I am not going to leave you
seam is thus created
blood
transcription
the scalpel dormant within a reed instrument
neither current nor tested character
spottings
2 2 2 2 2
the result a speech act
blood versions
horizontally
now
there’s a wall where we shared
choices outside inside
music still
motivation
see how rhythm milks noise
compare backgrounds
the visual immediate
once we start some say
cities also will.
Arpine Konyalian Grenier
Arpine Konyalian Grenier comes from science, music, languages, and the arts. A graduate of the American University of Beirut; and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York, she has authored four collections: St. Gregory’s Daughter; Whores from Samarkand; Part, Part, Euphrates; The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins. Recent work can be found at Journal of Poetics Research, Word/for/Word, Big Bridge, and Barzakh. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
