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ARMENIAN OBSIDIAN
Diana Der Hovanessian, Dancing in the Monastery, Sheep Meadow Press, 2011

Some call this rock “volcanic glass”
or “devil’s finger nails” that claw
their way out of what is past
in arrowheads that now reclaim
the old bows our ancestors aimed
at mountain slopes for mountain game.

Others say they’re mirrored arcs
curving without cleavage, dark
after years reflecting back
invaders whose hearts were black.
They’re from lost times and tides.
But others say these stones, begun
as black pieces of night sky, solidified
falling to earth, wanting to see our sun.

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from The Serpent and The Crane, released April 24, 2020

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Alan Semerdjian New York, New York

Songwriter, poet, and educator Alan Semerdjian has been making and performing music in the NYC/Long Island area and beyond since 1990. His entire annotated musical catalog will be available exclusively here on bandcamp by 2023.

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