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Jalal Al-Din Rumi1207–1273 “This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say.I don’t plan it.When I’m outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”—Who Says Words with My Mouth1 It’s no business of yours. Don’t assemble now. The words have lost their jugular— a cry, bereft, gurgling the blood …

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