March 8 in Tehran/Mahnaz Badihian
MARCH 8th IN TEHRAN
2009
on March 8th in Tehran
women will rise
from strength and struggle
They’ll remove their scarves
on rooftops chanting
“God is great”
as a metaphor for justice.
Many women
with jasmine in their hands
will go towards Evin prison
demonstrating against
unjust laws
Women will write poems
about March 8th
about lack of respect
by husband and brothers
about laws of heredity
But there are women also
who’ll walk those streets
with lost memories,
their bodies covered in oblivion
and thick black chador
GATHAS
Recycled woman arrives
with all seasons
with beauty of spring
Arrives with yellow
leaves in autumn
In the season of
freezing rain
She’s present
along dirt roads
along plains
in forgotten houses
between lines of “Gathas”*
across fire temples
mosques ,churches
She knows life
is like morning dew
Sitting on leaves
brief, fragile
She knows everywhere
from troubled roads
of Harlem
to green beauty
of Tamalpais
from blue domes in
city of Isfahan
to plains of Africa
There’s a need to gather
broken bones!
Ghatas are verses from holly book of Zoroastrians
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