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Mehrdad Fallah

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This Darkness

Getting out of this exhibition
is not as easy as you think
Even if you dare
and recklessly
bang your head against the glass
you can’t bet where you might land
on the other side

To buttress this darkness with another darkness?
OK
There is such joy in tearing away
I don’t deny it

© Translation: 2011, Abol Froushan

This Darkness

This Darkness

© 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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Allusion

This snow

Of this quiet

I have heard

Of this bridge

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The Hitch

With these electric torches

Close

This Darkness

Getting out of this exhibition
is not as easy as you think
Even if you dare
and recklessly
bang your head against the glass
you can’t bet where you might land
on the other side

To buttress this darkness with another darkness?
OK
There is such joy in tearing away
I don’t deny it

© 2011, Abol Froushan

This Darkness

Getting out of this exhibition
is not as easy as you think
Even if you dare
and recklessly
bang your head against the glass
you can’t bet where you might land
on the other side

To buttress this darkness with another darkness?
OK
There is such joy in tearing away
I don’t deny it

© 2011, Abol Froushan

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