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In the Museum at Teheran

a sentimental curator has placed  
two fragments of bronze Grecian  
   heads together boy
 
and girl so that the faces black–
ened by the three thousand years of  
   desert sand & sun
 
seem to be whispering something  
that the Gurgan lion & the wing–
   ed dog of Azerbaijan
 
must not hear but I have heard  
them as I hear you now half way  
   around the world
 
so simply & so quietly more like
a child than like a woman making  
   love say to me in
 
that soft lost near and distant voice  
I’m happy now I’m happy oh don’t  
   move don’t go away.
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