A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community

 

ISSUE THREE: POETRY

FEATURED POET

Deborah Bacharach

Four Poems

Risa Denenberg

Risa Denenberg

 

"Whoever finds our ruins may wonder

how many millennia it took to heal..."

 

 

Gail Newman

Gail Newman

 

"After the war, the man you meet

who wants to marry you gives you a heart..."

 

 

Grey Held

Grey Held

 

"God has given, God has taken away.

Blessed be the name of God..."

 

 

 

Kate Hanson Foster

Kate Hanson Foster

 

"I think I smell the past—my grandmother’s

spoons. Campfire ash...."

 

 

Allison Whittenberg

Allison Whittenberg

 

"Her brown cheeks flushed

maroon body maroon..."

 

 

Ronda Piszk Broatch

Ronda Piszk Broatch

 

"It enters the bones, the invisible women

and men drift home like shadows..."

 

 

 

Naima Hirsch

Naima Hirsch

 

"When She goes to the mikveh,

does She clean her fingernails and behind Her ears?"

 

 

Bruce Black

Bruce Black

 

"We watch for the slightest movement

of air, for the hint of a ripple in the goblet..."

 

 

Roy Bentley

Roy Bentley

 

"I was thinking I wasn’t dead yet and so waved back,

quite-alive, and morning tumbled into place..."