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winterberries
ALL THE HEMISPHERES

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills

Open up to the roof
Make a new watermark on your
excitement and love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of
happiness and giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
lie beside an equator in your heart

Greet yourself
in your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide
and travel back home.

All the hemispheres in the heavens
are sitting around a fire chanting

While stitching themselves together
Into the great circle inside of you.

-- Hafiz