Yerevan in Winter
“I watched you stare into the abyss…”
Yerevan in Winter
As we hewed words from the stone tower, the planets completed their orbit. Ice cracked & froze.
Our glass walls gazed on the circus below. Cars sailed through smog. Buses creaked their way to work.
As we sat secluded in our icy fortress, the firmaments lit the horizons that translated our union into words.
I watched you stare into the abyss. I watched the passage of the lives we could have lived.
I watched our fates diverge, & our shadows merge. I watched the images
from our quarry twist & turn, then melt like snowflakes in the crisp morning snow.