Sol 6.1

  1. I yearn to meet Abu Ali,

    yet he refuses to yearn for my company.

  2. And wine has been unveiled before us, until

    we have tired of the unveiling of fair-skinned virgins.

  3. And a day has yellowed the reproachers' faces;

    the faces of its suns mirror my pallor.

  4. And a river in which the waves frolic

    like horses frolicking amid clouds of dust.

  5. When the sun turns yellow upon it, we imagine

    the sweet water being mixed with wine.

  6. As though the water were a land of silver,

    overlaid with sheets of pure gold.

  7. And trees laden with cups,

    laughing together in red and green.

  8. When they see a sky in a river,

    they bestow on it stars of pomegranate blossom.

  9. So visit us: the fire of wine spares the

    drinking companions the twin fears of shame and fire.

Sol 6.1