1. A CUSHION FOR YOUR HEAD
Just sit there right now
Don’t do a thing
Just rest.
For your separation from God,
From love,
Is the hardest work
In this
World.
Let me bring you trays of food
And something
That you like to
Drink.
You can use my soft words
As a cushion
For your
Head.

2. THE SUN IN DRAG
You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the “mine” – that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi’s brilliant trick,
Though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
You are God in
Drag!

3. WHAT IS THE ROOT?
What
Is the
Root of all these
Words?
One thing: love,
But a love so deep and sweet
It needed to express itself
With scents, sounds, colors
That never before
Existed.