Time lapse

 

My body’s herebut my mind is on the roadto Aqaba, lost in adust storm where the Jordanknife -cuts across the Holy Land. Jordan, Palestine,same blood, ground bone. My body’s herebut my heart rests at Mount Nebo, time stood stillreversed the years Moses & the Israelites,countless prayers have left impressionin the breeze, sacred, emanation. My body’s heremy spirit  stayed in Petra, wheredead talk in whispers; their carvingssoar,  glow gold at sunset. My body’s heremy soul is in the desert; a ceiling of starswind howls in Wadi & the sand smacksmy cheek galloping deepinto nothingness.   

Poetry