God clapping wildly

Wherever

God lays his glance

Life starts

Clapping

                Hafiz  (The Gift, p.85)

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my children used to talk about

the dad look

that look in my eye that would emerge

when things had gone

far

enough

I used to think that the Sacred One

was constantly giving me

that

look

tired of my erring ways

but now I know

that the Sacred

is more like a grandfather

who has trouble seeing anything wrong

with this beautiful child

and who claps wildly

at every

little

feat