چکامه به شاعر پارسی

Ode To a Persian Poet
to Majid Naficy

In the twilight
you hail
from the wilderness
infusing my silence
with words made of rain
cloud
sun
moon
and stars

your Persian words
for death
sorrow
love and
memory
will resound long after
all other sounds have been stilled

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz *

* A Holocaust-surviving Polish-Canadian author
lillianboraks-nemetz.com