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i, motherland,<\/h6>\n

i, motherland,
\ni falter.
\nmotherland, forgive me.
\nthere are flowers that grow here
\nunfettered by another blackened sun
\n& i delight in their softness.
\ni pluck off their petals to gulp down
\nwith my morning reads.
\nwhen i pluck & pluck i watch
\nhow they still grow, soft & no bow & arrow
\naimed at the world around.
\nhow? will they teach me?
\ni have sifted through your palms
\nfor long now, my arms are tired
\nfrom all the digging. there is no longer
\nfruit in your rummaging.
\ni have rowed myself away into the music
\nof elsewaters again\u2013 held your tales
\nas sailcloth to this parting.
\nyet in the sentences of this off-center,
\ni cannot but search for your name. i name you
\n& name you in the sentences of my bidding.
\nas i walk into rooms that do not know you,
\ni wrap your beauty & reckoning
\naround my neck like a wild agate from your
\nMount Aragats. you are now again only a feeling.
\na distant naming. a breath of word i keep casting
\n& casting so much so that i now look at the air
\naround me & find you in all that is moment
\n& meaning, all that is passing, & passing<\/p>\n

Publication Note: Highly commended and published in the Binsted Poetry Prize (part of the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition) in 2022<\/em><\/p>\n

the sacrificial dove<\/h6>\n

When the dead are not your own,<\/em>
\nthey appear to be sleeping<\/em>
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\nArmenian proverb<\/em><\/p>\n

\u0531\u0572\u0561\u0582\u0576\u056b \u2013 her name a mouthfeel of feather.
\nyou watch as she marches
\nthe altar of her forsaken,
\nher hands covering all the neglect
\nof her spent graces.
\nher bones have unbodied her now \u2013
\nleft her a thick-skinned loss
\nto spine. to weather.
\nwaistlines can be insignias too,
\nof where the thrashing waves
\ncome only to leave again.
\nwhat is beneath the shore
\nwhen searched.
\nis there another
\nmore lasting womb
\ncarrying the heart
\nof a home
\ninstead of only
\nits borders<\/p>\n

Publication Note: Published in AMBIT<\/em><\/p>\n

when the wolves come thrashing<\/h6>\n

in my first language
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\nis the word for state
\nin my first language
\n\u0570\u0561\u0576\u0563\u0578\u0575\u0581 \/ hankuyts
\nis the word for knot<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

animosity \u2014 the word taints my palate
\nalready, nesting this once-again rage.
\ni wake to tales of animosity, breaking
\nmy fast of evening, my insides
\nchurn into a blood batter
\nof the cortisol passed down
\nto my young body.
\nit\u2019s an over a century-old fight,
\nyet ripening.
\nthe enemy is kilometres away, the headlines warn,
\nwhoever has Shushi, has Artsakh.
\nlong and heavy, the words walk strident
\nupon our ears. i hear my father\u2019s wired heart
\npulsate with such wistful rhythm all the way from my room.
\ni can hear the layers being peeled off his skin.
\ni can feel him bruising.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

at night,
\ni don\u2019t sleep from the sounds
\nof the televisions of the neighbourhood Armenians
\nstreaming the breaking
\nnews the rising numbers the president\u2019s
\nhigh morale doesn\u2019t affect me
\ni just want to sit down
\nwith the night and wet its hair
\nthen brush it
\nbraid it
\nshelter in it<\/p>\n

Publication Note: Published in Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s<\/em><\/p>\n

Ararat Mountain Removed from Armenian Passport Stamp<\/h6>\n

Two holy peaks beyond the border wire.
\nNational symbol beside lion and eagle, on our coins,
\nour church walls, in our selfies at Khor Virap,
\nin black linework on a cousin\u2019s wrist.
\nTreaties carved you into someone else\u2019s map in 1921.
\nStill, you shimmer behind billboards on Mashtots Avenue,
\nbehind cranes building new apartments, behind the laundry
\nflapping on every Yerevan balcony. You\u2019re the first thing
\nI learned to draw in kindergarten with blue and white crayons.
\nThe new passport stamp will display only: \u0540\u0561\u0575\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576
\nand ARMENIA, the checkpoint name, a date, icons for air,
\nrail, road. \u201cState symbols should not send dangerous messages.\u201d
\nsays the ruling party\u2019s secretary. mountain and dangerous
\nside by side in official statements. Look at mount Aragats
\ninstead, says the Prime Minister. Aragats is inside our borders.
\nAragats is safe. Aragats won\u2019t upset the neighbors (for now).
\nBut when I book a window seat on my flight to Yerevan,
\nthe plane will dip, the clouds open, and I, phone half-raised,
\nbreath held, will smile at your white peaks spilling
\nthrough the haze. Exactly where you\u2019ve always been.<\/p>\n

eating fruit with you before you leave<\/h6>\n

persimmons never really meant much for me
\nuntil that sweet November morning\u2014
\nin the body of daylight i watched you
\ngently thumb one clean under cold
\nrunning water that was not supposed to be
\ncold\u2014 our favorite Trois Gymnop\u00e9dies
\non a muffled loop in the near bedroom,
\ndwindling droplets of Beirut sun stroking
\nthe kitchen door, the stray circling my ankles
\ncause I keep giving him food, your perfect
\nwelcome of my endless footnotes on how
\nthe farmer\u2019s market felt sad yesterday
\nwithout chanterelles, imbibing your
\nreal-life concerns for how the knife
\nneeds sharpening, and the cat\u2019s appetite
\nneeds monitoring, and your beard
\nneeds trimming, and the car
\nneeds refuelling, and this country
\nneeds root reforming, and all the while,
\ni could not help but realize that nothing
\nreally needed anything, except for that
\nvery moment to be plucked from the canvas
\nand recorded chronology of time and wrapped
\nin the skin of another persimmon, another
\nmost perfect one you\u2019ve ever seen, which
\nyou would (all brave and man-like) split
\ninto two (unequal) halves with your
\nrevered knife from Yerevan, both (somehow)
\nending up in my same stomach
\nbecause i never knew persimmons tasted
\nlike this, this juicy, and of course you approach
\nto taste it too, off my soused tongue, and i
\ndevour that nearness whole, as i would anything
\nfrom your palm, even if i were to live
\noff a handful of water you harvested
\nfrom the skies<\/p>\n

Note: Shortlisted for the Lucent Dreaming 2022 Poetry Prize and published in the Lucent Dreaming \u2018Hope is the Thing\u2019 Anthology (2023)<\/em><\/p>\n

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