Poetry

Gender of Self

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When River turns decisive,
The Riverbed wonders,
Clinging to the resolve lurking in the rush,
Remains motionless.

Riverbed, motionless, irrelevant to destinations the river,
full of murmuring incomprehension, and no resolve,
rushes to.

Riverbed, wondering quietly, rousing waiting listening to the resolve in the river’s intended purpose, sore, crushed;
not by the weight of the current, but
by this vigorous constant friction leaving Them on the verge of erection-burdened distress;

My body is sick of identifying with the river while all-the-while identifying, most sincerely, with the riverbed, Ma’sha’Allhah

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Saghi Ghahraman
Toronto 2015