Armen Davoudian’s poems and translations from Persian have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Narrative, The Sewanee Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His work has been supported by scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.

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POETRY

Alibi

By ARMEN DAVOUDIAN

We sat together in the country
where men like us can sit together
like this.