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

Thinkers, listen, tell me what you know of that is not
     inside the soul?
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down on the
     water—
now it has water inside and water outside.
We mustn't give it a name,
lest silly people star talking again the body and
     the soul.



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