Rule 42 — Caldwell 69
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I feel like the ground, astonished
at what the atmosphere has brought to it. What I know
is growing inside me. Rain makes
every molecule pregnant with a mystery.
We groan with women in labor.
The ground cries out, "I Am Truth" and "Glory Is Here,"
breaks open, and a camel is born out of it.
A branch falls from a tree, and there's a snake.
Muhammed said, "A faithful believer is a good camel, always looking to its master, who takes perfect care."
He brands the flank.
He sets out hay.
He binds the knees with reasonable rules,
and now he loosens all bindings and lets his camel dance,
tearing the bridle and ripping the blankets.
The field itself sprouts new forms,
while the camel dances over them, imaginary
plants no one has thought of,
but all these new seeds, no matter how they try,
do not reveal the other sun.
They hide it.
Still, the effort it joy,
one by one to keep uncovering
pearls in oyster shells.
- "The Ground Cries Out", in The Essential Rumi: New Expanded Edition, trans. Coleman Barks (Harper Collins, 2004), 39-40.
at what the atmosphere has brought to it. What I know
is growing inside me. Rain makes
every molecule pregnant with a mystery.
We groan with women in labor.
The ground cries out, "I Am Truth" and "Glory Is Here,"
breaks open, and a camel is born out of it.
A branch falls from a tree, and there's a snake.
Muhammed said, "A faithful believer is a good camel, always looking to its master, who takes perfect care."
He brands the flank.
He sets out hay.
He binds the knees with reasonable rules,
and now he loosens all bindings and lets his camel dance,
tearing the bridle and ripping the blankets.
The field itself sprouts new forms,
while the camel dances over them, imaginary
plants no one has thought of,
but all these new seeds, no matter how they try,
do not reveal the other sun.
They hide it.
Still, the effort it joy,
one by one to keep uncovering
pearls in oyster shells.
- "The Ground Cries Out", in The Essential Rumi: New Expanded Edition, trans. Coleman Barks (Harper Collins, 2004), 39-40.
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