Lit eZine Vol 7 | p-7 | POETRY | Untitled

MICRO POEM

UNTITLED
by Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani

Person helpless, hands trying to escape through glass pane — *Image by* *DanaTentis*

Owned by the Thunders,
we were dogs, stuck
haplessly in the eternal
eve of the respiteless
last Tuesday before Nowruz,
so to save, nay, resurrect
our canine selves,
we had to defy
our very dogness.

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Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani is a writer, teacher, and editor. His poetry has received an honorable mention in the 2024 Witness Poetry Prize competition (Southern Humanities Review 57.3), won second place in Nine Muses Review’s inaugural poetry contest, and appeared in We Were Seeds Anthology (Querencia Press, 2024) and The Hemlock Anthology (Lighted Lake Press, 2024). Shahryar’s debut book, English Phonetics and Phonology for Farsiphones, was published by Booka (2020). He has edited several books at ATU Press and is the translator of Zahhak’s Inferno (Markosia, 2024). His work has also appeared in Willow Review, Sky Island Journal, and Thimble, among others. Shahryar lives in Tehran, Iran.