Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Magician

Magician

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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Marble-chiseller, figure-maker

is the Wind;

Long is the story of his affairs

with the Cloud.

Every moment gives her

a new strange shape;

The whimsical wit

Is a great magician

in his practice of the art.


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