Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Tent

                       Swakopmund, Namibia

Outside, the freezing desert night.
This other night inside grows warm, kindling.
Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust.
We have a soft garden in here.
The continents blasted,
cities and little towns, everything
become a scorched, blackened ball.

The news we hear is full of grief for that future,
but the real news inside here
is that there's no news at all.

--Rumi

1 comment:

  1. Easily my favorite photograph. Haunting, especially the image of the man running into the tent from the sea.

    And the poetry of Rumi sets the mood.

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