Alex Ekmekji

Alec Ekmekji was born in Aleppo, Syria, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1966. He holds B.S and M.S degrees in Physics, and works in the aerospace industry. His poetry and short stories have appeared in Eghties and Aspora, and in the bilingual anthology of Armenian-American poetry Birthmark. He has also contributed theater and music reviews to the Armenian Observer. Currently, he is translating selected poems of Zareh Melkonian into English.

Articles

Exile And Seduction

First, they take away father. They return the same evening And take away his belongings: His clothes, his shoes, his stories and songs. Mother does not know how to resist the intruders And consoles us with fractured sentences, With words shattered into jagged-edged syllables Like the family photographs hurled Onto the grand mirror in the hall. The tall man wearing the unfamiliar hat Parts the lull of the next afternoon With measured strides....