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Asher

Karbala

: Karbala estranged from me;
: I long to see you through the symmetry
: of gauze squares.

: To make absence burrow.
: To make absence brood.
: To make ab/sense.

: Karbala outside the sacred precincts,
: I felt the earth beneath you soften.
: Now, look on the stony ground,
: at the bolt of black clothe weaving
: a highway. My eyes are green,
: you tell me.

: To make absence follow.
: To make absence freeze.
: To make absence fallow.

: Karbala, the sacrosanct
: is surrounded; quails are returning
: to their nets.
: Karbala, split open
: like a desiccated seed.

: Say Eng/lish.
: Say commerce.
: Say skirt.

: Our bolt of black clothe is weaving
: a highway.
: Karbala, I long to sink
: my feet into earth again.

: Say bucolic.
: Say pockets.
: Say, Karbala you burn.