Time breaks behind the eyes of All the things we know, All the griefs from long ago All the exoduses from our lives turned to

I take my prayers and start To kneed them into creamy dreams And from that rich texture I will sing encapsulating songs from the void

We bump along the edges of one another and begin to unwind into the thirsty children we once were. What a dream to be as

Still the silent midst of cold Calming cowering emptied into solitude Bunkers around another bitter night Guided by the lost ones led by bodies and

So I came to this land a stranger in my own mind, amongst 10 million strong just like me A people of an arid nation

The merciless knots of life have tightened their limbs over my aging heart as I have denied myself of this capture. And now, I have

The longest War standing between us Hangs like an impossible breath through immovable cracks in the concrete Through the eyes filled with pure holes The

  The father Who dreamed as much as stars dream to shine, To see the son who left for the city In search of a

Behind me on this sea of granite, tin flash and etiquette I find soap bubbles— I’ll send them off to you And flowerpots you left

You glide unthinkably A green end to a dark river You are the purpose that rain tastes this sweet You are my echo when I

As I build a boat and contemplate the capture of beauty of other worlds Far off like the one who wears the pride is power

The day I became “baby.” It was a pre-pubescent spring sunrise in early February and I had a visitor. Mom had never quite seen her

I sit in class and a friend shyly stares and asks: “What is it that you're thinking Arash?” And I calmly respond: “Nothing at all…”

The Shame I sent away for you You never came And when the dawn arrived and the plums fell with reckless abandon, when the leaves

Words that cage themselves in the belly of the beast Sunken beneath the foggy blue seas Seep that last breath from my homeless love And