William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

A Child’s Christmas

A great many years ago, my mother accidentally dropped a copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám out of the library window. About thirty years later, I saw it on my brother’s bookshelf. She’d inscribed it to him as a gift!

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A Child’s Christmas

Whence this peace

falling

into

this

upturned palm?

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