Yerevan in Winter (poem)

Yerevan in Winter

As we hewed words from the stone tower,

the planets completed their orbit.

Ice cracked & froze.

Our glass walls gazed on the circus below.

Cars sailed through smog.

Buses creaked their way to work.

As we sat secluded in our icy fortress,

the firmaments lit the horizons

that translated our union into words.

I watched you stare into the abyss.

I watched, passing

the lives we could have lived.

I watched our fates diverge,

& our shadows merge.

I watched the images

from our quarry twist & turn,

then melt like snowflakes

in the crisp morning snow.