Poem of the week: Dibs Camp, the Women’s Prison by Choman Hardi

The psychic wounds of an atrocity during the Iran-Iraq war are brought home by the stoic but still anguished voice of a survivor

Dibs Camp, the Women’s Prison
Nabat Fayaq Rahman

You do not die! Not when you want to.
Not when you see your strong husband, the big
brother in his own family, kicked bloody by a group
of men equipped with loaded guns and hatred.

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