abdallateef Whiteman, village architect
An adobe wall, dust by dust, is built up
to surround the town.
A trail enters it from
desolate and wild surroundings.
A cut-off from the unpredictable and
unkempt in nature is made, a
boundary.
The town is [...]