Monday, January 1, 2018

NASIM BASIRI


NASIM BASIRI

A NEW WATCH LIST

Startled out of my thoughts
By an applaud of thunder
Pitched in the battle
With the wind

Women walking fast
Energized by the air
Carrying their babies and baggage

Some running ghostlike through the rooms
Of an abandoned hospital
With bared feet

Some giving birth to babies with Arabic-sounding names
And welcoming them to a new watch list

Helicopters are flying in the sky of Allepo





A BULLET TO IMAGINATION

I’m melting away
These hands are my remaining
Take them
And carry them with care
Paint them with your imagination

Take my tongue
Call it a bullet

A Bullet to the horizon
A bullet to fly in the sun
A bullet to the borderlines
A bullet to forget the lands
A bullet to the final memories
A bullet to past and future moments
A bullet to the woman with a man in front of her
A bullet to the man with a woman in front of him
A bullet to white storks flying to the south
A bullet to imagination

I’m melting away




THE SHAPE OF RUMI

I kicked away the fire
Drove it before me
With the blows of my feet

A light began to open
In the sky
And something grew a human shape
The shape of Rumi
Attempting to affirm he doesn’t exist
Saying:

“Not Christian or Jew or
Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.
Not any religion
Or cultural system”

Poem began to disappear
In poets’ footsteps
Walking across the golden fields
Of suppressed words
Capering in a yellowish horizon
And vanishing
Into the placeless

NASIM BASIRI

NASIM BASIRI is an Iranian feminist poet, writer, women’s rights activist and the head of Commission on Global Feminisms and Queer in IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences). Nasim is a PhD student and works as an e-campus instructor and graduate teaching assistant of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She has lived and studied in different parts of the world such as Middle East, South Asia, Eastern Europe and North America and has appeared on international platforms for human rights.



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