That was a powerful poem you sent me
from the roofs of Iran,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUZuv6_bus&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
I think of Faiz Ahmed Faiz,
whom I first met
on the pages of a Rushdie novel
I would not have known you existed otherwise
reading poetry to stadiums
full of people.
I think of Burma.
I think of Tiananmen.
Now you tell me
which MFA program in America
Master of Fine Arts
Could have produced,
something like this?
The trauma would have had
to come first.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung 2-21-09
You Tube copyright Iranian Poet.
