{"id":3181,"date":"2024-04-28T00:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2024-04-28T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T00:42:05","slug":"two-poems-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/2024\/04\/28\/two-poems-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">by Pari Sabti<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Ahvaz<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">upon that date palm: khorma, rotab, khaarak<br>underneath: the abandoned subway that claws at the surface <br><br>herb-seller in a chador on the street-corner, a kilometer<br>away\u2014the murderer parading the dismembered head of his child-bride <br><br>the river remembering intrusions, half-drowned children<br>fished out by strangers and bombs missing the bridge to glide in<br><br>community land and its towering bamboo reeds <br>our graveyard hiding behind the overgrowth, now<br><br>turned into the smoothed surfaces of a new, empty park <br>my cheated childhood, bulldozed, forever gone <br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">the three stages of date ripeness: khaarak is yellow and firm, rotab is softening, and khorma is the fully ripened date.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>nemifahmi<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">                               they sticker\t   me an ID and\t      lick                                                       <br>                off my star\t\t stains. out<br>                           with my old skin,       my plastic          green<br>                alien skin, \tout with            my cancerous<br>                              constellations. \t\tyou\u2019ll naturalize me<br>                     soooo gooood\t\t             I\u2019ll forget<br>                I was a citizen \t\t\tof the unnatural. \tpinken<br>                     like a cow\u2019s \tear. domesticated. \t  <em>dear<br>                              alien resident: \t\tdo you renounce<br>                the cosmos\t\t for the earth?<\/em> \t\tmy room<br>                           has no windows\t anyway. but see\tme<br>                     here, grazing\t  my carpet\t\tgrass<br>                on my knees       \t\t praying to star-                   dust, see<br>                     my alien skin\t\t      and my fat alien<br>                           tongue\t\t that you\t\tnemi-<br><em>                <\/em>fahmi\t\t\t nemifahmi to \t\t\thichi<br>                                      nemifahmi.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background has-magenta-color has-magenta-background-color is-style-wide is-style-tw-dashed\" style=\"background-color:#ff1493;color:#ff1493\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pari Sabti <\/strong>is a nascent MFA candidate at George Mason University. They enjoy going on walks, singing, and arguing about semantics with their sister. You can find their poem \u201cZardi-ye Man Az To\u201d in Calliope Literary Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Pari Sabti Ahvaz upon that date palm: khorma, rotab, khaarakunderneath: the abandoned subway that claws at the surface herb-seller in a chador on the street-corner, a kilometeraway\u2014the murderer parading the dismembered head of his child-bride the river remembering intrusions, half-drowned childrenfished out by strangers and bombs missing the bridge to glide incommunity land and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/2024\/04\/28\/two-poems-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Poems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-fourteen","category-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/mixtape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}