1. You spend the whole night hunched over, ginning cotton,

    while Bakhtiyār cries, “Come save the drowning man!”

  2. And ʿAmr rose; hands made straight for him

    when he bent over—or sipped their broth.

  3. When something like a spear dropped from him, and something widened

    like a shield—then Shann found his match in Tabaqa.

Sol 6.1