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The bird of paradise

Aisha lay in bed looking up at the crack in the plaster. The explosion had woken her up, silly of her to try to turn

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Fragility

Say ants. What made them small is time. They are old. They’ve seen catastrophes that dwarf all our storms combined, seen burning heat, bitter cold.

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Pressure cooker

No you can’t win. There is no brick wall to separate your faith from the neighbor’s lord. No field of energy to keep your border

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in progress

I work and I work. My hands wonderfully hurt as I fall deep into sleep the moment I lie down. And I dream of nothing.

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Two new videos

I shot these videos for my friend Colin whose work I truly admire. His songs are in my head all the time, and if you

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Armed innocently

My poem published here left me unsatisfied with the imagery of our weaponized nation, us accustomed to killing, but not to being killed in the

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Too dazed to comprehend

Streaming out in ones and twos in the dark night, in between reality and manufactured fright, we run for our lives. The masked man crackles.

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The Sign

During my daughter’s graduation ceremony I thought nothing of my mother’s tears of joy, I presumed. No, she said, I was remembering my own, no

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The Pilgrim

So he finally gathered his courage which merely fit in a side pocket and ventured south, in haze and heat. One laden bus after another

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Norooz

A little drunk perhaps from the lack of news, lucid nevertheless I wait. My long and cold legs tired from all the insults, warm to

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The Upcoming

Today, Jim Jones learns that they are coming to investigate. They have heard, here and there, that the people inside are tired of their fate,

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Not The Fool

This work was done for a well known musical outlet but ended up not being chosen. I set it to a different music (which is

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The Idea of Russia

Jim Jones says: to Russia? You think Russia is gonna want, no, it’s not gonna, it’s, it’s, it’s – you think Russia is gonna want

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Nightmare number 3

Grasping for air, my bane of morning, I suddenly wake up. I know I’m responding to my quick heartbeats as running in my sleep, but

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The first day

For some reason there was a vast desert in the heart of Tehran. I happened to look up, suddenly not occupied with mischief and fun.

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Oh, War

You taunt me. With nostalgia for what I remember it might have been. Your arguments. All make sense. but why do I always feel your

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The fight

Again I dreamed vividly, imagining the wait, or, the anticipation of the imminent fight. I was hesitant to say I would do it before. Knowing

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New video

video:   What you did to me I shall put down in words. You smoke the pot and I get stoned in your conspiracy. I

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The Book Of Job

So I got curious. Was there a parallel? I’ll summarize it for you. Job was rich, righteous and bright. To test him, God smote him

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