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    Two Poems by Forough Farrokhzad

    Jun 09, 2020 3 minutes
    —Translated from the Persian by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.

    AFTER YOU

    O my seventh year, the year I turned seven
    O wondrous moment of departure
    After you everything that happened happened in a mass of craziness and
    insanity

    After you the window that had been such a vivid and bright connection
    between the bird and us
    between the wind and us
    broke
    broke
    broke

    After you that clay doll that said nothingnothing but water, water, waterdrowned in

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