i
in love with the idea
of loving you
adoring the notion
of adoring you
yearning just to
yearn for you
even dreamt about
dreaming about you
missing the longing
of missing you
ii
thinking these thoughts
while conjuring and
scratching out these lines
from afar
from afar
some distant corner
of my fallow mind
from afar
but rooted in some
genetically coded
sameness
from afar
too far
Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
Experts
say the law was written in such a way as to ensure that it was
unlikely
to ever apply to Jewish extremists who commit similar crimes.
~ New York Times, March 30, 2026
the powerless
have the power
the subjugated
now subjugating
the once pacific
armed to the teeth
those disenfranchised
now disenfranchising
once viewed as vile
less than human
viewing others
just as vile and heathen
casting them as animals
those that were gassed
about to hang 'em high
a village for a tooth
cities for an eye
a hospital for a house
the powerless
with the power
have become
what they
hated
finding my voice
using it well to mine
a wave of poems
loden in the bedrock
below the basement
of my soul
the voice
getting hoarse
i feel it waning
the vein is baning out
the well, just sludge
the river, wadifying
the metaphors
coming up lame
bereft and wandering
in a world gone mad
lonely in a loving fold
joy coming only
from the stars
in the desert
night sky of
my mind's eye
one two three, four five
expressing, something
curcina, for you
meg yergu yer-ek çors
the way my, heart works
oddly beats, when you
just enter, a room
dum tek tek, dum tek
bir iki, üç dört
wanting to, jump up
and surç bar, with you
wanting to, watch your
naz nousing, sweet dance
hoppa pa, hopa
march 17, 2026
for this one, you might need
hagop martayan dilâçer's alphabet
kaleidoscopic
continuous blossoming
fold upon fold
upon unfoldings
cacophonous harmonies
of a mobius rainbow
understandably
just out of reach
head bobbing from
gyumri to our souls
is anyone going
anywhere near her
where she lives now
in scarborough, yeah,
with the parsley
the fair and all
should i send
my greetings
some herbs
have you kiss
the eyes of the
one who lives
there
we were something
once upon a time
(mighta said thyme)
then it just ended
maybe she said
something i said
makes no nevermind
since it's always
gotta be on me
once we were
really something
then it grounded and
thudded to a dull end
we didn't think twice
and it's alright...'
forget about this notion
taking my greetings
with you, to give her
i'll just text her this
march 7, 2026
you know what to listen to
when you read this...
just two of us
lobbied in a
community kinda
college i never
been to or taught at
me grading exams
him learning to play
the accordion
i sure hope i didn't
distract him too much
