Bone Fire Dhabiya Khamis for what comes next

for what comes next

March 06 – paperback March 07 – US edition April 07

A silence hangs in the heart of it

to modestly developed springs in fields or on the deserted coastline come healing wells

With his dexterity as a writer

Bone Fire Dhabiya Khamis for what comes nextThe bones are the bones of the poet integral to the landscape of her body. The bones are the spines of trees, the bone white of the moon. They belong to the hawk, the blackbird, the lion and the deer. They are, too, the bones of the dead and discarded, the martyred and maimed and the simply inconvenient. They are the bones of the forgotten, who have not forgotten us. The fire is love and lust a lovers tongue, a naked woman. Its the red stones of a