to be swallowed whole,sheared off flesh and bones,dreams silt to sandpaper coasts,as if the looming day......

If you’re a refugee, you wrap it in fabric and faith You store it away...

Soil writes everything down; it uses dirt,the slaked faithfulness of water mixed with wet earth,grains, pebbles,......

Unchaperoned Woman Rhythm of her Earth in her steps Smell of Rain in Breath...

From a leaf in Paati’s diary, 4.12.1943 Learn to stop them mid-waylike pranayama,hold them until they......

Custodians of our Stories Night arrives, bare foot, slathers the ledge of our window....

he was mineuntil a company cleared our village,dug a Mine he now wears khaki i wear......

His legs jerking like a lizard’s tailwhile the cops tried to force-feed him,knew that the dam......

I was in excess of this order, more than bones I was arteries...

Haiku Muhammad orates to blue does, in paradise — wings of gold birds clang....