My American Concubine
My American concubine gives me everything I need. She is sexy, soothing, and so so sweet. I like the way her nails scratch my scalp. How she traces the shell of my ear and whispers that I am loved. that…
Category Poetry
The Life They Choose Not To See
My greatest fear is not death,Nor clowns,Nor spiders.Nor snakes,Nor heights.Nor people,Nor places,But instead of life. So beautiful, they exclaim!Fools they are,Fools I say. Sickness and heartache,Longing to leave,Poverty and rape,That is the life they choose not to see. They drown…
The Settlers Came
Picketed fences claimed where once stood the frontiers’ defenses They came. White settlers came carrying colonial conquest They disposed and occupied, always on the defense The native-rooted resistance was foreign to them, for they could never understand “The land wasn’t given to us.…
Smoldering
Something is clawing at my throat for freedomIt is the prose of those silenced and draggedThe screams of injustice, now choking in my throatThe baffling befuddlement of a bankrupt soul stokes the flames of the rage in my soulThe same…
After Mosab Abu Toha
I saw the best minds of your generation squished like flies between headlines. Above: Sofia Coppola’s Latest Release? A Lip Balm. Below that: Three days after the Israeli military announced it was conducting “extensive strikes” on Hamas targets, the death…
Hunger for Holiness
I was born from hunger to feed your appetiteUnited from rib to make you wholeTear me to pieces until I satisfyChew my bones and eat my fleshFeast upon my insidesAbuse my creation From clay I was molded by the creatorGranted…
Irresistible Resistance
There lie gravitational magnitudes grounded in the fluidity of my speech.How words slip over intonations, substance, slip overlike hot honey pressed against skin that quivers in discomfort.I can’t help but glide in these verbal waltzes,dancing around these political playgrounds,with polarized…