Startled by God

/ phyllishelland


Not like
A lone beautiful bird
These poems now rise in great white flocks
Against my mind’s vast hills
Startled by God
Breaking a branch
When His foot
Touches
Earth
Near
Me.

Hafiz
1320-1389

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