SADALMELIK

SADALMELIK (Alpha Aquarii)

I tell
you that the stars
have Arab names

and that we might
calculate their distance
thanks to your algebra
.
Zero too
    is a

beautiful concept

so much zero here
across these desert sands

there was life
but something subtracted it

bodies abound
        even the sky fireworks
and shock waves

somehow
       fails to wake them

arabesque
algorithm

the stars, the bodies
have Arab names

luckiest of the lucky
   down to zero this night
in Palestine.

I tell you
the stars have Arab names.