1. Bodies of rock buried in rock
Matching yet differing in color

2. Tell tales of past awakenings
Glimpsed beneath green robes

3. Their edges imbued with ink
Like the murky dregs of wine

4. I crawl on their dusty tails
Crawling like a lion who’s spied a leopard

5. They gush if the pot boils over
With eyes like locusts from Khazar

6. Or halves of tiny insects
Or a sword in which iron flows

7. Rising and swooping like a flower
As if the night cleared for dawn

8. Their shuddering brows revealed by embers
While all else lies bare

9. Adorned only with unbelief
Tombs whose time cannot run out

10. In earth shaped by hands of fate
Their steeds embalmed with perfume

11. Forbidden like the most precious prize
Their burial revives the dead of the grave

12. Their chill heals fevered breasts
They swear by God almighty

13. That they suckled only undiluted wine
Which cures drunkenness after drunkenness