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

FOR THREE DAYS Not many teachers in this world Can give you as much enlightenment In one year As sitting all alone, for three days, In your closet Would Do. This means not leaving. Better get a friend to help with A few sandwiches And The chamber Pot. And no reading in there or writing poems, That would be cheating; Aim high—for a 360 degree Detox. This sitting alone, though, is Not recommended If you are normally Sedated Or have ever been under doctor's Surveillance because of your Brain. Dear one, Don't let Hafiz fool you— A ruby is buried Here.

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