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Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet, and film producer. 

'Flight from Manus' by Behrouz Boochani

March 2019, no. 409 25 February 2019
AwakeI am beholding cloudsbeholding dreamsand… beholding the hands of a woman… she has taken a fragment of me with herExactly like the force of a forkcarving out a piece of cake I muse on those handsthat seem to have bathed within junglessubmerged into oceanstouched herrings Hands covered with the dirt and sand of deserted plainsHands soaked with dreamsYour handsYour arms If I were you, beh ... (read more)