Above the Sea of Fog

My Brilliant Image

One day the sun admitted,

I am just a shadow.

I wish I could show you

The Infinite Incandescence

That has cast my brilliant image!

I wish I could show you,

When you are lonely or in darkness,

The astonishing Light

Of your own Being!

From I Heard God Laughing, Renderings of Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

When Birds Come Back

These are the days when Birds come back —

A very few — a Bird or two —

To take a backward look.

These are the days when skies resume

The old — old sophistries of June —

A blue and gold mistake.

Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee —

Almost thy plausibility

Induces my belief.

Till ranks of seeds their witness bear —

And softly thro' the altered air

Hurries a timid leaf.

Oh Sacrament of summer days,

Oh Last Communion in the Haze —

Permit a child to join.

Thy sacred emblems to partake —

They consecrated bread to take

And thine immortal wine!

~ Emily Dickenson

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