“You nudged me with a whisper,
to rise an hour before azan,
from under the thick
of dove feathers warm with your love
for God, and me, the musty grandchild“
Enjoy this audio recording of “Ramazan in Tajrish” by Rooja Mohassessy from Vol. 33:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Rooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator living in Northern California. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Poet Lore, California Fire and Water: An Anthology of Poems, Southern Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is presently an MFA student at Pacific University in Oregon. roojamohassessy.com.
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What beautiful and tender words💕
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