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published in Poetry Review, Vol 95
No. 1, Spring 2005
and in Poems in the Waiting
Room,
Ghazal
after Hafez
However large
earth's garden, mine's enough.
One rose and the
shade of a vine's enough.
I don't want
more wealth, I don't need more lies.
In the dregs of
a glass, truth shines enough.
What can
Paradise offer us beggars
And
fools?
What ecstasy,
when wine's enough?
Come and sit by
the
stream.
Rivers run
dry
But to carry
their song, a chine's enough.
For a poet
drowned in a world of books,
Any book with a
broken spine's enough.
When you're
here, my love, what more could I want?
Just mentioning
love in a line's enough.
Heaven can
wait.
Since you opened
the gate,
No heaven
however divine's enough.
I've no grounds
for
complaint.
As Hafez
says,
Isn't a ghazal
that he signs enough?
Mimi
Khalvati
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