After I read Barbara Crane's "Love Refrains: a ghazal," a finalist in the Rattle Poetry Prize, I experimented with her dialogue-driven version of this ancient Arabic form of poetry popular Iran, Pakistan, and India.

Usually about unrequited love, ghazals (pronounced "guzzles") are composed of couplets. In the first, the poet introduces the theme and a rhyme-refrain at the end of both lines. The rhyme-refrain repeats on the second line of following couplets. The last couplet includes the poet's name.

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