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Thursdays 1/8/2015 at Readers Poetry Series: Mahnaz Badihian & Lincoln Bergman
Jan 072015
Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series: Mahnaz Badihian & Lincoln Bergman
Mahnaz Badihian is an Iranian/American poet, Painter and a translator. She is a member of
revolutionary Poets Brigade (RPB) in San Francisco. Her work has been published into several languages worldwide, including, Turkish, and Malayalam and Spanish and Italian. Her publications include three volumes of poetry, and a translation of Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions into Persian. She has MFA in poetry . Her work on a collection called “Saplings Arise”, edited by Jack Hirschman San Francisco Poet published in 2013. She is Editor-in-Chief of MahMag.org .Her collection of poems called Recycled Woman will be published in 2015.
www.Badihian.org or www.mahmag.org
Shadows
By Mahnaz Badihian
Recycled Woman
Steps into the dark street
Into the empty alleys,
Calm and quiet
She walks over the shadows
Of fallen trees
Shadows of lonely people
Who’ve left the war zone
Broken windows
And shattered doors
She walks over lost pairs of shoes
Recycled Woman is walking
On the skin of a cold night, naked
Thinking the night is too long
And its shadows feel too cold.
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