11 article(s) translated from Persian
Lamb
Ghulam Ali traded in grains and spices. He carried produce of the very best quality. Not everyone could afford it. Unlike other merchants in Golpayegan who traded on barter, or offered credit, Ghulam Ali…...
The Mirror
You ring the bell once again. This time the door opens a crack. In the glare of a lightbulb hanging in front of the door, wide eyes stare out from behind a pair of lenses set in brown frames. The large…...
Connection
The black of my irises, those simple, reclusive Sufis of mine swooned in the song-spell of his eyes. I sensed him billow all around me, radiating towards infinity to the other side of life like fire’s…...
From “23”
The airplane has landed. White smoke-loaded smile: what a cargo of sorrow. A silent rain surrounds the airport. A tattered wet wind chases black pigeons. White smoke-loaded smile: what a cargo of sorrow.…...
Sunshine in the Closet
They’ve come! Glasses flee down the hatch Girls into the tiny flowers of their scarves…...
Illuminations
A cloudless sky,
no breath of wind,
I sit beside the courtyard pool.
The slow stirrings of the goldfish,
the radiance and I,
the earth and water---
Life…...
Water
Let's not muddy the water.
Imagine that close by a dove
is drinking from it,
or in a distant grove a finch
is washing its wings in it,
or in some village…...
Address
"Where is the friend's house?" asked the horseman just at dawn. The Heavens paused.
A wayfarer took the bright branch from his lips,
conferred it on the darkness of the sands,
pointed…...
Encounter
I have a feeling that it is a mistake to go to the party at Mr. M.'s, especially under the circumstances. Things have tightened up once more. Again scarves have to be pulled down all the way to the…...
Love’s Turn
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: Nawbat-i asheqi (Love's Turn), a 1990 film by Makhmalbaf, provoked an intense public debate about movie morality, specifically women's control of their own sexuality. Screened…...
Our Story
"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven? this mournful gloom For the celestial light? Be it so, since He Who now is sovran…...
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