NURDURAN DUMAN
Doves’ Coo
--for bird-watchers who cannot look at the children flying through the immigration sky--
go on beating emptiness your wings will happen somehow
you’ll be an
Forough Farrokhzad
To say that Iran's most significant female poet, Forough Farrokhzad visited the earth between 1935 to1967 for a turbulent life, seems inadequate. A brilliant
Sonnet Mondal (English)
Grandpa’s Veranda
Grandpa used to sit on a protrusion
of the veranda in our old house.
He used to nod subtly
to acquaintances walking by—
ploughing time—looking from