Sona’s Son
About Shahé Mankerian
Shahé Mankerian is the principal of St. Gregory Hovsepian School in Pasadena and the co-director of the L.A. Writing Project. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Music Center’s BRAVO Award. In 2017, three literary journals–Border Crossing, Cahoodaloodaling, and Lunch Ticket–nominated Mankerian’s poems for the Pushcart Prize. Recently, he received the 2017 Editors’ Prize from MARY: A Journal of New Writing.
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& your mouth spills
smoke into my mouth
Their faces are very close;
it seems he is whispering to her.
to want to taste something
she cooked, and she,
still there in the freezer, her
script: Chicken Soup