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A flowing blue and green ombre scarf with silver leaf-like embroidery and fringe, against a dark, speckled background.

A flowing blue and green ombre scarf with silver leaf-like embroidery and fringe, against a dark, speckled background.

Fashion Access inspired by this poem: Where is the friend’s home? It was at dawn when the rider asked. The sky paused. The passerby, who carried a branch of light upon his lips, gave the darkness of the sands to brightness, and with his finger pointed to a poplar, saying: “Before you reach that tree, there is a garden alley, greener than God’s own dream. And in it, love is as blue as the feathers of honesty. Go to the end of that alley— from behind the verge of youth a boy will appear, his height greener than the dream of God. Then turn toward the flower of solitude. Two steps before the flower, you’ll pause beside the eternal fountain of the earth’s old legends, and a clear fear will take you. In the flowing intimacy of space, you will hear a rustling sound— You’ll see a child, who has climbed a tall pine, to take a fledgling from the nest of light. And you will ask him: ‘Where is the friend’s home?’” See more