A Poem by Saadi Golbayani, in Persian and in English Translation by Ali Asadollahi
A Wounded Wolf-Beside youthere was a wounded wolf in my silhouette—sniffing the scent of his she-wolf.A wounded wolf—who had abandoned his mate—was tangled in the wind’s dragging howl.And on the porch, battered by autumn,something was endlessly building and breakingan invisible blueprint of a flowerpot.The wounded wolfrubs her scent onto the pines of the steppe.And his share of the pine forest?To…