What Endures
I forgot his name.
The color of his hair
and likewise
the tone of his voice,
with all the moments that had collapsed
– rubble upon rubble – into my house.
And my house
remained
with the mountain hyacinths
that thousands of years ago
you gave
to me...
Machine translation from the Persian
Original Persian
ماندگاری
The Year of the Iris
اسمش یادم رفت .
رنگِ موهایش
و همین طور
لحن صدایش ،
با همۀ لحظه هایی که فرو ریخته بود
- آوار آوار – در خانۀ من .
و خانۀ من
باقی ماند
با سنبلۀ های کوهی
که هزاران سال پیش
هدیه دادی
تو به من ...