O
Tell me
how you
got here
from there
Tell me
how you
know ours
from yours
Tell me
how you
harvest glean
field corners
Tell me
how you
found your
fig tree
Tell me
how you
sit unafraid
under vines
Tell me
how you
offer tea
break bread
Tell me
how I
have left
you out
(Ger – Hebrew for stranger. This poem is based on the verse of Micah 4:4 – But every family shall sit under its own vine and fig tree )
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Jonathan Memmert has poetry published in journals and anthologies such as Anti Heroin Chic, Heavy Feather Review Side A,Vagabond City, Lone Mountain Literary Society, Poets for Science Global Gallery, and Viridine Literary Journal, among others. He is associate editor for the online poetry journal for emerging poets, The Marbled Sigh. He has an MFA from The City College of New York, and currently lives in New York City.