Tell My Eyes

- Tell me what my eyes look like
Your eyes are like 8560 summers
Your eyes are like the silence uttered through 8560 megaphones
Your eyes are like two handfuls of crystal water
A ladybird floating in each portion
Your eyes are like a still-life with two black oranges
Your eyes are like a two-fingered pole for snake hunt
Your eyes are like nails painted black
When you wink
Your eyes are like the palpitating lights in night clubs
Your eyes are my favorite cinema
Especially when I ape before them
And in the depth of your eyes see the reflection of my eyes
In which you’re aping back
When you laugh
Your eyes resemble the windmill that fooled Don Quixote
When you laugh
Your eyes look like bursting soap bubbles
When you flirt with your eyes
They resemble underwear slipped halfway down
When you weep
Your eyes are like Christ’s perforated hands
When you weep
Your eyes are like the quicksilver leaking out of the crushed thermometer
When you weep
Your eyes are like goldfish flowing out of a smashed acquarium
And when you dry your eyes
I know no fulfillment of wish Beyond the power of those goldfish

 

 

February 8, 2005
To Anoush Karenina
Karen Karslyan
Yerevan, Armenia

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