Anger rises when you're proud/ of yourself. Humble that. Use// the contempt of others, and your/ own self-regarding, to change, like// the cloud in folklore that became/ three snake shapes. Or if you like// the dog-barking lion wrath, enjoy/ the hurt...

There is a small green island where one where one white cow lives/ alone, a meadow of an island.// The cow grazes till nightfall, full and fat, but during the/ night she panics and grows// thin as a single hair. "What shall I eat tomorrow? There's/ n...

What if I broke off a whole branch/ of roses? What if I lost myself in// the Friend? How would it be to have/ no faith? What if I picked a pick-/pocket's pocket? Does it mean any-/thing when a single basket is lost/ in Baghdad, when one wheat grain i...

There's a tradition that Muhammad said, "A wise man/ will listen and be led by// a woman, while an ignorant man will not." Someone too/ fiercely drawn by animal// urges lacks kindness and the gentle affections,/ that keep men human.// Anger and sharp...