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Ali Abdolrezaei

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Rain

In the sky of a town that turned so decrepit
When I put up my umbrella 
I arrive at those village days
To a girl 	bending under the rain
Planting rice
Who abruptly became a woman
A woman in the rain 	still standing tall
Who said time and again 	 to a man
Whose name she did not know
“Why run away? 
 	Why the umbrella?
Only iron men rust in the rain.”

RAIN

Ali Abdolrezaei

(Iran (Islamic Republic of), 1969)

Ali Abdolrezaei was born in 1969 in Northern Iran and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Khaje Nasir University, Tehran.

Abdolrezaei is a poet, writer and literary theorist with 38 books in multiple languages. Before 2001, when he had to leave Iran, he was one of the most innovative poets of the new Persian poetry. He has since been prolific and although he started to write in English w...

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Rain

In the sky of a town that turned so decrepit
When I put up my umbrella 
I arrive at those village days
To a girl 	bending under the rain
Planting rice
Who abruptly became a woman
A woman in the rain 	still standing tall
Who said time and again 	 to a man
Whose name she did not know
“Why run away? 
 	Why the umbrella?
Only iron men rust in the rain.”

Rain

In the sky of a town that turned so decrepit
When I put up my umbrella 
I arrive at those village days
To a girl 	bending under the rain
Planting rice
Who abruptly became a woman
A woman in the rain 	still standing tall
Who said time and again 	 to a man
Whose name she did not know
“Why run away? 
 	Why the umbrella?
Only iron men rust in the rain.”