"PS752" by Sarvin Parviz

For Roja Azadian

Everyone in the group chat voted. A committee of girls, three of us, were chosen to pick out the jewellery, a goodbye gift she would take with her to the new country, a new home. No dark colors, nothing reminding her of the days in jail, everyone agreed. The committee suggested we go either with a semicircle necklace in gold and pink, a triangle shape of her birthstone, or an azure necklace, almost shapeless. The three choices upon which most of us agreed.

The triangular one was immediately crossed off the list. It didn’t celebrate her diamond face. The semicircle was eliminated right after. Too bright for her skin. We bought her the azure necklace which she wore immediately in the airport under her scarf. “My lucky charm,” she called it.

Sarvin Parviz (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and poet from Tehran. Her work has appeared in Roi Fainéant Literary Press and L’Esprit Magazine. She enjoys bending genres and trying different media. Her focus is on the intersection of diaspora, identity, language and belonging. She was serendipitously introduced to micro-fiction which led her to leave her training and pursuit of opera behind to explore media arts and writing. She is a graduate student in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)