Sol 5.6

  1. Safiyya says—though her pure affection

    is another’s—as I brought the camels near:

  2. She had unveiled before us a full moon

    on parting’s dawn, then veiled herself into a crescent.

  3. “Will you be patient if we forsake you, or go far away?”

    “Yes, yes,” I said—while the heart said, “No, no.”

  4. Whoever has grown used to nearness fears distance,

    and whoever has known union dreads being forsaken.

Sol 5.6