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ALLAHU CIPHER SONG
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavensAnd all the beings there are upon the earthLike my arms and each hair and finger on themAnd my two eyes and all the worlds they seeAll they’ve seen wherever my feet have beenEach and all belong to me and I to all of themEvery blessed and profane…
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PAGODA
I returnto this peakand seed its soil,my fathermother,with the dustof a thousand landsso that this templemight becomethe blessed Kaabaof a new order.
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SHAHADAH
The fire crackled and glowered, penned in by the ring of stones. I gazed into it, descended into its depths until I could hear it as a roar that blocked out the world or the illusion of a world. The flames leapt forth from their bounds and charged outward, shrieking like banshees into every opening…
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MOUNT TOMORR
His is a fearsome face, sharp and disfigured, rocks assembled to conceal the absence of god, while we terrified monkeys flee to His stony skirt, clutching at its substantiality, even as an all-consuming hidden hole opens just on the other side. He loomed here long before I became aware, I just a blind protrusion of…
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ALPHABET OF THE GOD TO COME
I landed on this strange planetwhere every creature is branded,an eternal letter etched on its skin.No one knows their brand’s origin,Nor do they know what it means,each the sound from a languagethat doesn’t yet exist, but might one day.The letters will merge on an unknown dawn,And together form a poem of many lines.The words will…
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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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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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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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