persian

a gulf
negative space
a style
a culture, a period, an association - a mindset
an export
the image, though I have never seen one really
an animal
labeled and assumed
a language - alive, as they say
spoken and written even now
but a people? a nation? a chunk of earth?
only ideas, intangible remnants, negative space
defined by the adjective
and forever set adrift from the noun