Explore Poems: Religion

We believe in our soul
More so than our visible, touchable flesh
We believe in our soul, as if we had …

将一盏灯送进

石窟，也别忘了
带一把青稞。

将一棵菩提
栽上壁画，也别忘了
供一碗净水。

将一尊佛像请进
敦煌，一定别忘了
养一对羔羊。

菩萨不会走。
可万一走了，这些
就是我们疼痛的拌料。

我们如此确信自己的灵魂
比我们看得见，摸得着的肉体
更为确信，仿佛我们真的见过她
亲手抚摸过她，弯下身来为她洗过脚
在夜间闻过她腋窝里的汗味
在清晨听过她的哈欠声与唇语
我们如此确信我们的灵魂
确信她比我们的肉体更…

is just a garden, really.


A plot of land where you might reach down
to touch the snow

and crystallize.


 …

Please bring a light

Into the grotto cave, please don’t forget
To bring a handful of barley.

Please plant…

Within this simple chapel, located near the navel
of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
of…

          Can I still call you
                    Emily? Not long after
we last saw each other, I too changed

          my name. Dropped …

Stiletto melon collies, a tinsel mystic streaks our homeplace.

Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…

You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…

،لم يكن الوقتُ كافياً لتعلّمِ العزف مثل خطاكِ وهي تصعدُ درجَ البيت
،أو الغناءِ المقفى وأنت تغسلين ا…

Not enough time to learn how to play an instrument that
sounds like your steps climbing the stairs at…

I walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…

Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i  doo   naadą́ą́.
Naadą́   niłch’i
Doo     Sodizin.
Niłchi     adiin             goo
Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…

only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …

Ats’iist’in shighan
            Baa hooghan
Shił hodiik’aad
            ‘Àdineeshtįįł bee
Sodadilzin
            ‘Aanii t’áá
                        ‘Aanii t’áá…

Skeleton house
            Church
I am homesick
            I am teaching myself
To pray
            It is true
                        It is true
                                    It is true.
 
 Translated…

chahóółhxeel
sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
nahookǫs bikǫ’
binaago deikaah
sǫ’ binahjį’
hane’ náás oot’ih

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend…