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6 The Persian Poet’s Recipe for Qormeh Sabzi Quick! Hide this ghazal deep in your Qur’an. (Terrorists don’t understand the Qur’an.) Would you eschew convention? Follow these Lines to a place where truth, at its core, can Enjamb ghazal couplets, proclaim an end To Ramadan, and dine on the Qur’an. Stew meat, spinach, onion, parsely, tareh, Fenugreek, black-eyed peas, peppercorn and . . . I know; I shouldn’t be making this. Not The food, this ghazal game of the Qur’an. Call me Cat in the Hat or Gorbeigh dar Sabzi (cat in the stew) or a whore and A hack, subverter of sacred causes. Sentenced to sentences in the Qur’an, I will surrender, eat the dish I’ve made, Recite the ghazal hid in the Qur’an. (I didn’t try to write it, the words came The way the prophet transcribed the Qur’an.) Pure agency, I arrive in Mecca Both here and there: the world is my Qur’an. Oh, Hallaj, your blaspheming the Qur’an Affirms your close reading of the Qur’an. ...

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