Outstretched limbs trail faded, crisp tefillin strips, ushering the rising tongues that seek a fresh bed of ash for every generation _______ […]
Month: November 2024
Carol Coven Grannick – Two Poems
Forever Shiva My mother’s mood was for talking and mine, for listening: stories of childhood on Chicago’s old West Side, reiterative: handsome adored […]
Alex Gordon – ‘The Honest Man’
Every non-French person has their own image of France, literary, historical, gastronomic, architectural. When I was learning French as a child, I often looked […]
Jen Rudin – ‘This is Sylvia. I Can Hear You’
(A companion piece to ‘This is Stu. Leave a Message’) This is the hospital they’ve taken me to? Sylvia thinks, looking up from a gurney […]
Barbara Schilling Hurwitz – ‘Fashion Statement’
Donning my IDF uniform of coarse green cloth I become one of them a shapeless fighter one of many, my individuality no longer identifiable […]
Lawrence Winkler – ‘Soap’
‘What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.’ Yiddish Proverb The new direction of the train woke me. Vertical. I looked out […]
Emily Alice Katz – ‘Awake and Light your Lamp with the Oil of Gladness’
She did find the address of the apartment near the Machane Yehuda Market, but her niece Libby wasn’t home. Or didn’t actually live there. It wasn’t […]