Tape Recorder
My tape recorder
Plays symphonies backwards.
From where I’m sitting I can hear
Two drunk dogs whistling at the moon.
No, howling. No, whistling. Maybe howling.
Maybe neither– nor.
NORA NADJARIAN is a poet and writer from Cyprus. She is the author of three
collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, “Ledra Street”. Her
poems and short stories have been included in various anthologies and journals
in Cyprus, Germany, India, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and the United States.
She has won prizes or been commended in various international competitions,
including the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth
Short Story Competition, and the Féile Filíochta International Poetry
Competition (Ireland). In 2009, her story “And the Seven Dwarves” was a finalist
from over 900 submissions in the Binnacle Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short
Competition at The University of Maine at Machias (USA).
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