1. Indeed, they marveled at pearls scattered wide—

    pearls of the loftiest words, single and twinned.

  2. Nor is it strange: the pearls with which my shaykh had filled

    my hearing spilled, scattering, out of my mouth.

  3. Between the human mouth and hearing lies a kinship.

    Have you not seen that hearing is the gateway to speech?

Sol 5.6