Here's the Thing About Reading Hafiz
Here's the thing about reading Hafiz:
I can be completely up to my neck
with the unglamorous mud of life,
lonely, sad, and dreading whatever comes next,
when an unexpected three-word phrase from him
or just a single word,
playfully placed,
turns the ground beneath my feet
into the promised land, each step an arrival.
No longer tourist here,
I am now drinking deep with the man
in the backroom of a tavern far off the beaten path.
We toast the moment and a few things
that will never make it into this poem.
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at October 8, 2023 12:27 PM
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