Stephen Lindow asked Anahit Arustamyan:

Dear Anahit A. I've never done this before. I don't often use the GoodReads website. I got you as a friend, though we've never met. I'm in Florida. You are in Armenia. Wow. 'The Phantom's Dolphin' sounds intriguing. Can you post one of your poems? Here? I just posted seven senryu. I've been writing poetry for 30 years.

Anahit Arustamyan Dear Stephen. I sometimes use GoodReads website. I with post one of my poems from my new book Where I Meet Myself. The Phantom's Dolphin includes my prose poems.

LIFE'S REPLY

The spirit is a script that lies between the lines.
The phantom seems mystic to the living ones.
The angel was a human once upon a time.
Life paints a canvas with a destiny's brush.
How many brushes might belong to life?
The sky smiles so do I.
The sky cries so do I.
The sky smiles with the sun's eyes.
Doesn't it talk with the stars' tongues?
Maybe yes, but the voices don't arrive.
I ask God what the phantom is like.
O no, this question must be given to life.
I ask God what life is like.
Past, present and future seem to be zigzag lines.
Which is mine?
I dare to ask life.
''Present''! Isn't it life's reply?

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