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A Close Distance

Echo  Time zones and oceans divided us, but your voice still echoed with my pulse. Now time zones, oceans, and heavens divide us, but your voice still echoes with my pulse.  * * * * On July 24, 2013, Mahmoud Ostadmohammed passed away. He was a great playwright, actor, director, writer, teacher, and more importantly […]

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The Sweetest Eve

Lightning struck a sugary apple tree on a snowy mountain. The hungry flames raged as they sought to be fulfilled, trees went ablaze. The snow kept returning, kept falling, in the ebb and flow of the rising flames and the falling snow your image appeared. You are the mistress of the elements. You are the […]

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Mr. Unknown

Mr. Unknown his flesh is composed of twisted and crumbled paper, which interlock to form his body, a body, which is covered with a wrinkled skin of glue. Mr. Unknown his veins are a bunch of pens burned and fused together, twisting and turning within, they are stained with ink, not blood. Mr. Unknown his […]

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Feathery Skies

On a clear day if you look at the sky with imaginative eyes you might see millions of blue doves lined up in columns and rows with their wings spread wide apart and sewn together feather with feather, one blue dove with another. I shall return, return from my journey, I shall return to your […]

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Deer One

Deer One, lost in the forest of my soul, drinking from the puddles of honey-water, that rain from the clouds of love, which have become sore and swollen under my skin . . . . Deer One, lost in the forest of my soul amongst the trees of desire, which are rooted in my spirit […]

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Phoenix

We are the fire under the ashes. One day we will rise and burn you.

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The Rise

My brown eyes like the exterior of two rifles, my ink-black pupils have become two dark barrels. My pupils dilate, reloading, my whole body shakes, my soul screaming, that beast within, war cries…. Firing looks, driving away those who drove you away from me. Fists clenched. The march is on.

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Lightning Fangs

I lie in front of the electric womb, staring at it, as if there is an umbilical cord of radiating light wrapped around my stomach like a glowing snake clinging to my navel with its fangs, feeding me bubbling images of light like venom, poison nourishment. My knees pressed up towards my chest, my fading […]

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Blanket

My soul is your blanket, wrap it around your body, it will protect you from life’s cold rains. It will protect you from the frigid winds that make you shiver. My soul is your blanket hold it close to your heart and feel its warmth, feel its warmth guard you from any storm. My soul […]

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Away

When all ends, our hands will be clenched together. When all ends our hands will be clenched together. Even if they build the wall of time between us, each brick a clock, which ticks louder than a mother’s scream…. On one side I remain the eternal prisoner of darkness and night, on the other side […]

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