Outside drawn curtains
many different worlds
Outside drawn curtains
orange eyedrops of ink
punctuating pages
between leaves [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: New State of Being
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Illumination
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Mediterranean Sea
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Landlocked
oligotrophic sea of transparency
Sheer blue openness
incapable of fending off light [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Making Love
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Idyll of Pomos
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Personification of Wind
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces : My Life In Cyprus
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces : Double Edged
If a severed leaf
can dance in machete wind
both blades wield edges [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces : Carnival Season
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…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Home Grown Terror
Half-cocked
hiding behind a shirt
hollering, “US MILITARY”
brandishing a shotgun
at poetry
The point-blank verse
must have struck a weak spot
in his Kevlar chest [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Flamingo Exodus
Mountains swoop down
into clouds
Tributaries rain salt into lakes
Feathers of empyrean pink light
falling on water
Flocks of muddied footprints [Read more…]
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