Andisheh Karami

Where word and colour meet, in the space between languages

English

Poems and prose in English, translated from the Persian.

  • Missing

    Sometimes, you need to speak with someone in your language. Someone who knows you; deeply. But you’re not able. There is no…

  • The beginning of “The heaviness of an emptiness” 

    Everything begins from emptiness. In the beginning, there was no word. There is no word. There will be no word. Life doesn’t…

  • A part of third chapter of The Poem Sol

    We pollute all innocent whitenesswith the shameful sin of words. In me, there is nothingexcept wild primitivenessand wandering and slippery wordsoverflowing from my…

  • The End of Woman

    The woman, bare in the feast of wind, mirror, and desertputs her hand upon herself, upon woman, upon the night;there is no…