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Martyr

Martyr

- Jalal Malaksha (1950-2020) Irani Kurdistan

Translations by Omid Varzandeh from the Kurdish

The white dove
was carrying a peace letter—
From: A Wounded Land
To: History

when the hunters came
and threw a net
of arrows.

Suddenly
the earth screamed.
The sky awoke.

The dove's blood
fell over the world,
drop
drop
drop

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