Keith Garebian: FIBONACCI VARIATIONS

1. ETHNIC CLEANSING                               2. ARMENIAN SOUP
     
He                                                            Grass
calls                                                         weeds
the genocide                                             buds, leaves
and his jihad                                             make a soup
an ethnic cleansing, and so                          in a battered copper pot
becomes father to a race of Al Zarqawis.      that they drink and vomit,the
                                                               starving Armenians.

3. STRONG MEDICINE                                4. TURKISH QUESTIONS
     
A                                                                Where
love                                                            is
for facts                                                      Christ now?
and unvarnished truth:                                 Where is Jesus?
proves too strong a dose                              the Turks mock, leading a
for the Turk who coughs up daily falsehoods.      donkey with a mangy dog 
                                                                        on its back.


5. ARMENIAN QUESTION                              6. DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL
     
Who’d                                                         They
choose                                                        leave
this history                                                 a place
we have lived                                             of sudden knives 
for centuries in ruined Eden                         slicing into young and old 
enduring holocausts by murderers                and arrive where death burns
who never abide truth?                               through any skin