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One Day in 3020
galloping them off to playgrounds,
and dashing the most stubborn ones over the rocks
the way their ancestors tamed wild horses,
they will be sprinting
through the fields of sunflowers toward schools
mothers will cook tonic soursop soups
and servant viruses will help them
to clean dishes without water and soap
fathers will construct towers
with help of virus workers
and skyscrapers will rise
in a matter of days without cements
we will love them
and forget the dark days they killed us
they won't hate us
but they won't forgive the mutation
that brought them down to the level of slaves
© Soodabeh Saeidnia
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| Soodabeh Saeidnia |
Soodabeh Saeidnia lives in New York City but is originally from Iran. Her English poems have been published in different American and Canadian anthologies and literary magazines, including Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, Squawk Back, Indiana Voice Journal, Scarlet Leaf Review, Sick Lit Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review, Sisyphus Quarterly, and NY Literary Journal, among others. Her poetry books, Street of the Ginkgo Trees, Voice of Monarch Butterflies, and Apple Fruits of an Old Oak, are now available on Amazon. She is the editor and translator of the bilingual anthologies in English and Farsi, including Where Are You From, Persian Sugar in English Tea Vol I, II, III, and Saffron Flavored Rock Candy Vol I, II. Her micro-poems are found on X @SSaeidnia and Open Art Forum. A number of her poems are routinely posted through her weblog https://soodabehpoems.
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