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HIDDEN VIRGIN
She’d been hidden away in a pile of clandestine manure on the parcel of some anonymous village farmer and forgotten, in the time when even her mention could mean death, and she sunk deeper into obscurity with each drop of spilt blood, with each burned page, each brick smashed, each letter gone up in smoke,…
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APOCALYPSO
She wore ninety nine veilsCovering every part of herThe drums began to pulseThe flutes began to flutterThe first veil droppedNinety eight more to goHypnotic hours and epochsWe’ve been lost in our lustIt’s not what we can seeThat draws our eyesBut what we can’tWhile one veil remainedWe could still each imagineOur own private paradiseJust beyond that…
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER
Around and around the pilgrims marchIn narrowing circles around the sacred cube(Any old object will do, all of them sacred cubes)Tunneling down from the mundane surfaceThe face that masks the multitudesTeeming and restless in the hidden depthsThe hujjaj spiral down, down, and downAnd down, down, down, and down a seventh timeUntil they’re standing eyeball to…
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EPIPHANY OF THE MAP
It found me unexpectedOne day standing in qiyamUnfurled there before my eyesI spy the eternal sketchThe map I’ve been searching forThey said it marked out treasuresCherished by all human heartsAll the sages testifiedFind that map, the world is yoursI sailed all the seven seasTraversed every continentOpened so many volumesAnd raided so many gravesTo find that…
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THE MIRACULOUS LETTER
There is a letter in the Qur’anA centuries-old secret,Passed down from mouth to earAnd day to century, and againRemaining a secret now, foreverI won’t reveal, can’t revealWhich one it is, don’t knowThe arcane mix of letters or whatConstellation of moods and starsUnlocked that hidden gateThe sages thought it would openA window to the real worldBeyond…
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A/THEOGONY
A hundred thousand and twenty four moreGather in depths of soil and skyGods fled the rupture’s darkening oddsConceal themselves from the sultan’s eye The first walls raced across the terrainCleft the earth and split the landsWrangling green gods in rigid linesAnd animal gods in prison bands We must take action the sun lords criedPrevent the…
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ANNIHILATION, THE FIRE
The flames are extinguished at lastStill I smell the smoldering remnantsOf a nine hundred ninety one year questAll of those journeys, all of that timeNow like the fading echo of his voiceSheikh Shams, the too-bright sun shiningAcross centuries, a mischievous tricksterChant this dhikr, he said, it will teach youThe long-sought secret of life and deathI…
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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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ESCHATON
The eschaton was born from a microscopic holeIn the recoiling ground of paradiseWhere the once-bitten apple struck it,Black seed of destruction to come,Pregnant mother of hope.The children of men shrunk backFrom this riot of the godsThey erected towers to plug the gapAnd paved the latitudes and longitudes,But the divisions only widened and spreadRaining down from…
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THE TWO WORLDS
There are two worlds in our cosmos: No-World and One-World. The inhabitants of One-World think that their world is the only true world. It is reality and life. They can see the shores of No-World from their places, but it appears to them a bleak wasteland, a place worse than death, the opposite of existence.…
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