The swallow flies east every spring. Past Lake Urmia. Past the broken bridge at Van. It lands on a khachkar that is not yet carved, in a kingdom that will call itself Hayastan long after Elamite is a ghost.
The cliff keeps both truths.
He did not copy the swallow.
But what I carved between the words?
The swallow flies east every spring. Past Lake Urmia. Past the broken bridge at Van. It lands on a khachkar that is not yet carved, in a kingdom that will call itself Hayastan long after Elamite is a ghost.
The cliff keeps both truths.
He did not copy the swallow.
But what I carved between the words?