Dear Srimatiji
You often said to me When we were face to face in Chicago “No worry” So I write to you far away With beaming confidence “No hurry”
Category: No Time for Poetry but Exactly What Is
Ramadan (Guests)
Dear Night Who’ll Endure More Than Fourteen Hundred Medical School Nights We do home-stays here Like many before us And some will continue after we leave Breaking the fast at Abu Hamid’s home On the…
“People Know My Lai”
Cal wrote to Carla Nguyen and me in an email: “People know My Lai (Or they think they do) People over 60 or so Remember the name Calley But what about the others? I don’t…
How to Live
Jesus had his devotees Dipa Ma had her devotees Pat Geier has her devotees Jesus sat with people Dipa Ma sat with people Pat Geier sits with people Jesus placed his hands on someone in…
Some of What’s Not on Your CV
Your allusive ode to your soul-pal (“I am because you are”) That incendiary haiku you gave to Mona on the porch What prompted your most intense torrent of tears That photo of the blissed-out Hindu…
What Some People Say
Dear Rob Figured you’d enjoy this Since You’re motley like me Getting my near worthless 1976 BMW 2002 fixed at the AutoHaus I was sitting in the waiting room going over my Yiddish vocab When…
In a Parallel Universe/3
Sister Diana Ortiz put her arm Around one of the Hijazzi brothers Who’d recently gotten out of an Israeli prison And whispered to him, “I know…”
A Former Student Has Her Say
I was foolish to think I could get anything done in that café Someone invariably would come up to me and want to talk Like that Thursday, M marched right up to my table And…
In a Parallel Universe/2
Franz Kafka was seen walking briskly Into the Old City at Damascus Gate Late as usual for his Arabic instruction
In a Parallel Universe/1
Avigdor Lieberman said that the Baptist minister should be deported Thus Dr. Martin Luther King retorted: Injustice anywhere in the West Bank Is a threat to justice everywhere