Voice from Iran
Calculatingly (with a fat eye on publicity, you used the terms “good-heartedly” and “heroically”) you carefully—to avoid my family, you said— bombed my evil neighbour. He wasn’t home. Anyway, what you actually hit and destroyed was next door. You killed my sister and brother. So now I will hate you forever. And so now, here’s what would be fair. If anything any longer can ever be fair. Lock yourself in a chamber until you discover how to restore my loves alive to me. Reverse your war. And if you never can bring them back, then die and rot in there so we hear from you no more.
BIO:
A. F. Moritz’s new book of poems is The Wren (2026), his 23rd. Almost simultaneously he is publishing his English version of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s great 1918 book Eternities, which Homero Aridjis calls “one of the very best translations of any of the great Spanish-language poets”.
