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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

white skin

Original Title
A Tez Branca
By IBN ABD RABBINI
Ca 860 - 940
White Skin


A thing like this
Have we never
Heard of,
The reward for modesty
A goat horn transformed
Into a pearl


So very shiny her face
When contemplating
Its perfection, that the real
Face vanishes in its
Own clarity

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