14 Mar
2014
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Dropping Keys

There will be a full moon on Sunday, in honor of which I offer this, one of my new favorite poems from Hafiz:

The small man
builds cages for everyone
he
knows.
While the sage,
who has to duck his head
when the moon in low,
keeps dropping keys all night long
for the
beautiful
rowdy
prisoners. 

 

(image by Alicia Caudle)

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