I’m no longer the same My Psyche …physique is changed Lost its power… its handsomeness I’m no longer the same After we lost so many sons … After we lost our ancient lands … I’m […]
Dark eyes, you will see somewhere in every distant land – so distinct and always the same. Dark eyes with the glow of laughter and joy – evil can veil, but […]
Holding a long wooden dowel in her hand A learned tradition from her former land She batted and fluffed until it was full the cushiony and treasured pure lambswool With heavy needle and weighty thread […]
It was before a sold-out audience back in November 2019 when Lillian Avedian proclaimed her lifelong commitment to living out her Armenian feminist ideals. “I have found my voice,” she asserted during her reading of […]
The berry of the fruit crushes upon my tongue, bitter, sweet, savored. And the hills cascade into waves of green, rising with the patter of my footsteps, lowered by the weight of fruits of labor […]
Remember when we believed a Stepanakert street block was too far? Mesrop Mashtots, Vazgen Sargsyan street, and so on… well, new boundaries stack those blocks, and now there are thousands, maybe millions, blocking. My preschool […]
God mixed the clay and the sun To create the marble body of woman. Mixed the dream and the light To make her breast firm and steady. Took the blue sky for her eyes, For […]
A twenty-something sits on an exam table in Midtown. Her blood pressure is perfect, as it should be; youth is wasted on the young who pay rent for foxholes, lose their virginity to the bomb, […]
You arrived in my life again, planted in the furrow, A mighty seedling of sight, of memory, of shadow, Easter opening soft as the sun, recollected, Սրտիս նոր ծաղիկները budding with love of fire, Fortitude […]
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