A Line from Kahlil Gibran’s “On Law”
from The Prophet Interrupted by Haiku
What of the ox who loves his yoke
Of an ox in love—
accidentally plowing
his farmer’s neighbor’s field
and deems the elk and deer of the forest
Without the elk to
talk to farmer begs his ox
to listen for rainUnder the forest’s
canopy the deer regard
the weight of the yoke
stray and vagrant things?
—CX Dillhunt
