BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
by Niloufar Talebi
genre:
Poetry
description:
Anthology of new Iranian poetry, edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi, translations with Dan O'Connell and Zack Rogow
chapters
chapter 1:
A poem by Abbas Saffari
A poem by Abbas Saffari
chapter 1
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updated 03/31/08
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Tomorrow
wasn’t more
than cheap talk.
Tomorrow never
showed up
for its dawn meeting.
We returned home
from the morning train station
with cancelled tickets in hand
and on the way
saw many tomorrows
that like unripe apples
drooped from the weighted boughs
of time.
Yes,
we were late
casting our paper boats
onto water.
There are no more
desert islands left
in the waters of the world.
translated by Niloufar Talebi
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wasn’t more
than cheap talk.
Tomorrow never
showed up
for its dawn meeting.
We returned home
from the morning train station
with cancelled tickets in hand
and on the way
saw many tomorrows
that like unripe apples
drooped from the weighted boughs
of time.
Yes,
we were late
casting our paper boats
onto water.
There are no more
desert islands left
in the waters of the world.
translated by Niloufar Talebi
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