This Way

With our bones

            we wrote,

            toiled,

            dug roads.

And this way, 

            

            we paid our share of love.

With our bones

            we write.

And this way,

            we pay the share of the traitor too.

Mina Dastgheib is an Iranian poet. She has published more than 12 collections so far. Her contemporary poems are very concise and enriched with strong social and political metaphors. Many of her poems convey a sad feeling; a reflection of the harsh life in a country with difficult conditions. Some of her work received acclaim from critics and one of her collections was selected as the referee’s choice in the Seventh Festival of Persian Culture in Fars province.  

Mina used to teach Persian and English literature in high schools in Tehran and Shiraz. She is retired now and lives in her hometown of Shiraz. 

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