This is dedicated to the 88th birthday of Forough Farrokhzad
She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, feminist author. She died at the age of 32 due to a car accident. Her legacy lives on to this day.
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“I will plant my hands in the garden
I will grow I know I know I know
and swallows will lay eggs
in the hollow of my ink-stained hands.”
دستهایم را در باغچه میکارم
سبز خواهم شد، میدانم، میدانم، میدانم
و پرستوها در گودی انگشتان جوهریم
تخم خواهند گذاشت
#فروغ_فرخزاد