پدر پدران – بیست‌و‌یک شعر برای پدرم / مجید نفیسی (۱۸)

The Father of Fathers

        Twenty-One Poems for My Father

Eighteen.

Stomach Ulcer

by Majid Naficy

The night that Father packed his suitcase

To travel to America

I ran to the alley shops

And bought a package of barberry candies

So when his stomach ached

He could put a candy in his mouth.

Every time that he wrote us a letter from America

He always updated the number

Of consumed candies on the top:

“Today I ate the tenth candy of Majid.”

When returning to Iran

Father brought me a pair of red earmuffs.

We went to mountains on Fridays

And if the snow had covered the ground

I would put on my earmuffs

And he, who always had a handful of pistachios in his pocket

For relieving his stomach pain,

Sometimes gave me one too.

June 2, 2014

Poems

۱: Sword at the Ablution Pool, ۲:  In Temescal Canyon, ۳: Red earmuffs, ۴: Three Gifts, ۵:  Forgetfulness, ۶: That Hitler Moustache, ۷: Baghbaderan Wine, ۸: The Night, ۹: Visiting the Moon, ۱۰: Secret, ۱۱:  A Red Rose for My Father, ۱۲: The Soul Bird of Father, ۱۳: In the Name of Father, ۱۴: Magic Lantern, ۱۵: The Family Koran, ۱۶: Khomeini’s Visit, ۱۷: Death in the Sea, ۱۸: Stomach Ulcer