“Shad tezh-var eh,” her voice betrays how hard it is to carry the now.
She speaks in village Armenian,
the cobbled tongue of those expelled to foreign lands.
Her words hang, weighty, like ripe pomegranates,
bittersweet with memories of home.
“Teach it to me,” you insisted.
Shyly, I pronounced it in English, “Nuh-DEEN Ah-ROXY Dis-lee-OG-loo.”
“No, teach it to me the way your parents named you.”
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When I was accepted into my graduate program, the first person I called was my mom. She had told me
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by Paula Kjdrian Tonight I am just another slut, only in white. A pandora’s box, an attempt to see if
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By Maria Kjdrian Content Warning: sexual assault, childhood trauma I remember that child, that happy, go-lucky child. I have pictures
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