It’s hard to catch your breath when your breath is not yours at all but rather, breathed into anew ad infinitum nostrils inflated spun into nothingness by G-d’s gyroscopic pottery wheel Like little stick figures…
Browsing Category Finding Direction
What Do You See?
When you look at me now you will see too much extra weight. Puffy everything, unnaturally so, gained in very rapid succession. Can you also see the pain? the sleepless nights that have now become a…
Finding Her Voice
When he bared her body She thought the world saw her nakedness; When she finally found her voice She believed that exposing her soul Could cover her again. Instead, she felt guilt For her husband…
Cheated Out Of Pain
I feel cheated. I’m back at my obsession. Finding the darkest most twisted stories I can and finding myself in them. I don’t relate as I didn’t have that happen to me. But I know…
A Jewish Girl In An American War
The world outside has lost its mind There’s nothing wrong with me And though my dad is going mad I’m only getting free Everybody’s talking about wrong and right City and country, black and white…
Costumes (Poem)
When I was little Barely babbling At an age before I could possibly have A care in the world My parents said we went To Prince Edward Island On a family trip To see Anne…
This Is The Story Of A Girl
Act 2 The girl sits in the April sun It is the day after the rain and she is drinking in the leftovers The scent of the freshly quenched grass The sound of the birds…
All That I Know
We’re not looking for perfection, just need some direction. a connection, simply some sort of interjection an Insurrection of the life That we used to know All that’s left is the shadow Of the frozen…
Mother Says
I go to bed with wet hair even though you warned me that I would catch a cold. You told me that when you cry for no reason, HaShem would give you something to cry…
Why You Run
You speak in code as though you want me to know but you don’t want to tell me As though you can’t choose between one or the other As though you’re scared to cross over…