Fajr

I stand beside my window waiting for the call to prayer, waiting like a lover for a glimpse of the…

PRAYER AGAINST TWO DIMENSIONS

I don’t want to be one of those people folded over a cell phone screen like a larva, sucking from…

God I cannot picture you with breasts and the dark triangular bush from which I emerged, along with all. I…

Heaven knows I’m not proud of being a meat-eater, but something in me growls and snorts and licks its jowls…

They say raise your fist, stand in your truth, speak it loud and clear but I can only kneel in…

O father help me not to stare, wide-eyed, when my brother falls. Help me not to sniff his breath for…

What is a psalm a poem a prayer
if not a Wall Street ticker tape
our fear spelled out in numbers