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ASCENT TO OLD SOLOMON
I took a walk up the mountain yesterday To visit Old Solomon in his black cube cabin Hidden under leaves and canopies of sky I was tested on my way by jumping rocks And divebombing horseflies and sunbeam spears Tossed from their source eight minutes ago To catch my vessel right where it would be…
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PALACE OF DREAMS
Felix arrives at work each dayDeep deep in the soil belowTwo miles beneath the surfaceThey built the office long agoThe exact time is classifiedSome call it Palace of DreamsDecoders complete their workHidden away from unworthy mindsWhere subconscious vibes ariseIt’s the place where dreams beginBubbling up from sunken brooksAnd passionate rivers of fireBrilliant men learned to…
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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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DOGMA
The sheikh took a drag from the unfiltered cigarette, then pushed the smoke through his pursed lips like a steam train. Then he replied: “This diversionary world branched from the real world 15 thousand years ago. It began as just a tiny aberration, a wall constructed around a garden in Mesopotamia, in order to conceal…
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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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A LOVELY SHADE OF GREY
Dr. Allen Jacobs sat in a street-side Trenton cafe in a salvaged old fur coat, a pair of cutoff shorts and a mickey mouse t-shirt watching the mayhem unfold. It started innocently enough, a lone man running down the busy New Jersey thoroughfare, trumpeting through pursed lips and holding his stiff, open-palmed hand out before…
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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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