The great, swirling fire of separation hath consumed me. Now, the powder that remains, O God, I beg of Thee, transmute it into the golden...

To have created a thing of such exultant physical beauty as the body of a woman, God is truly sculptor; but also we are lured into things...

Exorbitant amounts of sunlight soaked into my skin, baked raw and pining no more for a love outside myself. The sun is enough. I believe...

I wrote you a brief and painless poem, a shortest rapture; wounds, however, shine to me like scimitars in the Sun, like shining swords...

I am aware of clouds of envy in my heart, some cesspool of pain, blood clots of the memories I have of what was done to me. I am perfumed...

I am opened like the flood of the world; opened like the oyster retrieved from the bottom of the sea. But many waters have claimed me,...

I. There are forms that resemble you, murderous moments that cough you up, like the dilemma of a wheelchair or a table laid bare, barren,...

This quiet city built into the sand that rules with flat indifference in this place, I wander with my ravaged feet, my hands thrust into...

Engorge the salad. Sleepy afternoon dies and is reborn in the brief sunset. Burst the tomato whole in my mouth. Mellifluous melodies,...

I feel safe and floating in that time, miraculous and fleeting, my buoyancy like that of the sailer who owes his to the raft gliding over...