{"id":16167,"date":"2026-03-15T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16167"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:40:16","slug":"poem-by-akram-yazdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16167","title":{"rendered":"poem by Akram Yazdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Fragile Sound of Objects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">translated from Persian by the author<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cracked glass<\/p>\n<p>has hidden the trembling of lips from grief many times;<\/p>\n<p>so much so<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>that its touch<\/p>\n<p>holds human sorrow within itself.<\/p>\n<p>It pauses for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>The shadow of a tree<\/p>\n<p>slides over the crack<\/p>\n<p>and the old wound<\/p>\n<p>entrusts its pain to the roots;<\/p>\n<p>where<\/p>\n<p>time<\/p>\n<p>is silently<\/p>\n<p>recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The shadow spreads,<\/p>\n<p>branches<\/p>\n<p>touch something from the past<\/p>\n<p>and the wind<\/p>\n<p>carries a story<\/p>\n<p>without naming it.<\/p>\n<p>The mirror stands opposite;<\/p>\n<p>it neither tells everything,<\/p>\n<p>nor lies.<\/p>\n<p>It only<\/p>\n<p>holds enough<\/p>\n<p>so it won\u2019t break.<\/p>\n<p>And the world,<\/p>\n<p>in silence,<\/p>\n<p>embraces<\/p>\n<p>its cracks<\/p>\n<p>and hidden wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fragile Sound of Objects translated from Persian by the author &nbsp; A cracked glass has hidden the trembling of lips from grief many times; so much so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,77],"tags":[1865,1845,1123,312],"class_list":["post-16167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-88","category-english","tag-akram-yazdani","tag-egophobia-88","tag-english","tag-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-4cL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16168,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions\/16168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}