Mother Tongue
“Walking to the shuq to buy tapoocheem, chalav, and lechem from a merchant who didn’t care—” | by Mari Pack, 2020 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
Hebrew
If I started selling candles…
by Abraham Ibn Ezra: If I started selling candles, / the sun would never go down.
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When my Father Died my Forehead Died
by Rivka Miriam: When my father died my forehead died. / At first I didn’t understand the whiteness that spread over it
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[The truth and I are flatmates]
The truth and I are flatmates. Since I moved in before her my room is larger than hers. Since I sleep late and she wakes early we share each day only eight hours, half of them darkness, half light. Some mornings she longs to wake me up, hesitates at the edge of my room while
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