CONSPIRACY
After Baba Taher Uryan

Woe to my eyes and my heart
that have jointly conspired,
to crave for the beauties
the eyes have devoured.
A dagger I shall make
forged of steel,
to pluck out the eyes
that have desired.
And free the heart
that has conspired

Majid Tehranian
Cambridge, MA
March 27, 1995