Poem

Mehrdad Fallah

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This snow

This snow is crying out for a crow
the blacker the better you write
pick up a fistful of stones too
or enough to blind
all the people

Look at the crowing!
Look what havoc they are wreaking

But even if a thousand crows arrived
this snow would not be melting
Hey kids! This snow
will close all the schools

© Translation: 2011, Abol Froushan

This Snow

This Snow

© 2011, Mehrdad Fallah

Mehrdad Fallah

Mehrdad Fallah

(Iran (Islamic Republic of), 1960)

Mehrdad Fallah comes from Northern Iran. He was born in 1960 in Fashoo Poshteh – “a small village . . . five fingers away from the Caspian”, as he writes in his autobiographical poem ‘Let’s get some fresh air’ – somewhere between Langerood and Lahijan in the province of Gilan. He discovered his love of reading and writing poetry in his teens at high school.

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UNDER THIS SPOTLIGHT

Allusion

This snow

Of this quiet

I have heard

Of this bridge

This Darkness

The Hitch

With these electric torches

Close

This snow

This snow is crying out for a crow
the blacker the better you write
pick up a fistful of stones too
or enough to blind
all the people

Look at the crowing!
Look what havoc they are wreaking

But even if a thousand crows arrived
this snow would not be melting
Hey kids! This snow
will close all the schools

© 2011, Abol Froushan

This snow

This snow is crying out for a crow
the blacker the better you write
pick up a fistful of stones too
or enough to blind
all the people

Look at the crowing!
Look what havoc they are wreaking

But even if a thousand crows arrived
this snow would not be melting
Hey kids! This snow
will close all the schools

© 2011, Abol Froushan

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