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The Literary Groong - 08/06/2005

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	WALKING THROUGH GLASS DOORS

	by Diana Der-Hovanessian


	It looked easy enough.
	One foot. Then the other.
	Step. Over the threshold
	to the other side.
	The door looked open,
	even welcoming
	under its arched frame.
	Start. One step. Two.
	Why count? Go. I did.
	Ran in fact.
	But didn't reach the other
	side in the same shape
	I began. The glass door
	dividing here from there
	neatly as I walked
	through my impatience
	bounced me back.
	I got up, shook off
	the shock pretending
	accidents are planned.


--
Diana Der Hovanessian is a Fulbright professor of American literature
at Yerevan State University in 1994 and 1999, she is author of 17
books and has published in American Scholar, Poetry, Harvard Review,
Nation, Paris Review, New Republic, and her poetry is regularly
published in the Christian Science Monitor. She has awards from the
Columbia Translation Center, P.E.N., Writers Union of America, and the
Writers Union of Armenia.

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