Three Poems

Anxiety

Don’t Eat That

I Swallowed Tears for You

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In Praise of the Deepest Winter

smoke whirls in the air, great swaths of grey

snatched up in the sharp winter sun, the chilled wind

clawing its way across the brick exterior of the bar

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The Door | My Ancestors Cries

I walk toward I step through the door—

the door.

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Conservation of Momentum

I know it's a sexist thing to say, but women

aren't as good at making music as men…

–Julie Birchill, former NME journalist and author

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To Silence –From Defiance

The silent slip of

My tongue over the

Glassy roof of my

Mouth caught

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Next | Survival

First the toes seize up. We triple in size. Cower behind our blue ox. We fasten our fingers over

our mouths so that they may not find us by our breathing.

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Three Poems

By Israeli-born poet Lee Broda

Acre, Israel

Last Time I Checked, I Was Still an Israeli

My Aleppian Legacy

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He Promises Tomorrow

I try to show him

what it means to touch me

He promises tomorrow,

but tomorrow never comes.

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Imagination's Gift

The zigzag on the Rorschach test

Looked like a zebra --

It was black and white

And sprouted coltish legs.

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To Love A Mermaid

To love a mermaid means to find algae on your shoes. To forgive the smell of seaweed, become averse to sushi, and stop calling your period “shark week”.

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Bird | Recipe for Eggshells

I escape to Yorkshire

try to fathom endearing terms

like love and duck

meant with genuine compassion

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sonnet love affair

I first fell out of love in seventh grade:

130, read out loud, line by line.

This poet could demean and bitch and whine

then call it love.

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She Wakes

She wakes each

morning to song,

willing to let the rain

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One Night You Grew Silent

You said you wanted me

when you turned to face the lamppost.

The snowflakes caught your eyelashes

on the last languid Christmas.

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The Wholly Chalice

I am not sure when or how it all happened,

But lately, my vagina has seemed like a beautiful chalice.

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The Core | Instead of You

I left your body with the same

grooves in my fingernails as you

bitten to the quick

bringing comfort when everything else

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Grape Soda

…I was chipping my new manicure. I was eating all of the grapes with

coffee ice cream. I was a little chubby, but nice.

I was writing poems by the side of the pool,

the blue curtains…

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What We Fell Into

This is what we fell into.

That’s why we take the stairs two at a time, we destroy the surveillance cameras, confiscate all the guns aimed at us, shut off all your alarms, and we speak.

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