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Category: poetry
Annie Charlat – ‘Before the Banquet’
Vashti knew the navy couch. People call her difficult; they don’t know she waited all her life to say no. A dance with destiny […]
Jacqueline Jules – ‘Forty-Four Perfect Candles’
This small blue box, four inches tall, holds forty-four candles. Exactly enough for eight nights provided one or more are not broken, misshapen, […]
Danielle Fisher – “Tragedy”
Tragedy And the thing they don’t tell you about a national tragedy is that the personal tragedies don’t cease her son’s untimely passing, […]
Catherine Gonick – ‘The News I Prayed Not to Hear’
On this Tisha B’Av, I thought of my wife-in-law in Israel. My husband and his ex are both Americans, working together online to secure […]
Talya Jankovits – Two Poems
Lemon Trees Don’t Grow in Poland lemon trees don’t grow in Poland – she tells me,but they do grow outside her den window. Great bursts […]
Lois Villemaire – Two Poems
My Great Grandmother Fannie Living with an aunt, her parents dead, she departs from a dot on the map, the village of Horby […]
Laurel Benjamin – Three Poems
In the Middle 1. Ghosts dreamed in the space between my parents. I read the reflection in their longing (though I didn’t […]
Mildred Faintly – ‘Brest-Litovsk’: A Translation from the Yiddish of Anna Margolin (Lider, 1917)
Brest-Litovsk 1. The old city, the little gray city astride the Mukhovets river, astride the borders of Russia and Poland both, its nationality […]
Anne Myles – Three Poems
Tribe I’m driving towards Santa Fe with my old friend. Around us a landscape as alien as the moon. Sandy ground with tumbleweed […]
Catherine Gonick – Two Poems
Newcomers The only Jews in town, my father’s family was respected. The churchgoers in Red Oak, Iowa considered them People of the Book […]
Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems
Diaspores A broken clothesline leans against its shadow nothing to hang memories on through the stillness of the desert landscape I […]
Lonnie Monka – Three Poems
אמא with an extended index-finger tracing circles in the air you said: “the end must be the beginning it’s all a big loop” lounging […]
Maxim D. Shrayer – Three Poems
Last Will and Testament Thomas Mann has returned to the city of Lübeck. The municipal elders have gathered to welcome him home. He‘s old. […]
Carol Dorf – Four Poems
On A Crowded Bus after Ryzard Krynicki A bus from El Paso is nothing like a train from Friedrichstraße station with its memorial to the children […]
Claire L. Frankel – ‘Reapers’
The seasons roll by first flowers and scent then tiny apples – Bigger and bigger – 25 years in the blink of an eye. […]
Julie Brandon – ‘A Covenant Remembered’
Am I ready to go Somehow bondage seems easier than following a man I’ve never met for a God I don’t remember Multitudes pull […]
Ivan de Monbrison – ‘Two Poems about Childhood’
1. so little depth in this skull crater of bones a hole hiding in it like inside a hollow tooth strange cavity it could […]