Peter Lucas Hulen

• hulenp@wabash.edu      

Hafiz

• R U M I
  • The Worm's Waking
  • The Guest House
  • The Waterwheel
  • This We Have Now
  • The Sunrise Ruby
  • I Have Such a Teacher
  • Only Breath
  • The Arc of Your Mallet
  • Come to the Orchard in Spring
  • Say I Am You
• H A F I Z
  • The Sun Never Says
  • When You Can Endure
  • If You Don't Stop That
  • Some of the Planets are Hosting
  • For Three Days
• K A B I R
  • Take a Pitcher
  • While You Are Alive
  • Wake Up
  • What You Have Lived Through
  • The Breath Inside the Breath
  • It Was Inside
  • It Still Holds On
  • A Secret One Inside
  • Inside the Body

IF YOU DON'T STOP THAT I used to live in A cramped house with confusion And pain. But then I met the Friend And started getting drunk And singing all Night. Confusion and pain Started acting nasty, Making threats, With talk like this, "If you don't stop 'that'— All that fun— We're Leaving."

Daniel Ladinsky, Tr., The Gift: poems by Hafiz the great Sufi master (New York: Penguin, 1999)