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NO EXIT
By Shushan Avagyan
Installation by L. Bourgeois, 1989
Like two commas
that cut
a flight of words into halves
these, too, are fat and slow
guarding the stairwell
with their Sphinx eyes
wrinkled in stagnation
there is no exit for them.
But you still can whisk through
to the stairs
hidden so well behind the screen,
first, train your feet
and then
grow a feather with each step.
Note: This poem appeared in The Spoon River Poetry Review,
Winter/Spring 2005.
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Shushan Avagyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She is currently
working on her doctoral degree in English Studies, and is a
recipient of the Dalkey Archive Press fellowship at the Illinois
State University.