I Am Trying to Find the Beauty in a Cricket
POETRY
by Sarvin Parviz
Not in his sound, slithering from the kitchen windowsill
but in the strange walk, crooked legs, filiform hair,
how he takes his time sitting near the fridge, being.
He jerks one leg, maybe thinking
about his ten relatives I killed today,
walks back to his favorite corner
and lets the murderer wander
in his presence.
Sarvin Parviz is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and poet from Tehran, Iran. Her work has previously appeared in Roi Fainéant Press and L’Esprit Literary Review. Parviz is a graduate student in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where her focus is on the intersection of diaspora, identity, language, and belonging.
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