{"id":244,"date":"2017-11-05T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-11-05T01:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T23:22:29","slug":"night-and-million-moving-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2017\/11\/05\/night-and-million-moving-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Night&#8221; and &#8220;Million Moving Pieces&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Live Encounters <a href=\"https:\/\/liveencounters.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Live-Encounters-Poetry-Writing-8th-anninversary-December-2017.pdf\">(Download PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Night<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Time froze<br \/>\nat the call of the first name.<br \/>\nThe names always began<br \/>\nbeing called at noon<br \/>\nwhen the air was dank<br \/>\nwith hundreds of women<br \/>\nconfined<br \/>\nbreathing each other\u2019s breath<br \/>\nlonging for the darkness<br \/>\nfor no one was ever called<br \/>\nfor execution at night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Million Moving Pieces<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Whenever I board a train<br \/>\nI remember Yavar<br \/>\nhe worked in a factory in Arak<br \/>\nmaking parts for trains.<br \/>\nHe used to point with pride and say:<br \/>\n\u2018You see that train!<br \/>\nI made it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He heard the sound of trains<br \/>\nin his sleep<br \/>\nyet when he went anywhere<br \/>\nhe went by coach<br \/>\nas he never earned enough money<br \/>\nto take a train to go somewhere,<br \/>\nanywhere.<\/p>\n<p>He left some of himself<br \/>\nin all these million moving pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Live Encounters (Download PDF) &nbsp; Night Time froze at the call of the first name. The names always began being called at noon when the air was dank with hundreds of women confined breathing each other\u2019s breath longing for the darkness for no one was ever called for execution at night. &nbsp; Million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2017\/11\/05\/night-and-million-moving-pieces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Night&#8221; and &#8220;Million Moving Pieces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}