11 Degrees of Fire: Other Fires that Burn
11 of 42 Days
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!
The Eastern shore
approaches
The Gypsy
aches
with
exhaustion
machines
ring, and push
and pull
the massive
vessel toward
its destination
The wild
spirit
tries
to break
through the
solid steel
the water
tries
to break in
to save its
hero
Only an
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!
— Hafiz
(from I Heard God Laughing, trans. Daniel Ladinsky)
The Eastern shore
approaches
The Gypsy
aches
with
exhaustion
machines
ring, and push
and pull
the massive
vessel toward
its destination
The wild
spirit
tries
to break
through the
solid steel
the water
tries
to break in
to save its
hero
Only an
ember lives
breathing stale
air
dreaming of
an inferno
a cold flame
in the darkness
Kori 2012
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