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I think I'll read the next poem.

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It's called "Broken Ghazals."

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Probably, many of you know
what ghazals are right?

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It's a form that I
don't really know

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a lot about but it
was developed in,

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I think, in Iran, in Persia.

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And it's supposed to
be two-line stanzas,

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each stanza is complete in
itself, but a string of them

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has a kind of oblique
interrelationship.

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I call these broken ghazals
because although they have

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an underlying two-line
stanza, I broke up those--

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most of those two lines
with indentations,

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so it doesn't look exactly
like a two-line stanza.

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But the feeling I was
after was akin to what

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I take to be the feeling,
tone, of a ghazal.

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"Broken Ghazals."

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"Each life spins into its own
orbit, rain of meteor showers,

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sparkle of some
brittle desire, is it?

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The stab of deep pain?

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Not without tearing
a few fibers,

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the magnet forces pull apart.

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I. He.

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Being is not referential.

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I wake.

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Instant recollection, a shadow
threatens my son's life.

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Others slide their
elongations toward his spirit.

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My being, unconformable to
his perception, moves on.

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Awake, I keep waking.

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He survives and leaves,
moving through the apparition

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he sees and away from it.

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Again waking, I stretch a hand
out to stop the warning clock.

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Time is another country.

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Squinting toward light,
a tree has filled it

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with green diamonds.

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Or there's the air,
bemused, new fallen snow.

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Shock waves over music I don't
hear as you don't hear mine.

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How they beat on the sea wall."

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