Omar Khayyan (47)

No one can pierce
the veil of mystery.
No one’s soul is aware 
of this arrangement.
Only in the heart
of the black earth
do we have a home.
A shame this story
isn’t short.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Whinfield 47

from Juan

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