"When poets selected a particular poetic pseudonym (takhallus) for themselves, they would get a signet made of this pseudonym; if they changed the takhallus they had to get the signet changed." --Natalia Prigarina, Mirza Ghalib: a Creative Biography (2000)


    "Travels"

1.
two moons
Squalor
and Despair

2.
yakuza xylafirn
bulbous pulpit Pritikin
noon Karagöz
only at high Djedi Haziz


"...in the East poetry was not considered the lot of youth." --ibid


Stormhostel Veersiren.


"In our house of lamentation
We light the candle from the lightning." --Ghalib, ibid