What Should We Do...?

What Should We Do About That Moon?

A wine bottle fell from a wagon

And broke open in a field.

That night hundreds of beetles and all their cousins

Gathered

And did some serious binge drinking.

They even found some seed husks nearby

And began to play them like drums and whirl.

This made God very happy.

Then the 'night candle' rose into the sky

And one drunk creature, laying down his instrument

Said to his friend - for no apparent

Reason,

"What should we do about that moon?"

Seems to Hafiz

Most everyone has laid aside the music

Tackling such profoundly useless

Questions.

Hafiz

translation by Daniel Ladinsky

All photographs by Baya Clare, CSJ unless otherwise noted.