My sister says revolution has broken out back home.
Automobile horns honk, as if in congratulations.
I think of Cossacks’ whips. Tatiana shielding me. Pleading with factory owners for kopecks and mercy.
Time to plant new seeds. Smash tundra.
We embrace. Imagine our growth, roots rising into a new sky.
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA fiction program. His stories, “Soon,” “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” “Tales From A Communion Line,” and “Community Time,” have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. His work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Ariel Chart, among others.
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