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Rain: photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2005 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
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Rain (23): photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
Rain (27): photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
I sit on a cold stone,
tired, and watch her walk
– ‘just a short way’ –
on, between leafless trees,
down the narrowing lines
of the lane’s grey verges,
into the shadowed fold
of the gathering hills
and the evening, my eye,
her figure, wavering
at the vanishing point.
She is turning there
to nothing; I am sitting
still, and learning
the sound
the world will make
without her.
Rain: photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2005 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
Rain (23): photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
Eyes should be washed, we should see things in another way. ...
Words should be washed.
Word itself should be the wind, word itself should be the rain.
...-- Sohrab Sepehri: from The Footsteps of Water, 1965
...-- Sohrab Sepehri: from The Footsteps of Water, 1965