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What is it that conjures up feelings of longing every time I hear a song, whether it be of a flower, a poplar, or the mountain Ararat, and extends beyond its realms of intermingled rocks and fields and lacy, rose-toned walls to penetrate my senses – not allowing me to bend and blend?

Although not from its realms, I am of it.

Knarik Meneshian was born in Austria, from an Armenian father and an Austrian mother. She’s married and is a writer and a teacher. She has also taught ESL in the village of Jrashen (Spitak region), Armenia in 1991. Various of her works, - (poems, short stories, articles, reviews, - have been published in American and Armenian publications. She has authored “Reflections”, a book of poems, and translated to “Musa Dagh - The Banishment of Zeitoun and Suedia’s Revolt” by Rev. D. Antreassian, from Armenian to English.