Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Aug - Sept
2011 |
The Echo of the Void
Maryam Ala Amjadi
In a room
that is spacious enough for me and my solitude
I sit down to smoke my soul
before a wall
that dances the shadow of my vapor
to me
There is no coffee in my mug
No black craving of dominance
over the white hearted cream
My cup of faith
is empty to its brim
and the desire
for the chair in front of me has gone cold
My mind is this blue ashtray
with wrinkled memory butts
Only an illegitimate thought
could become the savior of this world>
Sounds and voices
are the warp and weft of the empty basket
that my shadow will carry out of this room
Maryam Ala Amjadi - (born 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian poet, essayist and translator who has spent the impressionable years of her childhood in India. She also has an M.A. in English Literature from University of Pune. Ala Amjadi who writes primarily in English was the winner of the Silver Medal in the 14th National Persian Literature Olympiad (2001) and was awarded Honorary Fellowship in Creative Writing by the International Writers Program (IWP) at University of Iowa, U.S.A. (2008).
