Showing posts with label Christopher Janigian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Janigian. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2019

April 24th 2019 reading in New York City (streamed event)



The event was streamed:

https://www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop/videos/2117403338561093/

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Christopher Janigian: Bastille Day


Trees bend here. 
Then venom spills into 
thick canals— 

they harbor 
lifeless barges. Men blow 
ghosts, burn lung—hands run 

through hair. The throat 
grows a rose—blooming blood 
by the villa. Words 

vein, roll from 
someone’s tongue. Bent 
god: flash by 

with your bullet vest. 
Do not watch this 
terrible sky— 

lightning cracks it 
with yellow saw-teeth. It is not 
for you. The dark-

skinned man stands, rises 
to popular flux: locked 
hands, perfect soldiers. Eye 

contact costs a fortune. Black-
eyed god: watch the high 
wheel of bone. 

O, stone and river. This place 
swells with soldiers. Again 
shadows swarm the streets: police 

in bombshell suits spit 
at helmeted heads, 
lazy tongues. We pass one 

mouth I will match: 
the dead sphinx. I will stare 
into the numb umbrella of a hood.


Christopher Janigian is a senior at Brown University concentrating in Literary Arts and English Literature. 


This poem has previously appeared in Issue VII, Fall 2012 of The Round, a Brown University literary publication.