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Amateur Cartography

   



The course before the heart of our beloved's lover
plots back to the start of our beloved's lover
& devotion to their early idols. Globes
& mirrorballs. The part of our beloved's lover
as a map worth looking at at all's it's ideal
shore. The counterpart of our beloved's lover.
This idyll form was given by the brother just
before his himmelfahrt of our beloved's lover
while we slept in costume primed for Muharram.
Beloved objet d'art of our beloved's lover,
distance makes the font grow harder. Longitude
& latitude thou art of our beloved's lover.




Jahan Khajavi is from Fresno composes & performs “wildly amusing & explicit queer poetry” (Vogue) in Rome. Other recent poems can be found in the anthologies Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart & Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora.