Black Is The House Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Black is the house

Movie kissed the screen
-made by her
-the leper colony, unwritten script
-near Tabriz

But did she?
Did she?
Did she?
Did she make it?

Logic calculates and says:
-"No! But yes…!
-encouraged,
-she was pushed,
-she got the respect
-freedom and the chance
-by her lover
-by her admirer
-who understood her
-with wilderness
-with craziness
-he smelt her sweat
-when they made love

"House is black" is lighted by
-the light invisible to blind
-our eye sockets, round
-yet are blind in mind
-he gave her "eyes"
-legs and arms!
-helped her break the ice
-to face the underneath
-swam there the fish
-hunted the whale

"House is black" is some racetrack
-to free women from invisible
-patriarchal culture, curtain
-and by patriarch, a rebel
-in actions, not the talk
-as mullah and shah!