Happy Holidays

Arseh Sevom will be taking a break over the holiday season. Have a good holiday and enjoy some poetry. We’ll get you started with one from The Gift, poems by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky:

When
The violin
Can forgive the pastIt starts singing.When the violin can stop worrying
About the future

You will become
Such a drunk laughing nuisance

That God
Will then lean down
And start combing you into
His
Hair

When the violin can forgive
Every wound caused by
Others

The heart starts
Singing.