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Review of a Novel: The Pot of Jasmine
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Short Story Collection: Thus Speaks Mother Simorq
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My Collection of Short Stories is out on Amazon
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Tanks roll into Rafah leaving ‘360 degree devastation’ in Khan Yunis
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Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies; Police Crack Down on Encampments
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I was actually thinking of you lately since all this 'me too' movement began. I hope you the best. Although I'm not a poetry enthusiast.
Very nice of you, benross. Thank you so much and enjoy your holidays!
Congratulations on your new book ... can't wait to read it this Christmas.
Let's make a deal... I'll buy two, if you call it as it really is: Christmas... Whatcha say?
Thank you very much, Shazde!
Thanks for letting us know but some of us are on budget so wondering if you are going to write a sample here?
By the way if it is impressive to write such a book.
The book is only 8 dollars, my friend.
Anyway, as today on Facebook, there was an article about the biography of Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh, I place a poem I wrote about her execution, which is in the book.
This sinister noose
(For Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh 1971-2008)
From the top of a yellow crane,
Behind the high walls of Evin jail
A knotted hanging rope dangles
Over my life that's set to drain.
My name is Fatima Truth-Seeker*
Speaker of a tale of finding myself
Between a rock and a very hard place
Breeding a death sentence for either case
Whether to let a man rape my daughter
And see her sentenced to death for that
Or to kill the rapist and be killed myself
By a State that is the Grim Reaper’s scythe.
I release my mind for the flick of a second
And make friends with the blue of the sky
As the noose is thrown around my neck
On the orders of men of cloak and wreck
Time-traveller tyrants from Old Arabia
To strangle me following their Sharia Law
For having defended my girl against a goon
For not affording the high price of his blood
For not being pardoned by the kin of the dead stud
Today on this day of fall, the Cosmos calls,
My cries and my girl’s supplication letter to
The Ayatollah were not heard.
So I give voice to my blood
Ready to break loose out of this geography
Grasping the truth of my circumstance.
When the Mullahs’ crane hoists me high up into the air
They’re not sending a woman to the moon
They’re not lifting the moral of a nation
They’re waving banner of men’s right,
On International Day for Elimination
Of Violence against women, to rape
Women, to degrade women, to batter them.
This is the meat of my truth I tear
From the bone of experience year after year.
What is your experience with a noose?
Where were you in November 2008?
Did you attend my upward dying?
Did you fly with me to the edge?
Would you pledge to hold me awhile
When death catches you my dear
Compatriots in a noose of sorrow
In exile?
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* Truth-Seeker is the English translation of the condemned woman's family name,
Haghighat-Pajouh