Peter Lucas Hulen

• hulenp@wabash.edu      

Rumi

• 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 WATERWHEEL
	Stay together, friends. Don't scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake. The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. That way it stays in the garden, whereas another roundness rolls through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants. Stay here, quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury.
Coleman Barks, Tr., The Essential Rumi (San Fransico: Harper Collins, 1995)