որոնեմ
(oronem: to seek, to search. old Armenian)
tempered spirit
heart of a lion
trip-walking through fire
with so little iron
he stumbles upon
the cosmos
but the moon just stares
tangled
tree-trunk limbs
only just branching
before stung
struck down for their hardness
but there is a star sitting softly
at the heart
of all things
the sun at the center
that moves all its satellites
.
keepsake
of musk and cotton
fleeting, unlike
what it keeps
touching upon the nose
memory of a nose royal
in its shape and bearing
such bearing
heavy even on a lion’s heart
but in it, a sun
is being borne
born of a searching
for the cosmos
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