Sunday, June 4, 2023

Poetry

An Unbroken Mind

I yearn for a god, A savior, some salvation
Blue Eye by Gianna Goldfarb for Eyes Kept Open by Sophie Kessler

eyes kept open

mikvahs are heavier than a normal jewish ritual. but they’re lighter than death— maybe a certain type of rebirth.
Snow Reflection Hannah Rubenstein for Simply Not Just a Woman

Simply Not Just a Woman

“I am not a poet, I am a woman”
Representation Alex Berman In Which I Try to Explain

IN WHICH I TRY TO EXPLAIN TO MY FATHER WHY IT...

“I AM SO TIRED OF BEING UNSEEN.”
One Size Fits All_Elena Eisenstadt heres what i remember

here’s what i remember

“i wanted to be older. i wanted to be pretty. i thought in order to be either, i had to lose something. this felt like a good place to start.”
We Are the Girls May Lafer-Kirtner girlscalltheshots_danielledeculus

We Are the Girls

“Ask a girl the first time she was afraid”
Books_DanielleDeculus_NotesonReading.

Notes on Reading Addressed to a Stranger

A book is a friend/to the end of the line—
It's a Guy Thing by Ollie Small - photo by Danielle Deculus

It’s a Guy Thing

“god help us all, discrimination is just a guy thing.”
JugglingFire_SonjaLippmann_IAmNotYourNumber

I Am Not Your Number

“We pray to the god you don't want us to believe in”
Sacred Walls by Shayna Schreiber - Photo by Sonja Lippmann

Sacred Walls

“Its Hebrew bitter to my untrained tongue/ And its mysteries swirling in my clueless mind”
Photo Pink Dress by Lydia Miller. A photo of a young girl with short blond hair and a bright pink dress in a field of tall grass with a blue sky.

Feminine for Real

“Clothes have a purpose and it’s not to please you.”
Buzzing Bees by Gabby Marshall - Photo by Hannah Rubenstein

Buzzing Bees

“They gave me a task. A mission./Create a story, they said/That was all it took.”
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