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THE SPECIAL LOVE
2003
BROADSIDE
Handset
and Printed on Kititaka Rice Paper
by Scott King of Red Dragonfly Press
Timothy Young's version of Mohiudin
Ibn El-Arabi's 13th Century
Poem which honors the Divine Feminine:
As a full moon appears from the night
so her face appears amid tresses.
From sorrow comes the sense of her,
eyes shedding tears on a cheek,
like the black narcissus weeping onto a
rose.
Mere beautiful women are silenced,
So overwhelming is her fairness.
Even to think of her harms her subtlety.
Thought is too coarse for knowing her
for her fleeting wonder eludes thinking.
If this is so, how can such a clumsy
organ
as the eye correctly see her?
She's beyond the rainbow of seeing.
Cease these attempts. Such trying is futile.
Yet if someone seeking her lowers his
aspirations
to feel ordinary love, there are always others
Who continue through the night,
across the sea, with eyes longing for her.
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