به دریا می‌رویم – شعری از مجید نفیسی

Majid with a Giant Turtle in Maui

We Go to the Sea

By Majid Naficy

Every night from our balcony

we listen to waves conversing

And twice every day

We go to the sea

To a clean, shady place

By the bolders in Lahaina.

At dawn, the water reaches our chests

And in the evening to our knees.

I immerse myself in the water

Fearless of the eels

Nesting under the bolders.

My love, Wendy, wades

In the water next to me

And sometimes hurrahs

Upon seeing a whale from afar.

This is the season of whales breaching.

We no longer only listen

To the conversation of the waves

We become part of it

Moving with the water back and forth

Unmindful of past and future

Until giant turtles

Call us from the shore.

January 27, 2021