Garous Abdolmalekian

trans. by Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Pattern

Your dress waving in the wind.
This
is the only flag I love.

You can read more of Garous Abdolmalekian’s work in the print edition of The Arkansas International 8.

Garous Abdolmalekian is the author of five books of poetry. He has won the Karnameh Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Iranian Youth Poetry Book Prize, and is the editor of the poetry section at Cheshmeh Publications in Tehran.

Ahmad Nadalizadeh is currently a PhD student of comparative literature at the University of Oregon. He received his MA in English literature from the University of Tehran.

Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novel Ways to Disappear. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she's translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.