Forough Farokhzad (1314-1346) sitting at Haft seen spread at age of 17 or 18.  She was an avant garde Iranian poet and film director.
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No one is thinking about the flowers, no one is thinking about the fish,
no one wants to believe that the garden is dying,
that the garden's heart has swollen under the sun,
that the garden's mind is slowly being drained of green memories,
that the garden's senses are a separate thing rotting huddled in a corner...

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