“The leafless orchard
Is alone day and night
With his pure and sad silence.”

— Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Poem The Leafless Garden; Quoted in website devoted to the poet, 2013 http://www.mehdiakhavansales.com/the-leafless-garden/

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Iranian poet 1928–1990

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