take a good look
i said
arranging my body
for you to see

and safe here
as any animal
in the ruins of desire

take a good look
at the woman
you always leave behind


//

after Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī

//

Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)

and also
many of the lovers (eran)
hearts desire (epithumeein)
the body (soma)

before they come to know (gignoskein)
the turn (tropos)

// 232ε

καὶ μὲν δὴ τῶν μὲν ἐρώντων πολλοὶ πρότερον τοῦ σώματος ἐπεθύμησαν

ἢ τὸν τρόπον ἔγνωσαν