A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Moonlit Mikveh
Bat Ayin, West Bank
Maybe teen girls steal
from the sleeping settlement
to the ancient mikveh
not to immerse for Hashem
not to purify
but to pull the moon
by its lilystems
into the serpents of their spines.
Joy Arbor
Joy Arbor is the author of the chapbook, Where Are You From, Originally? (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poems have won an Academy of American Poets Prize and been published recently in Atlanta Review, Pleiades, and Scoundrel Time. Joy is currently working on a full-length collection exploring the tension between being the granddaughter of a captain in Israel’s War of Independence and being a human rights advocate who has listened to the stories of Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She lives in Davis, California with her husband and son. You can find her online at https://joyarbor.net/.
