1Jan 2018 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

RESOLUTION

In the hours past midnight they sleep with prayer crumbs on parted lips mapping when Jupiter, Venus and Mars will align you lean on your bourbon writing elegies on dark... Read More
editors note:

In the early hours of Nova Annum, we resolve to be ready for our muse to give us something with which to fill this year. – mh clay

24Dec 2016 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

The Christmas Tree

Uprooted misplaced center of volatile calm stoic devotion to enliven the embalmed transient equivocal exuberance foreplay of distraction branches heavy with unsustainable serenity yet carefully lovingly I wrap around it... Read More
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It’s not the space it occupies in our home, it’s just a tree after all; but, the space in our hearts… – mh clay

1Jan 2016 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

Resolution

In the year of the monkey you will write elegies on dark windowpanes with shuttered ears and cobblestones in dark narrow streets will catch rain’s grievance in puddles lit in... Read More
editors note:

This New Year will be Happy if we make it so! Reverse those fortunes; when in with the bad air, (go) out with the good. – mh clay

29Dec 2014 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

FALLING

In rind of wishes sticky on lips and sermons’ echo on facepsalms slipping in envies squirted on spruce and cedar whims twirling, spiraled, speckled gossamer visions of friendships withered in... Read More
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Holiday nostalgia; bittersweet images of friendships come and gone. In the end we express for ourselves; no expectations of someone to catch us “at the other end.” – mh

20Jun 2014 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

Stiletto Elegy

A tear abased, a finch dead mid-air, berated in haste xxxis it too late? xxxxxxis it too late, now that I wear black on black no ink to scribble your... Read More
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No, not too late; so long as you keep your hands to yourself and your feet on the floor. – mh

12Jan 2014 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

Poets in a Pub

Pints of beer link our troubles in broken chain lips on brims speckled with words we chase asleep cigarette-breaks coil conversations around a floating spool ever dripping with rain caught... Read More
12Jan 2014 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

Sentimental

November calms restless swallows as they leave me, blue mise en scène in air night’s cool breath, jazz purling fogging closed windows eases panic of empty beds scent of serein... Read More
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A poet’s idle mind invokes image from ennui – not a bad day’s laze. – mh

24Aug 2013 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

LIVED WELL

He watched them dance in a haze last of his wine in his hand frayed life remnants in his pen they danced for him those who bled him those he... Read More
24Aug 2013 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

ROOFTOP

I die at dusk every day on a rooftop in a city with no name daughters unborn to me mourn in bruised nights' wombs voices I do not recognize utter... Read More
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The night draws close, no vistas, so dark. Remember your love in the daylight as you take down the linens. – mh

29Mar 2013 Silva Zanoyan Merjanian

INNER BEAUTY

She had a glimpse drip from corner of a sudden smile she caught it as she would the rain in her mouth a glimpse like shadow of a bird that... Read More
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It’s a sand grit blink, a wind whispered wash at the edge of sight. Did you catch it? – mh