If your cellar is empty,
This whole Universe
Could drink forever
From mine!
Let’s dine tonight with exquisite music.
I might even hire angels
To play – just for you.
Look!
Hidden beneath your feet
Is a Luminous Stage
Where we are meant to rehearse
Our Eternal Dance!
And what is the price of my Divine Instruction?
What could I ask of you?
All I could ever want
Is that
You have the priceless company
Of Someone
Who can Kiss God
– Hafiz, “Someone Who Can Kiss God”, transl. Daniel Ladinsky from I Heard God Laughing
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Jonathan Erdman
Writer. In the summers, I live and work in the incredible state of Alaska, in the bush community of McCarthy, as the Executive Director of the Wrangell Mountain Center. When not in McCarthy, you'll typically find me in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, writing and working with local activists. My primary writing project right now is a novel set in remote bush Alaska, of the magical realism genre wherein an earnest and independent young woman finds a mysterious radio belonging to her grandmother, a device that has paranormal bandwidth and a disturbing ability to mess with one's mental stability.
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