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Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Karaj 

When I miss her, I open my popout map.
I spill my face into the streets of Tehran. 
I hide in Laleh Park. I read street names 
aloud, like I’m reporting to someone. 
I pretend I see things no one else can─ 
who took the Peacock Throne, how the burnt 
city fell. I say Karaj like I’m telling you your future.




Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of four chapbooks. Recent poetry has appeared in PANK, Rhino, The Bakery, Sixth Finch, ILK, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, and Poemeleon. Recent prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Delirious Hem, The Los Angeles Review, and South Loop Review. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly and an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.




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