Perplexity

Translated by Soheil Najm

My father said:

Share your vision with no one:

The road is mined with ears

And every ear

Is bound to another by a secret wire

Until they reach the Sultan.

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Poems from "Slightly Quarrelsome Texts"

Published in “Atlanta Review – Iraq” by Poetry Atlanta, Inc.

Volume XIII, Issue number 2, Spring/Summer 2007, USA