Wind
rolls into a soda can
rattles against Cedars
trees sway breezes

A gust throws sky into clouds
blows branches out of shadowboxed walls   [Read more…]

At a place called Cavo Greco
waves break inside rocks
sun foams from the mouths of caves
messengers are mistaken for their songs   [Read more…]

A hairline fracture
Was enough to free the grass –
Erupting sidewalk   [Read more…]

The gold has been hocked –
The furniture auctioned off –
Buddha meditates.
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Before human beings
followed the snake
winding through dry riverbed
stars were clocks

Before human beings
traced the calligraphy of butterflies
up hillsides ordained as villages
hours tolled
prayers   [Read more…]

You wilted
before the severely pruned branches
returned
before throbbing cuts healed

In earlier seasons
I wondered why anyone would plant a tree
they could not let grow?   [Read more…]

The shattered skull of Amathus
buzzes with invaders
from unexcavated countries

Visitors comb
temple splinters
whose gods have been sold
to the sirens of human immortality.   [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…]