{"id":5587,"date":"2022-06-07T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:48:13","slug":"734-the-only-witness-farideh-hassanzadeh-mostafi-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/734-the-only-witness-farideh-hassanzadeh-mostafi-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"734 | The only witness &#8211; Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafi, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5588 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Afbeelding-734-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Afbeelding-734-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Afbeelding-734-200x262.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Afbeelding-734.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The only witness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For Rashid<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not the heaps of your love letters<br \/>\nin the velvet chest of memories;<br \/>\nNot the armful of flowers and fruits<br \/>\nyou bring home in the evenings;<br \/>\nNot even the gold bracelet of 18 carats<br \/>\nyou gave me on our wedding anniversary;<br \/>\nThe only witness to your pure love,<br \/>\nthis pale plastic bin heavy with rubbish,<br \/>\nwhich you carry down from the fourth floor, step-by-step,<br \/>\nrefusing the help of my sleepy hands, night-by-night!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafi<\/strong> (Iran)<\/p>\n<p>From <strong><em>World Poetry Almanac 2008<\/em><\/strong>, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only witness For Rashid \u00a0 Not the heaps of your love letters in the velvet chest of memories; Not the armful of flowers and fruits you bring home in the evenings; Not even the gold bracelet of 18 carats you gave me on our wedding anniversary; The only witness to your pure love, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}