#¡TERYAN

[metamorphesque]

"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[lunamarish]

Vaghi ovunque, non sei, Invisibile, parli nel mondo, Improvvisamente, impensatamente, mormori: “Verrai”, Incanti, chiami, chiami e taci.

Nelle foglie di fiori delicatamente profumati, Nell'oceano assopito di pianure tranquille e luminose, E nella notte stellata e misteriosa, E nella culla argentata delle acque,

Tu hai gettato un desiderio ovunque. Hai steso la tua ombra infinita nel mondo. Stai intrecciando la tua rete d'oro di stelle, adorni la notte e rafforzi la vita.

E perso nelle vie del mondo Vago e cerco senza speranza, Ho sentito la tua voce dolce e luminosa, Ti chiamo, ma il tuo nome non lo conosco.

Vahan Teryan (trad. @lunamarish)

[wordswithloveee]

[xiyade]

Я больше чем думаю о тебе, — я живу о тебе.

I don't just think about you, I live about you.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

[blocky-tides]

clingyduo; we are best friends, two hands of the same body— it no longer feels like a comfort in my mouth

vahan teryan / cynthia ozick / danez smith / @art--harridan / yevgeny yevtushenko / fleur jaeggy / kim quindlen / safia elhillo / @ahhhdownwego / mary szybist / @honeytuesday / forugh farrokhzad / mahmoud darwish / robert wood lynn / @shoestrum / bianca stone / carl phillips / @doodlebloo

[madamescarlette]

NOVEMBER 2023 (I loved you completely, and you loved me the same. The rest is confetti.)

Louise Glück / Eli McMullen / Caitlyn Siehl / Cheryl Strayed / Guimi You / Molly Fisk / Sara Teasdale / Vahan Teryan / Madeleine Jubilee Saito / Mary Oliver / Marya Hornbacher / Zheng Wei Gu / Victor Frankl / Mine / Weyes Blood photographed by Neil Krug / Victoria Chung / Mine / Marie Howe / Marion Sonet / Rosanna Warren

[balladofthe101st]

abject permanence by larissa pham // the worm king's lullaby in war of the foxes by richard siken // griffin mcelroy // to forget, to forget by vahan teryan

[lonelychicago]

—Vahan Teryan, "Sweeter than life ..." (translated by @metamorphesque)

[lovelyangryheart]

Vahan Teryan, Armenian poet, 1885-1920

[the-jovian-plutonian-effect]

@ameesh / vahan teryan / myself / myself & virginia woolf / ocean yuong / chen chen / @koddlet / mary oliver / TENDER / @chelfaust

[metamorphesque]

from Vahan Teryan's letter to Nvard Toumanyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[cargostuck]

Oh shit, first contact

Karkat is terribly confused when he sees a picture of a human for the first time. The empire releases a public service announcement, pictures from first contact, videos, diagrams, audio recordings, updates every empire-controlled information website - So much, all at once.

They have small, round ears, incapable of emoting in any way, and if the images weren't annotated with details on which faces mean what, Karkat would probably assume they were picking a fight. They smile with their teeth, even the short, weak-looking humans, and their legs are a little too long for his comfort. He gets a feeling of uncanny valley looking at their weird, contorted expressions on their hornless, strange faces. To make it worse, their blood is red. Not just maroon, proper mutant cherry red. He feels his sensory hairs bristling.

Karkat listens to the recordings again and again. The aliens have such a massive variety of languages, each one sounding stranger than the next, shifting between long, lilting phrases and short words in a treasure-trove of tones. It's fascinating. He stares at how their mouths move, how their tongue seems to control a majority of their noises, and it is all so unfamiliar. He finds himself mimicking the strange, soft voices, clumsily mispronouncing the sounds, approximating the sounds as best he can. He wonders if he could learn any of the languages.

One of his barrack-mates, a bronzeblood named Teryan, hisses at him to close his husktop and go the fuck to sleep. Karkat hisses back, telling him to choke on a recuperacoon filter. He doesn't have it in him to go for a better insult, but Teryan just snarls at him a little and dips below the slime again.

[iseo58]

Armenian traditional costume or Garmet of Vaspurakan by Teryan Cultural Centre at Megerian Carpet

[wordswithloveee]

[neverneverland]

To forget, to forget everything, everyone, Not to love, not to think, not to grieve— just to leave.

— Vahan Teryan (metamorphesque)

[llovelymoonn]

nycterine

e.e. cummings uncollected poems: "longing" \\ li bai (tr. david hinton) mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient china: "drinking alone beneath the moon" \\ clarice lispector collected stories: "the foreign legion" \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath \\ simeone de beauvoir diary of a philosophy student: volume 2, 1928-9: "tuesday, october 9" \\ vahan teryan lullaby for myself \\ sarah williams the old astronomer to his pupil \\ wang an-shih (tr. louise s. hammond) night-time in spring

kofi