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To the Persian Poets For Sarah Johnston What rights have I, trespassing in your rooms, Pilfering your lines, sifting your sacred dust, Searching for what you were and are not now? As if I came to where Achilles flickered, Drawn by the blood Odysseus spilt for him. But, in another tongue, a stranger speaks, The revenant who shows me what I am; In whose hermetic words I recognize The animals and angels of my heart, My happiness, my longing, my despair.  You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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