[here's to getting at the bones of it] - poem

This is the 6th poem of mine that was published on archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. All of the poems published on Archipelago are from a manuscript written in Syria titled "The Toll."

The typography of this poem is very helpful in understanding it. To see this poem and others, you can download this PDF file:

www.archipelago.org/vol10-12/archipelago10.1-2.pdf

This video was recorded late at night, under the poetic compulsion that only arises at such an hour.

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[oliverakhan]

The comment is much appreciated. I see you're breaking the poetic space of youtube as well. I look forward to listening to your poems.

[PoetryisNews]

lovely poem and lovely reading-- "house fire acts"-- I love the spaces that open up between the word-chains, the lines that travel image to image as the words switch by sound...

[oliverakhan]

what?

[Silvianoshei]

I like the masjid too.