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"Sufism."

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"On the way I'm reading
Jalaluddin Rumi, the poet born

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in Afghanistan, and I find the
lovely descriptions of travel

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in times when the
railroad didn't exist.

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Going from one American
coast to the other,

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I carry a Rumi in the
Coleman Barks translation

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as a whisper in a
witty Slavic accent,

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but I know just becomes clearer.

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As far as language goes, beauty
towers Japanese like snow

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over Denver, initiates go so
far as to claim the translation

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matches the original, and
that in line with this Sufism

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is available here in
a southern drawl."

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