Tuesday, August 11, 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


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agha-ye Rostamkhani, was this the photo you were talking about?! Self-effacing you might be, but why not have a less obscure picture of your 'revolutionary' father? P.S.