Tag: 2023
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Chicken Chow Mein
A little girl sat at my table,surprising me, opened a padof paper and packet of markers.She drew a tic-tac-toe boardwith assorted…
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As She Was
breathing in the rain,she felt the watercollect on her skin,clinging to herlike a rose petalholding on untilthe very last momentShe…
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Jerusalem Marathon
They gathered near the Knesset. High school girls in modest skirts color-matched with running tights, yeshiva students sporting brand-name running…
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Ice Chips
Do you remember I read to you those cloudy afternoons? You sat intheir big bed like a doll, dark eyelashes…
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Chalk Lines
To ease my mind with craftI marked scratchy-soft linenwith blue chalk to center a monogram that’s stitching now on the…
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Those Kitchen Shears
Those Kitchen Shears Are on the counter—again—I’m starting to wonderif you might haveleft them to say,Cut out a place for…
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Which Table Do You Remember?
Was it a repurposed tablesomeone made out of a door?Was it the time I asked my grandfatherwhy he made a…
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Life’s Stage
This one window stages the little girl two doors down, alonein the grass with a purple-casted hand and a pink…