SPERIT
Faith
Reality
POETRY
Hafiz
Hulen
Kunitz
Oliver
RUMI
Worm's
Waking
Guest
House
Water-
wheel
This We
Have
Now
Sunrise
Ruby
I Have
Such a
Teacher
Only
Breath
In the
Arc of
Your
Mallet
Come to
the or-
chard in
Spring
Say I
Am You
 
I  HAVE  SUCH  A  TEACHER
 
Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of poverty,
having nothing and wanting nothing.
   
I am a naked man standing inside a mine of rubies,
clothed in red silk.
I absorb the shining and now I see the ocean,
billions of simultaneous motions
  moving in me.
A circle of lovely, quiet people
becomes the ring on my finger.
 
Then the wind and thunder of rain on the way.
  I have such a teacher.
 
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