The Mirror Between Us
The mirror between us is breath mist when I speak.
Your face in water: I reach, the work grows muddy.
Even friend and beloved are wrong words for this.
Even ahhhhh retreats back into my mouth, the same if the moon's behind cloud or being released.
A pure silent look is better.
~ Rumi Ghazal (Ode) 1453 Version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin "The Glance" Viking-Penguin, 1999 |
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