November 2013

Some girls        on the other side of this planet

                   will never know        the loveliness

       of   walking      in a crepe silk sari.      Instead,

they will spend        their days                          on their backs

   for a parade               of   men           who...

The poor have the best views,
Views sloping down to sea.

A green and yellow planet,
A blue band, rung with stars.

The poor have the best views.
You have to walk to get there.

Up three flights, narrow paths,
Houses rising steeply side to side.

No, no...

Poor thing, she holds him on her lap,
the godless hidden god,

causing the lips
of   those that sleep to speak.

Cold shadow of   the white
acanthus in its tiptoe dance.

Buy the truth
and sell it not.

A lion is in the streets,
there is a lion in...