Poem: Bijan Elahi

Trans: Mehdi Ganjavi

——-

Snow

–

She could only

Be embraced

Once.

She knew, then,

She would fall like an avalanche.

Yet she wanted

To find shelter in my embrace!

–

Her name was snow

Her body, snowy

Her heart of snow

And her pulse

Sound of dripping snow

On the thatched roofs…

–

And I loved her

Just like a branch

Broken under the avalanche.

—-

Circa 1962

First published in the second volume of the Turfeh literary magazine (Jung adabi turfeh) in 1964.