Selected poems from 'Tabular Rasa' by Jeff Raheb

Havana       Paro Dzhong - Bhutan       Dal Lake - Kashmir       Bamboo       The Center       I Pour You A Cup Of Tea       For The Women Of Bosnia       You Say It Is Raining       Zimbabwe       The Comet       Pygmalion       Ganges       Nasca - Peru       Zu Twa Szi       Body Rain       The Shadow Puppet (Jogjakarta )                       Songkla - Thailand       5 Haikus

Body Rain We long to hide in the curvature of our passion Lips on lips I taste your Body Rain as it covers the anguish of our undoing We drink the hot fever burning youth and age in the smell of animal primeval But there is a word you speak It is a forgetfulness splitting ego like a slap under dreams the sleeplessness of fear Knifed edged memories carving into the passion fruit of our souls But our fingers entwine like our bodies and squeeze the venom out of our courage So that we may slip into a soundless awakening Copyright 2004 Jeff Raheb