عشق آمریکایی من (بیست. خوابِ “ماجرای نیمروز”)

My American Love

        Thirty-Two Poems for Wendy

Twenty.

Dreaming “High Noon”

by

Majid Naficy

When we lie next to each other

In your canopied bed

Which resembles a covered wagon

I put my left hand

On your right leg,

You put your right hand

On my left hand

And we both sleep

To the murmur of your breaths.

Last night I awoke

To your sudden shout:

“Horse! Horse!” 

I remember that just then

I was dreaming of Gary Cooper

Who opened a stable door

So horses  wouldn’t get burned

In a fire set by criminals 

And that by shielding himself

Between two running horses

He was able to escape

From the reach of killers’ bullets.

In the morning, you said that in your dream

You had seen Grace Kelly

Who, hearing the sound of gunfire ,

Ran from the train station

To help Gary Cooper

And then they moved out of town

In their covered wagon.

        September 4, 2016   

POEMS: 1. On the Bridge, ۲. I Hope the Water Returns, ۳. Empty Baskets ۴. Coffee Maker ۵. Anxious Heart ۶. Washing ۷. Bougainvillea ۸. Simple Truth ۹. Persian-Singing Bird ۱۰. The Gardener ۱۱. Lost Cypresses ۱۲. Visiting the Wall ۱۳. Is Love a Glass of Hormones? ۱۴. Independence Day ۱۵:  Oh, Pain ۱۶. The Season of Picking Raspberries ۱۷. Who Is More Envied? ۱۸. Watching Baseball ۱۹. A Night in Calistoga ۲۰. Dreaming “High Noon”