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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Mosul Soul



Kufic : Google Images





Long before ceasefire
from all ends
this soul
is a worn torn city


Rubble and ruins
of homes
and dreams
heartbeat is sometimes
akin to gunfight

The Mosul walls
and the Kufic love
 Tigris of time
full of  corpses

lonely burials in the snow
in Baramulla
and Kabul
choosing tombstones
by scores

once a soul
becomes its own coffin
only then
 the war is no more.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Presence/Absence




Healing and healers
dreaming and dreamers

and the in betweens
the could have beens
the never beens

the journeys
of bodies and souls
and the dreams

deep in the
Australian outback
a cave painting
or in a forsaken monastery
like a mummified monk

memories
homes, solaces
and tombs

all transitory
like a bird
on a wire

only the shaking
much after
knows its presence.



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