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things to think

A week of photos & poetry!

Think in ways you’ve never thought before
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you’ve ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.

Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he’s carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you’ve never seen.

When someone knocks on the door, think that he’s about
To give you something large: tell you you’re forgiven,
Or that it’s not necessary to work all the time, or that it’s
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.

Robert Bly

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some kiss we want

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of

spirit on the body.  Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling!  At

night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its

face against mine.  Breathe into
me.  Close the language-door and

open the love-window.  The moon
won’t use the door only the window.

Rumi

transl. by Coleman Barks