۞ the polished mirror

the polished mirror — Sufism, the cousin who lived next door: dhikr beside Abulafia's tzeruf (a probable historical wire), the lataif gathered around the heart, the 99 Names with the hundredth withheld, fana beside bittul, Rumi's turning beside the hakafot — and the documented meetings: Abraham Maimonides' pietist circle, Safed in Ottoman Galilee. Three models in Sufism's own geometry: the turning, the hearth of centers, the rope of Names.