Armenian News Network / Groong
December 17, 2022
Fragments
Fragments
We are allowed
fragments
Fragments of happiness,
stress, distress
Fragments of arguments,
retorts, refrains
Fragments of
shorelines, memories, holding hands
Fragments of erections,
welcoming inner embrace
Fragments
Midnight howls, traffic
jams, thoughts dispersed, drenched
Indeterminate,
intermittent, interspersed, poisoned breath
My things and your
things and our things and their things
Interminable, inexact,
blaming the innocent, fetishizing fest
Fragments
Sheared off parcels of
our existence stranded, stained
Every ill will, every
ill thought
Every lusting, lasting,
leased life fragments
Growling, rolling over
in gravel and broken glass
Fragments that add to
no mosaic, no hosannahs
No tomorrows, no
eagle’s nests, no statue so pigeons rest
Just wind-swept
memories floating on a barge out at sea
There is a crying
child, a dying mother, there is silence, always unrest.
Pleasanton, CA
8-5-2022
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Dr.
Bedros Afeyan is a theoretical physicist who works and
lives in the Bay Area with his wife Marine. He writes in Armenian and in
English, and also paints and sculpts. He is the current editor of The Literary Groong. |
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