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War-torn Valentine

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Nyree Abrahamian is a writer and educator based in Yerevan. Her work is published or forthcoming in Mizna and Poetry Northwest. She produces Country of Dust, a narrative podcast about life in a changing Armenia, and is creative director of the Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival. Nyree is a 2023 Creative Armenia Fellow.

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War-torn Valentine

By Nyree AbrahamianOctober 11, 2024November 29th, 2024No Comments

You ask me what life is like here now and I don't know what to tell you except that
       today I taught my son how to make za'atar toast, not as some sweet                     


passing down of the sacred - I'm just sick of doing it for him. I wonder when
       I can stop doing all of this holding. Crates of soil and tenderness 


and
there is only before and after. On the metro, I sat elbow-to-elbow with new
       wanting. She was sitting, he was standing, and she offered that he sit 


on her lap. I dream of words, of piecing them together, of how they sometimes
       don't match the world. I dream of their music. I zigzagged


across Northern Avenue to avoid the old woman hawking flowers.
It's the day of love,
       she threatened, buy some. In bed, I listened to my mother list the minutiae 


of care for my father. I balanced the rectangle of her face on my knee and twirled
       and twirled her heart-shaped ring that I wear on my index finger.

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Nyree Abrahamian is a writer and educator based in Yerevan. Her work is published or forthcoming in Miznaand Poetry Northwest. She produces Country of Dust, a narrative podcast about life in a changing Armenia, and is creative director of the Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival. Nyree is a 2023 Creative Armenia Fellow.

Nyree Abrahamian is a writer and educator based in Yerevan. Her work is published or forthcoming in Mizna and Poetry Northwest. She produces Country of Dust, a narrative podcast about life in a changing Armenia, and is creative director of the Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival. Nyree is a 2023 Creative Armenia Fellow.

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