# Alireza Roshan from "The Book of Absence"

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Alireza Roshan


FROM THE BOOK OF ABSENCE


translated into English by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach


The foot

that brought me to You

now

in a bread line

plays with a pebble


*


Missing someone

is a mother

who leaves the front door ajar


*


I want to open a door

onto a sea & a night

I want to open a door

onto you

who are the sea & the night


*


As the seasons change

the plums

are replaced by persimmons

longing

by

longing


*


He told Adam

"Your fall is temporary

You"ll come back to me"

but Adam built a house

and called it home


*


I"d wanted to be the wind

in my beloved"s hair

but am only a breeze

amidst gnarly shrubs


*


Between me and you

I am a wall

Take me down