a message from Rumi

3-31-96

don't come looking at these feet
don't come and sit at the edge of these words
as they dance around you
removing veils one at a time

this is not the grand feast
that will satiate all your hungers
this is merely an invitation
a postcard
a photograph that catches one moment
not the full blistering bliss

remove your clothes and stand in the rain
maybe then you will catch fire