.

A Full-Time Position

.

No man wants

to fall in love with a woman

who works in a circus

One of those women who has to walk a tight-rope

.

To fall in love with a woman

who might fall at any moment

.

And if she doesn’t fall

thousands of people clap their hands

to applaud her

.

Sara Mohammadi Ardehali

selected and translated by Dick Davis

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women