Nora Nadjarian Biography

In the audience,
the eyes of the astonished shells.

My body is water,
voluminous, untamed.
...

The time came when they longed to return.
My father walked circles in the living room,
my mother packed and unpacked her hands.
We will leave when the rain stops, they said.
The rain in this country is so unkind.
...

They moved into the house
and wishing it wasn't so empty
opened a window to let everything in -
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He and she take it in turns to row the boat with their arms,
eat raw fish, read moonlit maps, crush stars into milk, swallow storms.
They kiss dark nights and suck the strength of each other's breath,
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A whole sea between us-

You said we could meet half-way, if we swam.
You said we could, it is only a sea-
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