Poets in Hats (Mikey West and Bill Gainer)
—Photo by Katy Brown, Davis
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I WANT BOTH OF US
—Hafiz
I want both of us
To start talking about this great love
As if you, I, and the Sun were all married
And living in a tiny room,
Helping each other to cook
Do the wash,
Weave and sew,
Care for our beautiful
Animals.
We all leave each morning
To labor on the earth's field.
No one does not lift a great pack.
I want both of us to start singing like two
Traveling minstrels
About this extraordinary existence
We share,
As if
You, I, and God were all married
And living in
A tiny
Room.
(Translated from the Farsi [Persian]
by Daniel Ladinsky)
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—Medusa
Allegra Silberstein, Kathy Kieth, Joyce Odam,
Trina Drotar, Carol Louise Moon
—Photo by Katy Brown
