We live in an age of Anchorage,
not Salem. I won’t burn you at the stake,
but I’ll burn through men’s bodies with
ghosted texts and green-gold eyes.
Remember that March 7, 2009 hookup? Don’t,
just another Saturday. Lilting laziness and
too many glasses of Hendricks to remember your
name, last or first or otherwise.
It’s June 2024. Here are my terms —-
We can toe the line to conspiracy,
conjecture petty crimes,
pretend to party in Parisian crowds.
No photographs, please.
Courtship is better in a courtroom.
Veil me in violence, and let’s
dive together like a polar plunge,
spiral into civility. Wedding dress me up,
tie the tangles of my hair unto yours,
till death do us part,
sincerely yours,
eternity.
Danielle Mikaelian is a graduate of Columbia University with a BA in English Literature. At Columbia, she enrolled in multiple poetry writing workshops and studied under poets like Brian Wiora and Dorothea Lasky. She was named Columbia University's 2021 Student of the Year in recognition of her contributions to campus life. Danielle Mikaelian's poems have previously been published in HyeBred Magazine and The Armenian Weekly. At Columbia, Danielle was President of the Columbia Armenian Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of Columbia's Women in Law and Politics Journal. Danielle Mikaelian is currently a student at Harvard Law School, where she acts as Co-President of the Harvard Armenian Law Students Association and the Executive Vice President of Operations for the Harvard Association for Law and Business. She plans to move to New York upon graduating.
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