It is not often I read a poetry journal I like rather a lot and then have the opportunity to have something I wrote appear in its pages. The good people at Spine have published four sonnets based on the 1915 Armenian Genocide I wrote last November. I had been listening to a Hye […]
Yarimo / To My Love comes from Datevik Hovanesian’s 1998 album Listen To My Heart. I have used the phrase before in an earlier poem but I like it so much I am using it again. Please enjoy.
Give up my name. Give up my form; this form
I call my body. Angels do […]
Istanbul, Turkey; 19 January, 2007.
If you were here, on this day, this one day in January, we would have wandered through the streets of Istanbul together. I have only been to the city once, years ago, having taken an autobus along the long coast of the Black Sea from Georgia. I stayed in a little […]