These orchids bloom every year right around my birthday. This year they’ve come early, with three flowers emerging all at once. If only computers could convey scent. They smell as beautiful as they look.
Birthday Flowers
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!
~ Hafiz
Benevolent Beauty
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