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Karbala
A ceremony of fearful falcons
Scattered like a school of frightened fish
Their crooked wings scissored the soaring Syrian sun into slivers,
Blissfully beating down the silver streaks that crowned the heads of cherished Bedouin elders
They wept as they carried canopies of remembrance
Every parched pore draped, like languishing lotuses, in anguish
To honor their hallowed hero, Hussein
On the ruinous road to Karbala
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Shiraz Bautista
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