In my world, “Christian” is another word for “bigot ( Read more... )

Iiiiiiiiit's Ramadan! Ramadan Kareem! (Have a Bountiful Ramadan) The DJs on the radio say this a lot. And it's all over billboards and mall banners ( Read more... )

Dear Idol Community ( Read more... )

Coffee shop. Or here, "café," one of eleven on the ground floor of the mall, the only one with Eggs Benedict. I’ve changed tables three times to get the combination of good chair and non-wobbly table, the waitstaff urging me to move to my preferred daily place when another patron gets up and leaves. Americans tip ( Read more... )

I wrote this poem in Varanasi, India, a few days ago, and read it at a poetry reading held by the students of Benares Hindu University. The theme of the reading was Identity And Crisis.___________________________________________________ ( Read more... )

(A gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Paintings on the upstage wall including, center, an especially erotic depiction of Leda and the Swan. A low bench downstage. The downstage wall, it is imagined, completes the room.

ELLIE, in the most awkward and least-attractive stage of her tweens, enters. She comes downstage, contemplates a ( Read more... )

(I'm participating in a writing contest. This is my first entry)

Here is what I think about God.

I think He is darn convenient when I am driving in the rain, my fingers gripping the wheel as if they can make my tires grip the road at 2AM, I should have stopped in Syracuse, two more hours of wet slick darkness until bed.

I think He is absent-minded ( Read more... )