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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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