| The Better One Sohrab Sepehri |
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| Translated from the Farsi by David Grayson & Salim Madjd mp3 reading of original poem by Salim Madjd She arrived at the foot of the mountainous night. The bright ringing of her footsteps shattered the mirror of emptiness. I raised my hand in the sorrowing darkness and pointed to the hollow galaxy of loneliness. The falling-star look in her eye was dead. I pointed to the dust of caravans and the glow of side roads and the infinite gravel-lands of silence, too, and she . . . |   | |||
