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H.M. Merjian

H.M. Merjian: Father Phantom

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

“I desperately tried to shake him off, but the monster pressed his thighs tighter and tighter              around my throat until I could no longer breathe.” Sinbad: “Thousand and One Nights” When I grew older the other creature appeared, The second father formed, a putrid pisachee He carried on his back, its nails knived into his […]

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H.M. Merjian: Aleppo: 1915

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

“You eat the eyes first. Do you understand?” In the large dish a boiled lamb’s head In broth, “patcha” —lamb’s head soup. The feast of Easter; Paschal Anatolia. I dreaded the festival of the head, This ritual of eating the lamb of god, Leaving what simple sins my childhood Offered, the mouth, the hot white […]

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H.M. Merjian

June 9, 2014 by PBQ

H.M. Merjian was born into an immigrant family in New York City and was raised, educated and shaped on its streets and schools. He spoke a polyglot of languages, reflecting the genocidal wanderings of his parents; survival tongues: Armenian, Turkish, Arabic and Greek. Escaping the Big Apple, he now lives on what the Brits would […]

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