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Arpine Konyalian Grenier

Nazle Douzle Crossing

Trails borne by somewhere being elsewhere nudge me

contemplatives out of pasture at the river elegantly

overtaken by river


beyond the shadows patience deems sky

bird and blue theory for the night

guise as guile trigger

I cannot follow


this back and forth firmament gone wild is my head

waterfall and cliffs landscape I have come into

grinding direction testing chance

ceded by the job of dreams


the flow ambush to hope


down here we’ve got butterflies and terrace

the oak tree and change of seasons

pomegranate seeds crimsonly

seated in Kekule design

keen on rapture


morning rendering itself emptied of limbs

fog and sky immediacy and sheen

a whole now astonished

wanton glitter


the crane of the sky has returned to sky

motherland mossed into heartland

tracking nocturnal caves

I sail by


sail by April by love by flock or herd


beckon at chance and other whispered graces

below turns and facets reminding me of self

below the aesthetic or smart of syllables

clothing my captivity


what cherished color gender country

trigger and front-end positions

root below tune and cloud

what named us


Mihran to Merwan to Merwin

justly civic and passionate

pulse barrier/ carrier


remember the old man who vanished in the night

talking to himself without looking at you

something never yours fragrant

walking you buffing you


remember turning blind and daybreak as artifact

the river and ridges your frequencies shifted

how you felt and happened on that

ana baba gun day


to have had that is rune ethnography

moment to moment living your death


roar into laughter and beam expansion

pressure reduction/ equalization


laugh off and away the brackish landscape


kingless birdless darkened apple you

morning frost greets scintillated

hyper odd still magnet red

lushly into crimson


measurement apparatus information


trust that better noted pitch and overtones

perceived nag as when stressed

numbers thing data

naz to douz

provide

meaning matter


figure of merit unlike phonology repositioning the ear

the self the body your smart dust depends on

balancing acts over notes

around the spatial

the unspeakables


tighten them to stretch/ close to open

the work gliding the works

just as only justified

nasal to vowel.