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These Gates
this saffron thread set down within our undistilled winter – unwound its color, stretched yawning against us. will we amble, then, through these gates into a temporary place; wash our hands of in-transient things? a singularity of echo rails against the groundswell, the urban emptiness un- disturbed, as if this garden of brass remains untroubled [...]
Madhur Meets Her Husband
A Pantoum (in trochaic pentameter) Rooftops slid off into darkness, brooding. Madhur let her hair down, softly weeping. “Is there more than this?” the rains alluding, Honey on her lips a secret keeping. Madhur let her hair down, softly weeping. Slipped into the arms of love so tender, Honey on her lips a secret keeping, [...]
Portraits of the Northern California Coast
I. Stonehouse These hills so burnished by the piercing gold Rays that thread and sew the fog in patches, Are such that I’ve already reminisced And long for, tho’ I’ve never really known them; Barren granite, honey-combed and angry, Salt-shorn rocky faces cleft by breezes, Quilted ice-plant bedding, swollen tongues Lapping at the surface of [...]
A Dream of Hanuman
Om Sri Hanumate Namah Karekin M Yarian, August 2006 Drowned within the monsoon air-blush, Symphonic crush of petals, swirling Above the tongue-chant, rushing, I Flush delirious at the scent of you, winged Monkey-warrior-boy, languid against me Resting. Your wind-breath gnarls this Smear-garden of color, your eternal tail restraining, In a tender bondage, coiled. I, time [...]
Big Sur
Soft, sunlit afternoon, our serpentine Negotiation of the coastal route Ascending past the lighthouse at Point Sur Toward Nepenthe’s sweet intoxication, We drove with Mahler’s Fifth, a celebration Of a sort – a palliative to our Carmel. Such sanguine calm, such extraordinary Warmth that radiated through the treetops With the blazing of that great concordant [...]
Elegy to Dust and Dried Roses
(dedicated to my mother) I never saw a rose before the age Of twelve in spite of all the rolling hills, The hopeless green of Pennsylvania farms. We left an emptiness behind to seek An antidote, safe haven from her pain; A marriage dead, the rattle dying still In silent scorn, betrayal, loneliness. Who knew [...]
Odysseus in Sky
(For Skyler, who as Othello will someday take the world by storm) Karekin M Yarian November 09, 2004 For Sky, says “dark night; the infinite blackness of her skin,” She is A ripe fruit, full when I look at her, of savor, complexity. a midnight plum. Oh, “a man – [...]
Three Words for a Muse
You come for conversation, sit At the root of my tongue. I meet your eyes, those startling Birds. Your face is open, Unfathomable, a word Stretched sideways, it defies Meaning and then relents. You tolerate me, appreciate Because I flatter you. I am not yet finished. I stand, offer you My cheek. You reach out [...]
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