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Unless one takes up the matter of apprenticeship
To love, one will never kiss the winecup’s gleaming lip.

Click here to read the full ghazal #100 and commentary.

When we have become tired of the mind’s shiny new toys
I’ll seek the adult occupation which manhood enjoys:

Click here to read the full ghazal #101 and commentary.

There are two things that concern all men: tomorrow’s bread
And a star to shine in that darkness we call our bed.

Click here to read the full ghazal #102 and commentary.

The wells are drying up, but the mercy of God flows on;
The dust storms obscure the sun, but the shining Word goes on.

Click here to read the full ghazal #103 and commentary.

Don’t talk to us about science and spirituality;
That subject is the eggheads’ and egglets’ partiality.

Click here to read the full ghazal #104 and commentary.

They have taken us away to a desolate land
In the midst of waste waters, an island of sand.

Click here to read the full ghazal #105 and commentary.

Just before sunset a beautiful blue cloud snapped the gold chain
Which imprisoned it and poured down a huge, still, warm rain.

Click here to read the full ghazal #106 and commentary.

The burden of dust is the hardest burden to bear—
Dust that has a heart and nerves and eyes which stare and stare.

Click here to read the full ghazal #107 and commentary.

When the wheel of fortune stopped at my number I did not ask
Another turn—it had completed its billion years’ task.

Click here to read the full ghazal #108 and commentary.