Mystery Mail

Do you receive
messages from
The Mystery?

You know,
the ones
bearing a
different kind of
Forever stamp,
delivered by a
hummingbird or
a saxophone solo
floating
your way from
an open window
three houses
down or a
bit of language
braided into a
keychain with
a dangling
participle that
opens a
secret doorway?

I’ll show you
the last one
I received,
from a poet,
Jalal ad-Din
Mohammed
Rumi:

“You are not
a drop in
the ocean,
you are the
entire ocean in
a drop.”

Which I take
to mean
there is an
ocean of you
beyond the
drop in
the bucket
you make
your Self
out to be.

(Photo by Trollinho; UnSplash)