"already tracing a vein to his heart"
Bell, Yusupova, Ahari, Anonymous, Rumi
Marvin Bell:
Lida Yusupova (tr. from Russian by Ainsley Morse):
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Mohammad Bagher Kolahi Ahari (tr. from Farsi by Alireza Abiz):
Anonymous woman’s landay (tr. from Pashto):
Unlucky you who didn’t come last night,
I took the bed’s hard wood post for a man.
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Embrace me in a suicide vest
but don’t say I won’t give you a kiss.
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (tr. from Farsi by Coleman Barks):
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