Peter Lucas Hulen

• hulenp@wabash.edu      

Kabir

• 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

The small ruby everyone wants has fallen out on
     the road.
Some think it is east of us, others west of us.

Some say, "among the primitive earth rocks," others,
     "in the deep waters."

Kabir's instinct told him it was inside, and what it
     was worth,
and he wrapped it up carefully in his heart cloth.



Robert Bly, Tr., Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007)