"Have you ever seen water burn in sand

I have seen this lifelong moan

In the small inside of big gardens

In one of the pots

I have seen

As if woken from a dream

Perhaps a geranium raised me."

- Edip Cansever, A passage from the poem Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım (I Mr. Ruhi* How am I)

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*A Turkish name, meaning spiritual (a sort of)