Ghazal: Of Prayer
While her organs wrecked, she had a mouth full
of prayer.
It was stage IV & I didn’t understand the logic.
How, of prayer,
Of the softness between God’s hands, cancer
could slip in unnoticed.
Tributes
The Ghazal About _____
this ain’t a poem, but a treatise about ________
a manifesto for the people to shout ________
Ghazal of And
Sometimes, in school, I felt lonely thinking about conjunctions and
commas. The sentence ended before I knew it, but I wanted and.
The Venturi Effect
You may have thought, from visiting art shows,
that canyons squeezed together on their way
downstream.
Fractured Double Ghazal
I love a woman
whose hands are full of stars.
When passion flares,
I am a bowl of stars.
Triolet for Carol
So many things that still feel new
are old, and that’s the way it goes.