Tag: Shev Shatzman

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Untitled Passage

8 October, 2023 It’s my daughter yelling “airplane!” in excitement as a fighter jet flies overhead. It’s my little nephew coming home early from shul to put on his uniform and go before the dancing has

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I and II

I October 18, 2023 “Oh, a little gingy boy”, she says softly and I automatically smile and begin to say thank you, sure she is about to tell me how cute gingy boys are, how her

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Untitled Poem

Touch grass, they say.It will ground you.And I’ll listen to them because if someone knows the secret to finding normalcy I want to know it tooAnd so I sit on the grassDrink coke out of a

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