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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,
his grandpa’s terminal diagnosis,
lights blinking on and off,
each one suffering
alone in the dark
and the nation
heaves
And it hits me
like the bombs
they have 90 seconds
to run from:
that maybe
he’ll never
live to see
peace.
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Danielle Fisher’s work has been published in Valiant Scribe, The Sunlight Press, JewishFiction.net, The Jewish Literary Journal, JOFA Journal, Poetica, Hevria Magazine, and Aish.com. Her fiction manuscript about a shtetl who discovers their Torah magically growing– for which she is currently seeking publication–was recognized as the winning historical fiction manuscript of the Writer League of Texas’ 2020 Manuscript Contest. You can read her work at danielleresh.com.