Christine Alexanians

One of the highlights of the UCLA Festival of Books at the Authors' Coop booth was the poetry hour on Sunday April 26, 2009. I read two new poems Horses and Fractured Solitude to an audience of more than 50 people. Four other fellow poets, Pardis Bagherzadeh, Sona Ovasapyan, award winning Don Kingfisher Campbell and award winning Carolyn Howard-Johnson also recited from their latest collections.

Because of the limited space in our booth we had the chance to read on the LA Times stage.

C. Alexanians, P. Bagherzadeh, S. Ovasapyan, D. Kingfisher-Campbell, C. Howard-Johnson (Left to right)

Fractured Solitude

Silence

where nature communicates

 with my soul's inner layers

Silence welcomes a breeze like a famous musician.

allows the birds’ call

the buzzing of insects

amplifies the song of water

the applause of leaves.

breaks for a ducks' warning of danger

a fly searching for treasure.

Silence witnesses the mushrooms grow

the dragonfly kiss the pond

the flowers bloom.

I inhale the silence

lock it in my heart.

I’m not alone anymore.