Calculating the Weight of a Tormented Leaf
I am naked.
_bare_
my hands
(_)Whose trace are these wounds?
I am naked.
[naked]
prominent blue grooves,
- Green,
- Blue,
- Red!
Red whispers(./:)
on your skin
crawls
_my skin_
Is pale(.)
your skin(,/.)
Stretches
_sketch_
[sleepy]
- are you dead
- are you?
- you dead?
my skin(!/?)
I draw a line.
_grooves_
[groove]
are you (…/?)
Red pours.
Pours (./?)
_Pouring_
Hanging.
Burning.
_flow_
The flow of the artery in the groove of my skin.
[Soil]
I was sleeping.
What color was the soil?
do you know?
are you…
red yes.
Blue(!/?)
are you alive(?/!)
- I am naked
my skin.
Stretches.
Swells.
Slips.
_Slipping_
thick blood behind the furrow,
Bare blood contaminated on the soil,
on the ground
are you…
[Long yawn at 7 p.m.]
Dusk shall shed on me.
Alas my skin!
_Burning_
Alas.
Consign me to the ground!
- ground me
are you dead?
- The soil was red (./?)
this groove
- The soil is cold (./?)
is your trace (?/.)
- It was cold (./?)
your paws
Shall remain (./?)
[your scratch mark]
Bare,
stretched,
Swollen,
cracked,
this body (./,)
Earth's cruel crust.
wrinkled,
Peeled,
_Put your lips on mine_
The soil will hear us.
[Soil]
What is the sound of a drop?
[the sound of the soil]
The sound of cutting your lips
What is the sound of your skin?
my hands
Alas!
Consign me to the ground.
I
are you dead?
Dusk, Ay.
I beheld the Dusk.
- It was purple
"Judas,
My estranged bloodline branch"
Judas!
Don't break my branch!
[my branch]
I laugh.
This is the sound of my laughter:
The laughter is over now.
I moan
This is the sound of my moaning:
[moaning sound]
- What is your moaning sound?
my skin (./,)
Cruel cracks of Earth.
What flower will your wounds yield?
[Judas]
I beheld the dusk.
It was blue, Ay (./,)
your hands.
your veins.
Have you been dead that day?
Have you?
- consign me to the ground
sky me
Consign me to the sea
_ground me_
- What is the sound of your break?
Dusk, Ay
I beheld (./?)
Copyright © Bahar Moshtagh | Year Posted 2025
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