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· A Double Murder in Los Angeles

· Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country

· O Woman, I am a Lily of the Valley...

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· Our Minds Were Drifting

· Ode to Mental Patients

· Pisces Girl

· Happy as a Goose

· I Don't Belong

· A Screaming Poem

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Deborah, I think you'll understand...

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Deborah,
I think you’ll understand what I mean
when at night I sleep on the surfaces of books
and dream of paper attics

Thursday, July 2, 2026


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Deborah, I think you'll understand...

Deborah,
I think you’ll understand what I mean
when at night I sleep on the surfaces of books
and dream of paper attics

Through the green mesh of your eyes
I see rooftops of innocence
and hills of joy

Oh how brilliant you are in the milky moon
Oh how tender is your walk through my eardrums

I collapse in my drunkenness
and watch the skies of wonder, Oh Deborah
I kiss the thin fabric of your lips
and journey through your hair

I’m lost, my love, in your negligee
of white horses and silky winds
Teach me the arithmetic of who you are
for I cannot add nor subtract your splendor

The rain falls blue above your wild eyes
my love
and I’m born again to wonder
if that sweet kiss
has made me whisper
upon your fair skin.

  June 19, 1988
--Alexander Shaumyan

 

Deborah, je pense que tu comprendras...

Deborah,
je pense que tu comprendras ce que je veux dire
quand je dors la nuit aux surfaces des livres
et rêve des mansardes en papier

Dans le réseau vert de tes yeux
je voix des toits d’innocence
et des collines de joie

Ô toi qui es si brillante sous la lune laiteuse
Ô toi qui marches si gentiment par mes tympans

Je m’écroule dans mon ivresse
et regarde le ciel de merveille, Ô Deborah
J’embrasse le tissu fin de tes lèvres
et fais un voyage par tes cheveux

Je suis perdu, mon amour, dans ton négligé
de chevaux blancs et de vents soyeux
Enseigne-moi l’arithmétique de qui que tu es
parce que je ne peux ni additionner
ni soustraire ta splendeur

La pluie tombe bleue au-dessus des tes yeux enjoués
mon amour
et je nais de nouveau à me demander
si ce baiser doux
m’a fait chuchoter
sur ta peau délicate.

   20 juin 1988
--Alexander Shaumyan
 

 

 

The Door: Selected Poems



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