"You Who Weave the Threads of Your Executioner's Lash / from Your Sister's Tresses" Thomas Thompson December 20, 2016 View fullsize The title of this post is from Aḥmad Shāmlū's 1951 collection The Manifesto, from the poem "Until the Red Blossom of a Shirt." The drawing is, again, from Gharbzadegi by Āl-i Aḥmad.