Sunday, August 12, 2012

Human Friendship

Without a net, I catch a falcon
and release it to the sky, hunting

God.  This wine I drink today was
never held in a clay jar.  I love

this world, even as I hear the great
wind of leaving it rising, for there

is a grainy taste I prefer to every
idea of heaven:  human friendship.

-Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

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