Life Is Like Moon
For Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran
Life is Jina
Jina is Mahsa —
the full circle of light
witness to struggle
Say her name—
The … Read more
Iran
The Revolution
The revolution is a rose—
petals blood-dew
thorns in flesh—
in a garden vast as homeland—
dips her petals in the pool of blood
and holds them up to the … Read more
On Morality’s Many Prepositions and Propositions / We Are Committed to Resist and to Persist
Written to commit Mona Eltahawy’s words and work to memory
We are
More Than what’s
on/of/in
our beds
& the hues
on our heads
More Than what’s
between/amongst/within
our limbs… Read more
To Zhina Amini
That day
a tired voice asks her
to free herself, dance under the city’s
weary sun.
She sings silently for freedom
and lets her beauty shine
across Tehran’s grey streets.… Read more
Why Are You Here?
for Sayeh (Shadow)
Poet
from the forest-covered mountains
you celebrated the land that jailed you
When the radio broadcast your patriotic song
your jail guards and cellmates asked,
“Why are … Read more