9 Months In
July 8th, 2024
For months on end
My heart bleeding prose
Lyrics and phrases pushing their way
Through the cracks in my facade
Miriam Roskind
December 18, 2024
Tag: fear
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The Bibas Family Haiku Project
The characters will be a mother (Imma) and her two young sons in honor of the mother Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel, brutally ripped from their home in Israel and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists where they have been held apart from their father Yarden Bibas (also a hostage) in the labyrinthine tunnels of Gaza since 7 October 2023 and continuing.
Jessica Ursell
November 27, 2024
Writing from home
The Fears We Face – Iranian Threats on Erev Shabbat*
Threats are heavy
Anxiety is thick
And the sky is a perfect bright blue
that reminds me uncomfortably of
that Tuesday morning
Fear permeates the steady, warm breeze
As thick grey plumes of destruction
Ring out
Rachel Weinstein
August 12, 2024
Reverberations of October 7th: Musings of an American Jew on the Fourth of July
the July 4th rat a tat tat
fireworks finale sounds
no holiday hotdogs here
only a fusillade of bullets
our porch door
creaking
no longer a sign
of lazy summer
now suspicion
is all it brings
Jessica Ursell
August 7, 2024