Grains of sand

1
Between the stones and the sky
Sweet dates
Shells for the sun.

2
Broken mountains
Rabid sun
Traces of Imam

3
Free of words
Not one bird
Only giant stones
Slanted
In the desert’s pot.
Lost meteorites
Hold in their mouths
The beginnings.

4
He had his home
At the edge of wind.
A tower
Wrapped in date leaves
With windows by the red desert.
Under our feet,
The sand as warm as bread.

5
Velvet dunes
Untouched tranquility
The birds ran
Under the sky’s tent.

6
The blind old man by the wady
Touches the stone
With his cane.
The earths’ eye
Sheds a tear.

7
Runaway odalisque,
The gaze.
Molten flake,
The step.
Between the dunes thighs,
The time has forgotten
Itself.

8
Stony hermits
In sandy beards
Weaving
The light.

Only I.

9
The soul
Hugs the sand intensely.
His woman,
A vertical shadow.

10
The green melts
Abruptly
In sun crucibles.
The edge of day cuts.

11
White between the rocks:
A man.
His woman,
Black flake.