Tortoises Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Tortoises

There is a request:
- "Please sign this for change."

In midst of article
-a tortoise underneath
-Coca Cola's plastic…

Screen in front
-turns mirror in my mind
-I picture what have seen
-and feel me, smiling!

Stretched are my legs
-I float and swim…

Feel odor, stinking
-fades smell of the sea…

My body is canoe
-hands go on with rowing.

See cliffs, foamy waves
-sandy beach is further.

I decide to return…

Crazy, as I am
-head for heart of the foams
-greenish, yellowish, brownish
-come to mind the three
-Kamal and Angelo, Da Vinci
-in frames their paintings…

Scene changes with stench
-strong as sharks' teeth.

See parts of a net in floating
-it has been cut away
-entrapped tortoises
- (Wasted, killed!)
-by mankind, (this devil!)