Anticlockwise Poem by Rosa Jamali

Anticlockwise
A poem by Rosa Jamali
Translated from original Persian to English by the author

It's Midday
Or it's 6: 05
You have turned over, over and over...
Anticlockwise
Round the old orbit
On your Zodiac sign
A cancerous tower
And waterfalls
They all became your nightmare
Cancerous tumours
On your horoscope.

Where is the natural habitat of this migrating bird?

It flew to African moors
And made a nest there

That migrating bird
Was an unknown species
With a bloodline to scarce roots or leaves...