Title: The vivid apple should be slayed, the fresher the merrier

Author: Sam Vaseghi

“the vivid apple should be slayed, the fresher the merrier” (sibe zende ra bayad har che zendetar kosht) is a collection fourteen long poems by the deconstructivist Iranian poet Sam Vaseghi, written in the years 2006-2015 in exile. Some of the poems were published earlier in earlier in journals both in Farsi and English, or included in audiovisual virtual performances and film.

. . . found

. . . found — your sight your path
gone astray, pulsating in my veins . . .
redolent of blood
and the accretion of capillaries in the coincidence of our breaths . . .
that eyebeam, dared, facing death, but suffused with light —
your unripe orbs — averse to any tree . . .
to bearing fruit or a garden of self-embodiment.
Up to the
moment, amidst your wailing laughter
in bloodlust: The scorpion with a Holy Word
kissed me, arisen from the chasm of your chest. Recite!
What an eerie vibe
this kiss — was it temptation
or not, why
so lustful entwisted, this bloodstained algesia:
the vivid apple should be slayed, the fresher the merrier,
to murder fresh anew, . . . fresher
sweeter, . . . more painful . . .
Recite!

See film on this poem on: Anti-Poetry