Poems

ANOTHER BIRTH / Forough Farrokhzad / translated by: Karim Emami: My whole being is a dark chant / which will carry you / perpetuating you / to the dawn...

Shahrzad!* Barren Thou infertile Non,the miracle pill,non the bitter cure The womb; As if -bored pear,wrinkled,ambiguous,aimless- Non,nine months After unbearable one thousand and one nights Restless, Uninformed, This repeated bored umbilical cord, chooked the throat of The City. Miscarriage the story And The City That buried the exhausted secret of …

The Waste Land 1922 T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) NAM Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerunt: Sebulla pe theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and …