Equal
January 22, 2002
The Iranian
This is what happened:
The solitary man
with the light of two full moons
..............................................dangling
above his cheeks
and the worry of vanishing corn farms
..............................................on
his mind
and in his chest
..............................................cascading
waterfalls of inspiration
paused for a moment.
When he raised his head
the gossamer figure
gently watching him
............(its outline only slightly more delicate)
seemed a reflection of the self
he never indulged
.......................-- Always striving to be a
shadow
.......................to conceal the inconcealable
majesty within --
His voice
.............-- a tender murmur
veiled the thunders that
.............echoed only in the passages of his fingers.
The figure spoke to the man
in a foreign tongue
..........................miraculously comprehensible
to him.
Then he came closer
to embrace the shadow
..........................that uncanny likeness
and this is what happened that night:
the figure
..........................not a shadow
was real,
and of a woman
equal in waiting.
December 6, 2001
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