Nebulous & Fleeting
What if I were nebulous and fleeting, gone, wise in my destruction, lost unto the World? I would evade Reason but satisfy the Soul with...
The Way
I behold, electrified, my God in Word translated into flesh and heart. I shall be, soon, a carcass and be gone into Their Worlds of...
The Cactus
The cactus, the ultimate emblem of resilience, I worship with my heart clogged up in my throat and coughing the petrol of death, of every...
In Wintry Days
Angelic stillness of snow. My silk imaginations I spin in ode to the Song, the soft flakes falling, white, out of the ashen Sky. And what...
The Price
Oh, the price of my honesty: pennies, coppers, no, it is much, much more than this, than that: I begin to long again for that era of...
O love
I. O love, you do not know the names of men who've trodden searing sands in search of thee. Your cruelty exists alone, in the fact of...
Happiness
A fabricated happiness I see in the eyes of the blind. 09/03/2016 Addis Abeba Bole International Airport
The Fire of Separation
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...
One in Light
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
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...