Drowsy, awake to everything, out of myself, inside you, the work of your wine vat where the grapes are invisible.
All one sees is stained feet tromping about, making a juice different from ordinary grapes. This wine gives no hangover.
But don't condemn yourself for living in left over stupor. Someone built and set the hangover trap you find yourself in!
It's the bottom of Joseph's pit, where he becomes medicine, a clean tent, a field of stubble and shine.
Shams is winter daylight. I more resemble the long night coming after.
~ Rumi (Drowsy) Ghazal (Ode) 1457 Version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin "The Glance" Viking-Penguin, 1999
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