DRAWN
I’m drawn
to divided cities
where roads end in amputations
town squares cleaved
lives bifurcated
Walk into walls
that ache with separation
anxiety oozing through bricks [Read more…]
DRAWN
I’m drawn
to divided cities
where roads end in amputations
town squares cleaved
lives bifurcated
Walk into walls
that ache with separation
anxiety oozing through bricks [Read more…]
Didn’t know
I arrived
because I never left Olympus
No need for words
when the mouth is full of baclava from Damascus
dried apricots and cinnamon
aged in oak casks [Read more…]
The dead
rattle windows
open doors
lie down next to the residents of Paphos [Read more…]
At midnight
a door in darkness opens
light is dispensed –
from one candle to another
carried through streets
starved by the austerity of shadows [Read more…]
The wine is in my blood
I drank from its cup long ago
Blown to beach by storm
I sacked the island
for my shipwrecked bride
left the vanquished in silver chains [Read more…]
THE NEW COLD WAR
Icy axe of air
hacks through pink cherry blossoms –
white marble flurry [Read more…]
A gust of air
rushed walls
blew open the bound city
rustled through pages
turned over
Leaves [Read more…]
RAIN’S RECUSAL
Rain recused itself
continued to pour landlocked
into cloud cover [Read more…]
Rain
washes out mouths of mines
foaming white arsenic
stitches a lavender shroud
on Black Mountain [Read more…]
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