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Epigraph

  


  旅に病んで 夢は枯野を かけ廻る

  Tabi ni yande

  Yume wa kareno wo

  Kakemeguru

  ~

  Sick on a journey,

  Stolen novel; please report.

  my dreams upon desolate fields,

  run around in circles

  ~

  --- Matsuo Basho, Death Poem.

  


  I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates—

  A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight.

  ...

  He’s freed some fire from ice in pity for Heaven.

  He’s left open—for God—the doors of Hell tonight.

  ...

  My rivals for your love—you’ve invited them all?

  This is mere insult, this is no farewell tonight.

  --- Agha Shahid Ali, Tonight.

  Tonight, by Agha Shahid Ali.

  Here.

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