A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Winter
—after Paul Celan
Lingering darkness overwhelms sunlight’s meager hours.
Underground tunnels wield misery and malaise.
Yellow leaves resist dropping from wintering trees.
A mother weeps for her kidnapped, redhead babies.
A nor’east wind wails between naked, tangled limbs.
Babies scream for their mother’s empty arms.
The frozen ground welcomes blankets of snow.
A metal shovel tears warm sod to make way for caskets.
Ice-laden birches bend and break.
A tormented father buries his brutalized loved ones.
Laurie Rosen
Laurie Rosen is a lifelong New Englander. Her poetry has appeared in Gyroscope Review, Zig Zag Lit Mag, Oddball Magazine, New Verse News, The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food, One Art, and elsewhere. Laurie won first place in poetry at the 2023 Marblehead, MA Festival of the Arts.
