A madman
has taken over the plane
forcing sheep
in business suits destined for Germany
to fly from Vienna to London
where they are herded
into Heathrow’s overcrowded stalls
for half a day
If they have 25 pounds
it will be sheered from their coats
for a bottle of water
and greasy bread crumbs
said to be fish [Read more…]
Flying back in time
to a man who grew out of himself
Knocked about by turbulence
until he passed through security
traveling lightly:
No baggage to search
nothing to declare
no allegiances to profess [Read more…]
Outside drawn curtains
many different worlds
Outside drawn curtains
orange eyedrops of ink
punctuating pages
between leaves [Read more…]
The first time
i heard the call to prayer
Nicosia’s Venetian walls
melted into mosaic pigments
colors bleeding into anonymity
The first time
i heard the call to prayer
i was released
from a prison of architectural semantics
Carried
above lilting cities of clouds [Read more…]
Imagine
landing sick in a country
where pharmacists
refer to themselves as chemists
measure medications
with their own hands
call customers by name [Read more…]
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Landlocked
oligotrophic sea of transparency
Sheer blue openness
incapable of fending off light [Read more…]
Outside a village
at the end of life’s busy road
an elderly couple
is making loukoumades
Squeezing barehands of dough
into moist spoons
[Read more…]
Eyes closed into hands
touching the womb
Grass grows greener
where the goddess of Pomos
bent legs in birth
arms stretched out
over infant earth [Read more…]
Smoke
hangs over the globe
Blame it on winds
personified by names
originating in uncrossed deserts
howling: seas
Winds
that are said
to carry
a sandstorm of maladies misfortunes [Read more…]
Look
at Spartan me
washing socks by hand
hanging myself out to dry
Subsiding on Lahmajoun
and clay cups of Cypriot poetry
blacker than aniconic stone [Read more…]
If a severed leaf
can dance in machete wind
both blades wield edges [Read more…]
It’s embarrassing
to be an American abroad
when Trump vomits swastikas
on covers of European newspapers
It’s always carnival season
in Washington: [Read more…]
