Americanized Mimi

My grandmother

In Farsi carries

Another name that is frostbitten

She put it behind in the freezer;

And like a molting butterfly it undresses

But like a molting butterfly trapped in a freezer,

The chill sedates it before

Ever being airborne

Her name a pitiful corpse

For her name, sleeping and dying are the same thing

-Liv Amiri

9/12/23