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ARMENIAN OBSIDIAN
Diana Der Hovanessian, Dancing in the Monastery, Sheep Meadow Press, 2011

Some call this rock “volcanic glass”
or “devil’s finger nails” that claw
their way out of what is past
in arrowheads that now reclaim
the old bows our ancestors aimed
at mountain slopes for mountain game.

Others say they’re mirrored arcs
curving without cleavage, dark
after years reflecting back
invaders whose hearts were black.
They’re from lost times and tides.
But others say these stones, begun
as black pieces of night sky, solidified
falling to earth, wanting to see our sun.

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from The Serpent and The Crane, released April 24, 2020

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Aram Bajakian New York

The music of guitarist, composer and educator Aram Bajakian has been called “a masterpiece” (fRoots, July 2017), “shape- shifting” (FreeJazzCollective, January 2017), and “astonishing” (Georgia Straight, March 2017).
He has toured extensively with Lou Reed and Diana Krall, and is on three Tzadik albums with the band Abraxas performing the music of John Zorn.
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