House Of Dengbej

House of Dengbêj

In The House Of Dengbej

Three sisters

Each in crimson velvet

And veiled hair.

Relate tales

Of interracial love.

Of Armenian Boys and Kurdish Gals.

This is a town of

Cobbled streets and redbrick houses of the ancient Lore.

Diyarbakir, Sur.

Fidus Achates: an Armenian gal and a Kurdish girl

Are no more. The ghosts of the Armenians; translucent

Still linger on the mud walls.

Poplar trees cast melancholy shadows

Over the last remaining residents

Mostly Kurdish

Soon to join the ghosts of the Armenians?

Still the guerrilla resistance continues.

Behind the soiled curtains of white lace.

Death is a banality. Blood spills on baked soil

Daily.

Freedom is a distant land to be conquered.

Wine making and relating tales of ancient lores

And the allure. Lures the youth to Sur.

The House of Dengbej in Sur.

Finest stories are spun like sugar

And spread from tongue to tongue.