Before the Earth
A mother shelters her son’s body from the cold ground and keeps watch with death until morning.
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Evidence of a Crime
Wounded bodies become testimony that cannot be erased from a city or from history.
Forty Thousand Heartbeats
Those killed are remembered as living hopes rather than statistics, leaving a debt of remembrance and a path towards freedom.
Ah, a Mother’s Sigh
A poem about parental love, grief and the failure of violence to erase memory.
The Light of a Name
A grieving mother finds her daughter’s name alive in the streets and in the memory of others.
When Is Dad Coming Home?
A daughter’s questions and a mother’s grief open into remembrance of a father whose name endures.
You Do Not Know the People of Iran
A direct address to rulers who mistake coercion for the power to determine a people’s future.
Light Through a Magnifying Glass
Scattered rays become powerful when brought together: a poem about remembrance, solidarity and the gathering of light.
Everlasting Memory
The names of those who gave their lives endure through remembrance and through the steps of those who remain.
Workers’ Day: Tear Up the Calendar!
Workers’ Day is placed in mines, industrial fires and the struggle for bread, life and the right to organise.
Mothers Who Stand
A mother’s endurance carries memory and the pursuit of justice towards a future generation.
Wounded Homeland
The speaker’s concern for a wounded country outweighs concern for their own body, joining personal grief to the hope of renewal.
From One, a Multitude
The attempt to erase one life gives rise to a multitude that cannot be contained by numbers.
The Flower Answers “Present”
Flowers and photographs take the places of schoolchildren, while the register’s silence becomes an accusation.
Death’s Consignment Note
A lorry carrying black bags becomes the setting for a poem that insists on names, memory and the right to choose a life without fear.