Max Reif - Sufi Banjo Tunes (after Hafiz)

These little sufi
banjo tunes alive
are what it takes
to waken my heart.

What is that to you,
unless the life
in that plinking
of these little ditties

roils the dead, ordered
calm in your heart
and sets waves rolling
that threaten your control?

But why not just
join in and dance?

Max Reif

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