Aref Moalemi is an Iranian poet, born in 1996. His published works include Pause of the Storm and Individual Gathering. He has received several awards, including recognition at the Wingless Dreamer International Festival in India, as well as national honors such as the Mim Moayed Festival, the Simorgh Festival, and the Faraspid Festival.

Aref Moalemi

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Tongue

Sign Language
maybe the last living tongue
if they don't cut
the hands of the deaf and mute

they speak a language
that refuses to die like a plant
a language where
touch and speech are the same root
a glass breaks
in the sentence of a hand

blood
hisses
its story
in what tongue?