It was a miracle:
Fire and ice,
Together.
The ice had set fire to the history teacher’s liver.
Bahtiyar Hidayet
Bahtiyar Hidayet, born in 1974 in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, graduated from university in 1995 and has been working as a history teacher since 1998. Wrote poetry since high school and has 4 poetry books published in Azerbaijan.
Fire and İce
From the freezer
Of a broken refrigerator
A sheep’s liver
From long ago
Was found.
Like a historian
Who has unearthed ancient fossils
Deep within the glaciers,
The history teacher rejoiced.
With scholarly curiosity,
He searched once more
Through the refrigerator’s “archive.”
But when he found out
He had to buy a new fridge—
On credit—
The history teacher grew sorrowful,
Like a historian
Whose archive had burned!
It was a miracle:
Fire and ice,
Together.
The ice had set fire to the history teacher’s liver.
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