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Category Archives: Poetry
Arrangement
"The others say, The oldest hatred I have felt is of loved ones. / The others then can welcome the warmongers to a peaceful home."
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Purim-Shpiel
They say she was wicked and vain, that perhaps she was ugly and ill, with no beauty to show. They say she may not have been a woman at all. And had she danced nude for the king one knows what one would say:that this queen had no shame, she deserved to be cast away.To […]
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Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
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Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
"they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property"
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The pinko commie dyke hires
From Michigan she knows laid off / … she imagines wherever people make appliances / the work breaks their bodies
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Awoken again by the neighbor’s child screaming
“When no one comes, / he and I keep vigil / in the treeless night, / sharing a wall he builds / with his voice”
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The Loss of Little Boy
A poet reflects on the language of war and loss on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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