Tatev Chakhian's contribution to our Call for Poems on the topic of epidemics, illness, medicine, death and healing
Tatev Chakhian of Poznan, Poland, contributed these two original poems in response to the 2020 Pandemic. Her personal website is www.tatevchakhian.com
is the last thing covered in the news program in this country,
or, rather, is covered in news ticker alone.
By rather I mean once in twenty years:
once a revolution erupts.
And in between those revolutions,
people in my country write poems on
a mountain,
a stone,
a sparrow,
a sparrow sitting on a tree by the stone;
reporters would say, local issues, for that matter.
In the country, I am talking about,
this country is in the headlines every day.Of course, here poets also write on
a mountain,
a stone,
a sparrow,
a sparrow sitting on a tree by the stone;
which, as a matter of international scale, is never covered.