July 1, 2007 |
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Book of Fears (27) (poetry)
Jamshid Moshkani. Translated by Niloufar Talebi
When the salt of your blood gripped my teeth
I understood my buried pain
And I am the third line*, open…
Something wordless
Like snow after death
And I, who never feared the silent fall of all this death
Shuddered upon seeing you.
*A quote by Shams-e Tabrizi, Rumi’s spiritual guide:
“…Oh scribe,
You wrote three lines:
-One You called, he, and no other!
-Another you called he and the other!
-You called the third neither he, nor the other!
That third line is me!…” Tr. NT |
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Jamshid Moshkani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1958. While in his fourth year of studies in Psychology, he was dismissed for “un-Islamic behavior and contact with anti-Revolutionary groups”. He left Iran in 1984 and after spending time in Latin America, he settled in Sweden in 1986, where he studied Spanish Literature and Library Studies. He is the author of three books of poetry, Returned Letters, Stonescripts of Yearningyears and The Book of Fears. |
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