How I wish the sea would come
visit the streets of Kabul and bring
all its fish, no matter what their color.
Mujib Mehrdad
MUJIB MEHRDAD is a poet and journalist from Afghanistan. He is the author of the poetry collections Gladiators Are Still Dying (2007) The Fishes Have Fled Our Veins (2008), and Audience (2009). His Dolphins Alley has won the Ahmad Shamlou Literary Award for poetry (2021).