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Poetry
Literary Corner
My grandmother’s thighs
You have your grandmother’s thighs She says You have your grandmother’s thighs He says Thunder thighs I have my grandmother’s hair I say I remember its salt and pepper Streaks of white and black Salt […]
Poetry
Privilege on my ancestors’ backs
My privilege is on the backs of those who suffered who experienced massacres those who fled before the big one – the first genocide of the twentieth century. My privilege is on the backs of […]
Poetry
An Ode to May 28
Armenia! Armenia outraged! Armenia broken! Armenia martyred! But Armenia liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the Armenian armies, with the support and the help of all Armenia, of the […]
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Birdsong lessons
What do the birds teach us in these times of pandemic? Vocalizing sounds as music greeting dawn in a universal language where tweets, cackles, trills, pecks are a prayer unto themselves monovocal melodies from song […]
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Non-Native Bird in Turkey 1915
This poem was written to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. It was inspired by nursery rhymes being much darker in actuality than how we initially believe them to be when we are […]
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Daughter of Genocide
Yet alive, I shall not let fall my apricot sun never will I shake, shake my ancestry loose nor will I scrape off those days of old off my skin before it catches rust. I […]
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Thanksgiving
I think again of my self, at the dining room table, or squatting beneath, sketching my father, seated next to mother, crocheting, smoking or reading his Armenian newspaper, silently enduring his life, the puzzle of […]
Poetry
Things Left Unsaid
Being alone means fear clouding everything My eyes feel heavy like I am heavily medicated Almost like they, as their own people, are pressured to stay open I am pressured to converse with my eyes, […]