Ghazal: At Rumi’s Tomb
A sky shaped like a face – no it can’t be that A wingéd horse on fire in the middle of the air –…
Aesthetic
AESTHETICÂ
Poetry is what can’t be said
any other way
Verse is thoughts searching for poetry
8/23/2004 (from Cooked Oranges — image of creature by Salihah Moore, Lion of the Sea)
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