NAMES
You should try to hear the name the Holy One has for things .
There is something in the phrase: "The Power taught him names ."
We name everything according to the number of legs it has;
the other one names it according to what is inside .
Moses waved his stick-he thought it was a "rod,"
but on the inside its name was' 'dragonish snake . ' ,
We thought the name of Blake was "agitator against priests,"
bur in eternity his name was' 'the one who believes ."
No one knows our name until the last breath goes out.
James Wright
SAYING DANTE ALOUD
RUMI
Version by
Robert Bly
,
'Blake '
,
is used here instead of
the Caliph
((
'Umar. "
You can feel the muscles and veins ripple in widening and rising
circles, like a bird in flight under your tongue.
