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 even begun.

It’s the mothers at kiddush swapping rumors and news as their sons and husbands are called up, while the children line up for candy and dance hakafot[1] because it’s still Simchat Torah and what else are we supposed to do.

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I and II

“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 grandson is a gingy boy, how gingy boys have a little extra spark, or any of the other comments older Israeli women love to make …

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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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