Give me beat'

Berlin, Alexanderplatz on August 19, 2009.

Khalil Rostamkhani

The Sky

Is this the blue sky I used to know?

I can't help wonder why:

It is never the azure

It was even in Evin,

Not to mention Mykonos or Costa Brava.

Is it again the cursed blackish wire-netting above,

That dulls the blue so much

To look somewhat gray?

Is there not a single cloud

To be seen today in the entire sky?

Am I in a position

To talk of the 'entire' sky,

While my vista is no wider

Than the hole above?

-- Saveh Prison
30 June 2002

Khalil Rostamkhani

BERLIN - Protest on Ahmadinejads Inauguration

About 1000 people protest on Tuesday August 4, 2009 in Berlin against Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads Inauguration the previous day.

PHOTOS: (C) KAVEH ROSTAMKHANI