Doors

Translated by Soheil Najm

I knock on a door

I open it

I don’t see myself, but a door

Shaped like me

I open it

I enter

Nothing but another door

Oh, my God

How many doors between me and myself!

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Poems from "Slightly Quarrelsome Texts"

Published in “Atlanta Review – Iraq” by Poetry Atlanta, Inc.

Volume XIII, Issue number 2, Spring/Summer 2007, USA