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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