once upon a time you shoved the girls you shoved the other boys / you shoved the dreamer in the … More
Tag: prayer
Reflections on the Woodshed Year
For so much of the year I was laid up with an inexplicable knee injury, followed by a cancer scare. I suffered choking anxiety and severe depression. It seemed like nothing was happening. Certainly nothing good.
PRAYER AGAINST THE BINARY
god bless the man in platform boots god bless the woman in a tux what does man or woman mean … More
AUGUST LAMENTATION
Lord it’s hot. The words won’t come. It hasn’t rained in weeks, Lord. O Lord have you forgotten us?Down here … More
Prayer Built of Words
God sometimes I forget your first languageisn’t English. Not Arabic nor Aramaic–those words you had to learn. We taught youhow … More
Fajr
I stand beside my window waiting for the call to prayer, waiting like a lover for a glimpse of the … More
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 … More
INVOCATION OF GOD AS WOMAN
God I cannot picture you with breasts and the dark triangular bush from which I emerged, along with all. I … More
CARNIVORE’S PRAYER
Heaven knows I’m not proud of being a meat-eater, but something in me growls and snorts and licks its jowls … More
PRAYER BECAUSE MY LIFE IS NOT A MEME
They say raise your fist, stand in your truth, speak it loud and clear but I can only kneel in … More
