Requiem for the Lost Seasons
In the Mojave heat moved like a fever
through light as if the dusk promised
another lake just ahead another body
of palms whipped by a last new moon
night’s fanfare of black ribbons
Requiem for the Lost Seasons
In the Mojave heat moved like a fever
through light as if the dusk promised
another lake just ahead another body
of palms whipped by a last new moon
night’s fanfare of black ribbons
Sound of Silence
after Simon and Garfunkel
listening to the city at night i trace the glow of its breath and
without light we dance shadow and pour through one another. in
hearing, in feeling, in arms’ reach.
Rites of Return and Ascent
Conceived in Kuwait, born in the South,
first memory is Damascus,
and the first and only time I saw Palestine,
I stood, bare feet on the pebbles of a dead shore,
reaching for a
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Hold
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