July 1, 2007  
     




  Tree (poetry)
by Mana Aghaee, Translated by Niloufar Talebi

Go ahead
Run after the wind
Crush my shadow
I’m used to the cycle of seasons
To this earth trembling under me
To clouds that rain elsewhere
And to the loneliness that I know will yellow me.

I’ll stay right here, under this sky
For the children who ran around me
For the far-off laughter
For the rock that got my silence
And for all the names
You memorialized on my body.
   
   

Mana Aghaee was born in 1973 in Iran. She and her family immigrated to Sweden in 1987. She started writing poetry as a teenager and has been published in numerous Iranian publications. She has also published her translations of Swedish literature into Persian. Her first book of poems, If Death Had Your Lips was published in 2003.


An award-winning translator, Niloufar Talebi was born in England to Iranian parents. She is the founder of THE TRANSLATION PROJECT, www.thetranslationproject.org, whose mission is to bring contemporary Iranian literature to the world in multiple languages and media. Her translations have been anthologized and published in numerous journals and she has presented multimedia programs nationally. An Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Poetry Around the World, which she has edited and translated is forthcoming in summer 2008 (North Atlantic Books).
   
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