Poetry
Migration
Dec 13, 2016 |
By H. E. Sayeh |
Translated
from Persian
by
Fayre Makeig
A sketch the rain strikes
in dirt,
A sketch the rain strikes
in dirt, one uncertain runnel
depicting the dark story of a cloud—
a vagrant cloud, driven over mountain and plain
until one day, in whatever stream it finds itself,
it is returned to the sea.
Author
H. E. Sayeh
H. E. Sayeh is an eminent Iranian poet of the twentieth century, whose life and work spans many of Iran’s political, cultural and literary upheavals.
Translator
Fayre Makeig
Fayre Makeig lives in New York, where she is a student in Columbia University’s MFA program. Her poems have appeared in the Western Humanities Review. In 2009, she won a PEN translation fund grant for the selected free verse of H. E. Sayeh.
